Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 October 1899 — Page 8

OUR MINOR TROUBLES 3 Sermon by Dr. Talmage on Small Annoyances. _ Be Sir* It le These Which Teat Christian Fertitnde and Patience— The licssea of Trivial Irritations. Copyright, 1899, by Louis Klopsch. Washington, Oct. & This sermon by Dr. Talmage deals with a subject which bppeals to all classes and conditions of men. His text is Bieuteronomy 7:20, “The Lord thy God will send the hornet.” ^ It seems as if the insectile world were determined to extirpate the human race. It bombards the grainlields and the orchards and the vineyards. The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska grasshopper, the New Jersey locust, the universal potato beetle, seem to carry on the work which was begun ages ago when tlxe inseets buzzed out of Noah's ark as the door was opened. In my text the hornet flies out on its mission. It is a species of wasp, swift in its motion and violent in its sting. Its touch is torture to man or beast. We have all seen the cattle run bellowing under the cut of its lancet. In boyhood we used to stand cautiously looking at the globular nest hung from the tree branch, and while we were looking St the wonderful covering we .were struck with something that' sent us shrieking away,. The hornet goes in swarms. It has captains over hundreds. and 20 of them alighting on one man will produce certain death. The Persians attempted to conquer a Christian city, but the elephants and the beasts on which the Persians rode were assaulted by the. hornet, so that the whole arm}’ was broken up, and the besieged city was rescued. This burning and noxious insect stung out the Hittites and the Canaanites from their country. What gleaming sword and chariot of war could not accomplish was done by the puncture of an insect. ‘‘The Lord sent the hornet.”. My friends, when we are assaulted by great behemoths of trouble we be-' come ehivalric and we assault them. We get on the high mettled steed of our courage, and we make a cavalry charge at them, and if God be with us we come out stronger and better than

when we went in. tint alas tor these ^insectile annoyances of life, these foes too small to shoot, these thing's without any avoirdupois weight, the gnats and the midges and the flies and the wasps and the hornets! In other words, it is the small stinging annoyances of our life which drive us out and use us up. JLp the best conditioned life foe some grand and glorious purpose God has sent the hornet. I remark, in the first place, that these small stinging annoyances may come in the shape of a nervous organisation. People who are prostrate^ under typhoitl fevers or with broken bones get plenty of sympathy, but who pities anybody that is nervous? The doctors say and the family say and everybody says: “Oh, she’s only a little nervous; that’s all!” The souifd of a heavy foot, the harsh clearing of a throat, a diseord in music, a want of harmony between .the shawl, and the glove on the same person, a curt answer, a passing slight, the wind from the east, any one of ten thousand annoyances, opens the door for the hornet. The fact is that the vast majority of the people in this country are overworked, and their jterves are the first to give out. A great ■multitude are under the strain of Leyden who, when he was told by his physician that if he did not stop working while he was in such poor physical health he would •die, responded; “Doctor, whether I live or die, the wheel must keep going round.” These sensitive persons of ■whom I speak have a bleeding sensitiveness. The flies love to light on anything raw, and these people are like the Canaanites spoken of in the text or in the contex—they have a very thin •covering and are vulnerable at §11 points. “And the Lord sent the hornet.” Again, the small insect annoyances may come to ns in the shape of friends and acquaintances who are always saying disagreeable things. There are some people you cannot be with for half an hour but you feel cheered and comforted. Then there are other people von cannot be with for five minutes before you feel miserable. They do not mean to disturb you, but. they sting you

