Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-10-14
play them down into the depths for


$4,000 touches. ] hear the canvas say
Ing: "why DO you keep me trembling
with that pencil so long? Why don't
YOU put Il on In one dash?" NO. says
Mr.. Church: II know how 90 make q
painting. II wiz take $4,000 OF these
touches" And want yon. my friends.
20 understand that IL is these ten thou
sand annoyaaccs which. under God. are
making up the picture OF your life, 20
ne hung at last In the galleries OF
Heaven. ft for angels TO look at. God
knows how 20 make picture.
I go into a sculptor's studio and see
lin shaping a statue. lie has ehiset
in one hand ard a mallet in the other.
and he gives n very gentle stroke-click.
click. click, I say: "why don't you
strike harder?" "Oh." he replies. that
would khatter the statue. can't do II
hat way must do IL this way" So
he works on, and after awhile the fea-
lures come out. and everybody that en-
PRS the studio "a charmed and fas-
linated. Well. God has your soul under
Nroccss Of development, and IL Is the
nttle anuoyanccs and vexations Of life
that are chiseling out your immortal
nature. II is click. click. click! won-
der why some great Providence does
not come and with one stroke prepare
YOU for Heaven. All no, God says that
Is not the way. and 30 lie keeps on by
strokes Of little veNntions until at last
You shall be a glad spectacle for angels
and for men.
You know that a large fortune may
/ bc spent In small change. and vast
/ amount Of moral character may go
away i'm small depletions. lei the little
| troubles of life that are having more
effect upon you than great ones. a
swarm of locusts viii Kill a grain field
sooner than the incursion OF three or
four cattle. You say: since / lost
my child. since I lost my property.
J have been a different man." But YOU
do not recognize the architecture Of lit
lie annoyances that are hcwing. dig
ging. cutting. shaping. splitting and
inter joining your moral qualities. Rats
may sink ship. One lucifer match may
send destruction through block of
storchouses. Catherine de Medici got
her death from smelling a poisonous
rose. Columbus. by stopping and ask
ing for piece of bread and drink
OF water at Franciscan convent. was
led 10 the discovery of a new world
Ard there is an intimate connection be
tween trihes and immensi;ies. between
nothiEgs and everythings.
Now. be careful 70 let none Of these
annoyanccs 20 through your soul unar
raigned. Compel them 20 administer tc
, your spiritual wealth. The scratch Of q
siNpenny nail sometimes produces lock
jaw. and the clip OF a most infinitesima
? annoyance may damage YOU forever
DO not let any annoyance or perpleN Nitl
10 come across your soul without Its max
I ] ing YOU better.
S Our national government when 4
+. wanted money did not think il belit
5 Ting To put a tax on pins and tal
- on buckles and faX on shoes. The in
5 dividual taxes did not amount 10 much
but in the aggregate 10 millions an'
i millions of dollars. And l would hav
e YOU. o Christian man. put a high tarii
e on every annoyance and veNation thn
comes through your soul. This Nigh
n not amount 10 much in single cases
?. but In the aggregate il would be grea
o revenue of spiritual strength and sat
Il isfaction. \ bee can suck honey eve
II out OF a nettle, and il you have tho grac
" of God in your heart you can get swee
in ness out of that which would Othel
d. wise irritate and annoy.
le returned missionary told me ths
e. a company of adventurers rowing u
vi the Ganges were stung to death b
a. flies that infest that region at certai
G. seasons. The earth has been strew
er with the carcasses of men slain by &
q sect annoyances. The only way 10 &
ne prepared for the great troubles of Ia
an is 10 conquer these small trouble
an What would you say OF soldier WI
ce refused 10 load his gun or 10 go in
o. the conflict because il was only a SKI
mish, saying; Il am not going 10 e
It's ! pend my ammunition on a skiTmis
* Wait until there comes n general c
he gagement, and then you viii see hc
on courageous I am and what battling
.al will do?" The general would say
th such n man: eff you are not faithf
wo in a skirmish. you would be nothii
eh in a general engagement" And ha
,se 10 tell YOU, o Christian men, il y
,or cannot apply the principles OF Chris
IRE religion on a small scale you win neN
dis. be able 10 apply them on a larger sea
ALI If l had my way with you, l woI
of have you possess all possible work
nd ! prosperity. 1 would have you each @
Der a garden, a river flowing through
ces geraniums and shrubs on the sides n
for the grass and flowers as beautiful
pa- though the rainbow had fallen. woS
zen have you house, a splendid mansi'
"A and the beds should be covered W
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