The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-12-09

In Christian attainment. Wo all love 10
see patience, but it cannot be cultivated
In fair weather. Patience Is child OF the
storm. II you had everything desirable
and there was nothing more to get, what
would you want with patience? The only
time to cultivate it Is when you are lied
about and sick and half dead.
oh" you say. 'if only had the cir.
clmstances OF some weil to DO man would
be pat ant too.'' You might rs we'll say,
"If ID we're not for this water, would
SWIM" or. "I could shoot this gun II it
were not for the cartridge" When you
stand chin deep in annoyances Is the time
for YOU to swim out toward the great
headlands OF Christian attainment, so as
to "know Christ and the power OF His re-
surrcction and to have fellowship with His
aNothine but the furnace will ever bum
out OF US the c]lrker and the Stag. l have
formed this theory In regard to smai
annoyances and vexarions. It takes just
so much trouble to fit US for usefulness
and for heaven. The only question Is
whether we shall take 1t In the bulk or
pulyerized and graduated. Here is one
man who takes 1t In the bulk. His back Is
broken or his eyesight put out. or some
other awful calamity Details him, while the
| vast majority of people take the thing
piecemeaI. Which way would you rather
| have it? OF course, In piecemeal Better
| have five aching teeth than one broken
| Jaw, better ten fly blisters than an nmpu-
| tation, better twenty squalls than one
| cyclone. There may be difference OF
| opinion as to allopathy and homG-
| pathy, but in this manner Oh troupie
| / like homeopathic doses. small pellets
VI annoyance ratner tnan some Knock.
| down dose of calamity. Instead OF
the thunderbolt give US the hornet. Ii
| you have bank, you would great. deal
rather til at fifty men would come In WITH
checks less than 300 than to have two de-
positors cone in the same day, each want
| ing his 900. In this latter case you
cough and look down to the floor and you
look up to the ceiling before you look into
the safe. Now, my friends, would you not
| rather have these small drafts OF annoy
ance on your bank of faith than some oil
staggering demand upon your endurance!
| But remember that little as we'll as great
annoyances equally require you to trust In
| Christ for succor and for'deliyerance from
impatience and irritability. Thou wilt
keep him In perfect peace whose nAnd IL
staid on Thee"
Igo into sculptor's studio and see him
shaping statue. He has a chisei In ona
hand and mallet in the other, and ne
gives a very gentle stroke-click. ciick,
click! say, "Why don't you strike hare-
err" ooh" he replies, "that would shat
ter the statue. I can't do 1t that way.
must do 1t this way" So he works on. and
after awhile the features come out, and
everybody that enters the studio Is
charmed and fascinated. Well, Goo mas
your soul under process OF development,
and it is the little annoyances and vexa-
tions OF life that are chiseling out your
immortal nature. 1t is click, Click, clickl
| wonder why some great providence does
pot come and with one stroke prepare you
for heaven. All, mol God says that is not
the way, and 80 He keeps on by strokes oil
| t;eklo at Qsf 9hail be q
glad spectacle for angels and for men.
You know that large fortune may be
spent in small change. and vast amount
OF moral character may 60 away in sn1ah
depletions. 1t Is the little troubles OF life
that are having more effect upon you than
great ones. A swarm OF locusts will kill a
grain-fleld sooner than the incursion OF
three or four cattle. You say, "Since lost
my child, since lost my property, nave
been different man." But you do not rec
ognize the architecture OF little annoy
ances that are hewing, digging, cutting,
shaping, splitting and interjolning your
moral qualities. Rats may sink ship. One
lucifer match may send destruction through
a block of storehouses. Catherine de- Me-
dici got her death from smelling poison
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