Id the bone. They gather up all the yarn which the gossips spin and retail it. They gather up all the adverse crit- - Seisms about your person, about your business, about your home, about your •church, and they make your ear the funnel into which they pour it. They 3augh heartily when they tell you, as though it were a good joke, and you laugh, too—outside. «. These people are brought to our attention in the Bible, in the book of Ruth. Naomi went forth beautiful and ..with the finest worldly prospects into . another land, but after -awhile she came back widowed and sick and poor. „ What did her friends do when she came to the city? They all went out, and instead of giving her common sense consolation, what .did they do? Read th^ book of Ruth and find out. They threw up their hands and said: ‘Tsthis Tfaomi?" as much as to say: “How awful bad you do look!” When 1 entered the ministry, I looked very pale for years, and every year, for four or fire years, many times a year I was asked if I had not consumption, and, passing through the room. 1 would eometimes hear people sigh and say: “A-sih. not long for this world!” lre-t eolved in those times that I never it) a ay conversation would say anything depressing, and by the help of God I have kept the resolution. These people of irljom I speak reap and bind in the great harvest field of discouragement, Some day you greet them with « hilarious “Good morning,” and they — •cut buzzing at you with some denreas

-X— III. tag information. “The Lord sent the hornet.” * These small insect disturbances may also come in the shape of business irritations. There are men here who went through the 24th of September, 1S69, and the panics of 1873 and of 1893 without losing.their balance who are every day unhorsed by little annoyances—a ; clerk’s ill manners, or a blot of ink cm j a bill of lading, or the extravagance of a partner who overdraws his account, or the whispering of store confidences in the street, or the making of seme little bad debt which was against your judgment; but you wanted to please somebody else. It is not the panics that kill the merchants. Panics come only once In ten or 20 years. It is the constant din of these ereryday annoyanees which is sending so many of our best merchants into nervous dyspepsia and paralysis and the grave. When our national commerce fell flat on its face, these men stood up aud felt almost defiant, hut their life is going away now under the sw arm of these pestiferous annoyances. “The Lord sent the hornet.” 1 have noticed in the history of some of my congregation that their annoy- j ances are multiplying and that they | have a hundred where they used to have j ten. The naturalist tells us that a wasp J sometimes has a family of 20,000 wasps, and it does seem as if every annoyance of your life brooded a million. i>y the help of God, to-day 1 want to show you the other side. The hornet ispf no use? Oh, yesh The naturalist tails us they are very important in the world's economy. They kill spiders, and they clear the atmosphere. And 1 really believe God sends the annoyances of our life upon us to kill the spiders of the soul and to'clear the atmosphere of our skies. , , These annoyances are seut on us, I think, to wake us from our lethargy. There is .nothing that makes a man so lively as a nest of “yellow jackets,” and I think that these annoyances are intended to persuade us of the fact that this is not a world for us to stop in. If we had a bed of everything that was attractive and soft and easy, what would we want of Heaven? We think that the hollow tree sends the hornet, or we may think that the devil sends the hprnet. 1 want to correct your opinion. “The Lord sent the hornet.”

“Oh,” you say, “if I only had the circumstances of some well tb do man 1 would lie patient, too.” You might as well say: “If it were not for this water,' 1 would swim,” or, “1 could shoot this gun if it were not for the cartridge.” Whenyou 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 resurrection and to have fellowship with his sufferings.” Nothing but the furnace will ever burn out of us the clinker and the slag. 1 have formed this theory in regard to small annoyances aud vexations. It takes just so much trouble to fit us for usefulness and for Heaven, The only question is whether we shall take it in the bulk or pulverized and granulated. Here is one man who takes it in the bulk. His back is broken or his eyesight put out, or some other awful calamity befalls him. while the vast majority of people take the thing piecemeal. Which way would you rather have it? Of course, in piecemeal. Bette# have five aching teeth than one broken jaw; better ten fly blisters than an amputation; better 20 squalls than one cyclone. There may be a difference of opinion sis to allopathy and homeopathy, but in this matter of trouble 1 like homeopathic doses, small pellets of annoyance rather than some knockdown dose of calamity. Instead of the thunderbolt give us the hornet. If you have a bank, yop would a great deal rather that 50 meir would come in with checks less than $100 than to have two depositors come in the same day, each wanting his $10,000. 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 annoyance on your bank of faith than some all staggering demand upon your endurance? But remember that little as well as great annoyances equally require you to trust in Christ for succor and for deliverance from impatience and;irritability. “Thou wilt keep him iii perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.”

In the village of Hamelin, tradition sajs, there was an invasion of rats, and these small creatures almost devoured the town and threatened the lives of the population; and the story is that a piper came out one day and played a very sweet tune, and all the vermin followed him, followed him to the banks of the Weser, and then he blew a blast, and they dropped in and disappeared forever. Of course, this is a fable, but 1 wish l could on the sweet flute of the Gospel draw forth all the nibbling and burrowing annoyances of your life and play them down into the depths forever. How many touches did Mr. Church give to his picture of “Cotopaxi” or his “Heart of the Andes?” 1 suppose about 50,000 touches. 1 hear the canvas saying: “Why do you keep me trembling with that pencil so long? Why don't you put it on in one dash ?” “No,” says Mr. Church; “I know how to make a painting. It will take 50,000 of these touches.” And I want you, my friends, to understand that it is these ten thousand annoyances which, under God. are making up the picture of your life, to be hung at last in the gallleries of Heaven, fit for angels to look at. God knows how to make a picture. I go into a sculptor’s studio and see him shaping a statue. He has a chisel in one hand and a mallet in the other, and he gives a ?ery gent le stroke—click, click, click! I say: “Why don’t you strike harder?” “Ob,” he replies, “that would shatter the statue. I can’t do it that way. I must do it this way;" So he works on, and after awhile the teai twee come out, and everybody thaten

ten the studio is charmed aud tus cinated. Well, God has .your soul under process of development, and it is the little annoyances and vexations of life that are chiseling out your immortal j nature. It Is ctick, click, click! 1 wonder why some great Providence does not come and with one stroke prepare you for Heaven. Ah, no! God says that is not the way, and so He keeps on by strokes of little vexations until at last you shall be a glad spectacle for angels ( and for men. You know that a large fortune may be spent in small change, and a vast umount of moral character jphy go away in small depletions. Itisrae little troubles of life that are having more effect upon yon than great ones. A j swarm of locusts will kill a grain field sooner than the incursion of three or j four cattle. You say: “Since 1 lost j any chikjL/since 1 lost my property, 1, have b^jfh a different man.” Cut you j do not recognize the architecture of lit- j tie annoyances that are hewing, dig- j ging. cutting, shaping, splitting and interjoining vour moral qualities, llats may sink a ship. One lucifer match raav send destruction through a block of i storehouses. Catherine de. Medici got i her death from smelling a poisonous i rose. Columbus, by stopping and ask- i iug for a piece of bread aud a drink I of water at a Franciscan convent, was led to the discpvery of a new world. And there is an intimate connection between trifles and immensities, between nothings andy very things. Now, be careful to let none of these annoyances go through your soul unaiv rnigned. Compel them to administer to your spiritual wealth. The scratch of a sixpenny nail sometimes produces lockjaw, and the clip of a most infinitesimal annoyance may damage you forever. Do not let any annoyance or perplexity come across your soul without its making you better. Our national government when it | wanted money did not think it belittling to put a tax on pins and a tax on buckles and a tax on'shoes. The individual taxes did not amount to much, but in the aggregate to millions and millions of, dollars. And I would have you, O Christian man, put a high tariff on every annoyance *pd vexation that comes through your soul. This might not amount to much in single cases, but in the aggregate it would be a great

revenue of spiritual strength and satisfaction. A bee can suck honey even out of a nettle, and if you have the grace of God in your heart you can get sweetness out of that which would otherwise irritate and annoy. A returned missionary fold me that a company of adventurers rowing up the Gauges were stung to death by flies ^hat infest that region at certain seasons.^ The earth has been strewn with the carcasses of men slain by insect annoyances. The only way to get prepared for the great troubles of life is to conquer these small troubles. What would .you say of a soldier who refused to load his gun or to go into the conflict, because it was only a skirmish, saying: “1 am not going to expend my ammunition on a skirmish. Wait until there comes a genenfi engagement, and then you will see how courageous I am and what battling 1 will do?” The general would say to such a man: “If you are not faithful in a skirmish, you would be nothing in a general engagement.” 4ind I have to tell you, O Christian men, if you cannot apply the principles of Christ’s religiou on a small scale you will never be able to apply them on a larger scale'. If I had ray way with you, 1 would have you possess all possible worldly prosperity. I would have you each one a garden, a river flowing through it, geraniums and shrubs on the sides and the grass and flowers as beautiful as though the rainbow had fallen. 1 would have you a house, a splendid mansion, and the beds should be covered with upholstery dipped in the setting sun. I would have every hall in your house set with statues and statuettes, and then I would have the four quarters of the globe pour in all their luxuries on your table, and you should have forks of silver and knives of gold, inlaid with diamonds and amethysts. Then you should each one of you have the finest horses and your pick of the quipages of the world. Then 1 would have you live 150 years, and you should not have n pain or an ache until the last breath.

Not each one of us?” you say. Yes, each one of you. “Not to your enemies?” Yes. The only difference 1 would make with them would be that I would put a little extra gilt on their walls and a little extra embroidery on their slippers. But, you say: “Why does not God give us all these things?” Ah! I bethink myself. He is wiser. It would make fools and sluggards of us if we had our way. No man puts his best picture in the portieo or vestibule of Ids house. God meant this world to be only the vestibule of Heaven, that great gallery of the universe toward which we are aspiring. We must not have it too good in this world, or we would want np Heaven. ^ Polyearp was condemned to be burned to death. The stake was planted. He was fastened to it. The "fagots were placed around him, the tires kindled, but history tells us t^at the flames bent outward like the <^anvas of a ship in a stout breeze, so that the flames, instead of destroying Polj'carp, were only a wall between him and his enemies. They had actually to destroy him with the poniard. The flames would not touph him. Well, my hearer, I want you to understand that by God’s grace the flames of trial, instead o^gpnsuming your soul, are only going to be a wall of defense and a canopy of blessing. God is going to fulfill to you tb* blessings and the promises, as He dift to Polycarp. “When thou walkest through the fire, though shalt not be burned.’* Now you do not understand, but you shall know hereafter. In Henveit you will bless God even for the hornet. Fiction and friction are common a*> the literary clubs.—Chicago Disnatch.

Ill HI'S II OTfejlMiiL 9>iwi>fc wwgwt r The Admiral Will Accept a Home in Washington as a Gift From the People. * CHOICE AS TO IQCITION EXPRESSED. Tfc* Committee Will la\ Ite Tender* From Owner* of Eligible Real* team, and on the Admiral** Retarn From Vermont Will Submit Them to H|* Inspection. Washington, Oct. 7.—Admiral Dewey lias elected to accept a house m Washington, already constructed, instead of having one built for his occupancy. In accordance with the invitation of the committee which has had in charge the Dewey Home work, he called at the office of Acting Secretary Allen, in the navy department, to indicate his preferences in the matter of a residence. There were present, besides Mr. Alien, Assistant Secretary Vanderlip, Assistant Postmaster-General Heath and Gen. Corbin. Officially Informed. The Admiral w&s officially informed of the purpose of the peoole of the United States to present him with a home in 'Washington. He frankly expressed his gratification at the tender, which he immediately accepted. Ha said, had the proposed home been the gift of a few wealthy men, he should feel indisposed to accept it. But he noted that the fund had over 43,000 subscribers, indicating that the home was to be really the gift of the American people, and as sueh he would accept it with as much pleasure as he had the sword bestowed upon him by

congress. Am to the Location. He then talked upon the location of the residence. The admiral showed a decide preference for the section in which he made his home during. Mi former details of duty in Washington. He wished the house to .be located in the northwest section, somewhere west of Sixteenth street, and not too far north, thus indicating the neighborhood of his former resilience and the clubs where he had spent a good deal of his leisure time.. The Admiral's Wishes. First of all, he wanted the house at the earliest possible moment, so that he might “go in anti hung up his hat at once,” as he put it. Of course that precluded the idea of erecting a house to meet his special needs. He ex-1 pressed his ideas as the character of the home he desires, and asked that the house be modest enough in appointments and cost to permit of the retention of a sufficient sum of money from the purchase fund, to defray the expense of furnishing it. All Cam be Complied With. The committee listened attentively to all of these wishes, and saw no reasor why eaeh and all could not be ratified. The admiral ingoing to New York, and will stop over, if he can, to see the yacht race on his way to Shelburne Farms, Yt. He expects to return to Washington in the course of a week. Meanwhile, the bouse committee having invited written proposals of properties, will go through the list carefully, and hope to be able to present to the admiral on his return as many as half a dozen available houses from which he may make a personal selection. Extent of the Pond. The fund at the disposal of the committee now amounts to about $50,000, and it is earnestly desired that this sum may be substantially increased during the time remaining before the purchase.

SENT BY DEWEY’S ADVICE, 'Want* Airuinaldo to Know that He Favor* the Complete Subjection of tlft Insurrection. Washington, Oct. 7.—“1 want Aguinaldo and the Filipino insurgents to know that it was at my request that President McKinley has ordered the naval re-enforcements to ot*r Asiatic squadron, now stationed at Manila;” Admiral Dewey made this significant remark to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Allen at the navy department yesterday morning, and be added: ult is reported that I have been in favor of .giving the Filipinos their independence. Aguinaldo has, i believe, circulated this report among the insurgents, and I, therefore, particularly desire that in sending out the orders to the Brooklyn and the other ships that are to go to the Philippines, the instructions shall be accompanied by the statement that they were sent at my request.” > ' Secretary Allen • said that the admiral's request would be granted at once. Gen. Corbin, who was present, said that he would see to it that a similar statement would be made to the general in command of the United States forces in the Philippines. Proposal* Were Accepted. Caracas, Venezuela, Oct. 7.—Senator Matos, an envoy from President Andrade to the insurgent commander, Gen. Cipriano Castro, to negotiate terms of peace, arrived yesterday morning at Puerto Cabello, coming from Valencia, to confer with Gen. Castro. Last evening he reached La Gu&yara, and left immediately for Caracas, to report the result of uis mission to the president. It is said here, that the proposals submitted by the envoy were accepted by Gen. Castro.

PLEASED THE DRIVER. Tke Stoat Lad? Was Less a Burdea to miss When Sk« Was Least OkllgUf. One of the most delightful women in New York is one who discarded her waist line years ago. She is built on the order of the tub, but she has a genial and accommodate jng disposition and laughs heartily when she tens this story on herself: She had been to the Catskills for a few weeks, staying at one of those mountain top houses that it takes you four hours to drive up to and half an hour to come down from. She was met at the nearest railway station,; she and half a dosen others, by a stage that Set off up the mountain road. It was hot and« the stout lady had a kind heart. She pitied the horses and as the road grew steeper she volunteered to get out and walk. The driver helped her down and she trudged along aa far as she could. Then ishe was helped into the stage again and at the next steep grade she insisted on being helped out. She had' returned to the carriage another time, when they came to-a still steeper stretch of roadway. The stout lady was just too tired to walk another step. ' " Welt,” she said, “I’m not going to get out again. I’m too tired.” The driver turned to her with a look of gratitude. “That’s all right,” he said. “Set still. I’d a lot rather haul you than heft you in and ! out so often.” And he “hauled” her to the very steps of the hotel.—N. Y. Sun. * Of all the delegates that I met at that Christian Endeavor convention,” said Dr. Hill, “I liked hint the'best who, on being asked what his business was, said: “I am a cheer-up-odist.' "—Success.

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