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REV, DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
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Subject: “Stinging Annoyances." !
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iext: The Lora , Iky God inlt send the
hornet. Deuteronomy vn., 2b.
It seem? as if the insect world were deter
mined to war agains; the human race. It is
every year attacking the grain fields and the
orchards and the vineyards. The Colorado
beetle. the Nebraska grasshopper, the New
Jersey locust, the the universal work which potato destroyer, begun
seem to carry on was
ages ago when the insects buzzed out of Noah’s
ark as the door v.as hornet opened. flies out its mis
In mv text the on
sion. it is a species of wasp, swift in its
motion and violent in its sting. Its touch is
torture to man or beast. Me have all
seen the cattle ran bellowing from the cut of
its lane. t. In boyhood wo used to stand
cautiously looking branch, at lho globular and while nest
huug looking from the tree the wonderful paste-board we j
were at
covering we were struck with something that
sent us shrieking away. The hornet goes in
swarms. It has captains over hundreds, and
twenty produce of certain them attacking death. one The man Persians will | j
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 army was broken
mi and the besieged city was r^cued. This 1
torniig m! noxioib inset. sUn„ o t tto
tuttitesand L ana,-.mu» ^ iroin ineir coujiu y.
What the gleammg sword and chanototwar
could not accomplish was done by the pune
toe of on insect. 1 ho ljorasent the hornet,
My friends, trouhle-g when wcaie^assauitea eat Mb. ny oe- ol
hemoths of and a^ault
trouble we become chi valne, mettled we ste^ f
them. we get on the high
our courage, ant 1 make a cavally charge at
stronger and bettea than Whm we wmtln
But,ahis for these/nsecUie. annoyanc^ annovanoes of ot
We—these foes too sn all to dmot---tho«e
thmgs without any avoirdupois weighb-the
gnats, and the midges, and the flies, and the
wasps, and the
the snia.l stinging a. f
wtach dnve us out and use us up. I . to e
best conditioned lire, foi some giaud ana
glorious purpose, God sends the hornet.
I remark in the first place, that these small
stinging annoyances may come in the shape
of a sensitive nervous organization. People
who are VirnLn prostrated under nloiitv typhoid of svmnathv. fevers or
wH>i hnnis <rrt>
but who pities an vbody that is nervous ! The
u:n-tr oaqri tl'L* familv savs and every
bodvsavs‘Oh' she’s only a little nervous;
that’s all ” The sound of a heavy foot the
harsh clearin'* of a throat, a discord in music, and
a want of harmony between the shawl
the <*love on the same person, a curt answer,
a uasmrt slight the wmd from the east, any
one of ten thousand annoyances, opens th»
’ The fact is,
door for tlie hornet
that the vast majority of the people in
this country are overworked, and their
nerves nre' arc the first to eive out A ureat mul
titode under the strain of Ley-den who,
when he st<«f was told bv his yvhW physician that if he
did not ywirlcinsr he was in such
r poor physical health he would die, responded:
‘Doetor, whether I live or die the wheel must
keep going around.” These persons of whom
I fliis speak have a bleading sensitiveness. The
love to light on anything raw and these
peopleare like the context—they Canaanites spoken have of m
the text or in the a very
thin covering and are vulnerable at all points,
And the Lord sent the hornet.
Again, these small insect annoyances may
come to us in the shape of friends and ao
quaintances ivho are always -^levou CTwing disagree
There are sou
Dy tnese pestiferous domestic annoyances. |
Ino Lord sent the hornet.
These small insect disturbances may also
come in tiie shape of business irritations,
There are men here who went through iso7 bal
and 8ept. 24, 180.*. without unhorsed losing their by little
mice, who are every clerk's day ill blot
annoyances—a manners, or a
01 ink 0.1 a bill Oflaaing, or the extravagance
o- a partner wiio overdraws his account, or
ue underselling bv a business rival, or in
tnu whispering ot businesss confidences
i;i . s * re4 . c 0 > t maxing of some lit-;
tie bad debt which was against your
judgment, just to please somebody else, it is |
hoc. the panics that kill the merchants. Panics
come omy once in ten or twenty years. It is
the constant din of these every-day annoy- !
anees which is sending so many of our best
merchants into nervous dyspepsia and paraly
sis and the grave. When our national com
merce fell fiat on its face, these men stood up
and felt almost defiant; but their life is giving
way now under the swarm of these pestifer
ous annoyances. The Lord sent the hornet.
1 have noticed in the history of some of mill- my :
congregation that their annoyances are
tiplying, and that they have a hundred where
they used to have ten. lho naturalist tells
us that a wasp sometimes has a family ot
twenty thousand wasps, and it does seem as
if every annoyance of your life bred a
m iUion. Bythehelp of God to-day I want
{ 0 s h 0 w you the other side. The hornet is of
no use i <j t yes; The naturalists tell us
they are very important in the world’s
econ oniy; they kill spiders and they clear
tlle atmosphere; and I really believe God
mds the annoyances of our life upon
us to kill the spidersofthe soul and toclear
the atmosphere of our skies. These aimoy
anC es are sent on us, I There think, is to nothing wake us that up
from our lethargy. lively of "yellow
ma kes a man so as a nest
3 i k ts l „ d j think that these annoyances fait
re int( nded world to persuade for us of the in. If that
this is not a us to stop we
had a bed aljd of everything what that would was attractive of
alld soft easy, tiiink we want
heaven , you that the hollow tree
sends t j le hornet, or you think the dovil sends
tJle hornet. I want to correct your opinion,
The Lord sent the hornet.
Then I also think these annoyances come
‘. us to cult ure uprigfit our patience. In the
g ^ mna . siu m 1 you find “ parallel bars
rs with ho es over ea h other forpegs to te
in Then the gymnast takes a inti peg in
each hand and he begins to climb, one at
time, or two inches, hes and, getting the his strength eeUing.
ulturod ’ reac after awhile 2
And it seems to . me that these annoy- __
anees m life are a moral gymnasium, each
worry a peg by higher which wo Christian are to
climb higher and in
attainments. We all love to see patient
but it cannot l)e cultured m fair weather. It
is a child of the storm. If you had everything
desirable and there was nothing more to get,
what would you want with patience? The
only time to culture it is when vou are slan
dered and cheated, and sick and half dead,
“Oh,” you say, “if I only had the circum
stances of some well-to-do man I would be
patient too.” You might as weU say. “If it
were not for this water I would swim; ’or,
“I could shoot this gun if it were not for the
caps.” When you stand chin deep in annoy
anees is tho time for you to swim out toward
the great headlands of Christian attainment,
and when your life is loaded to tho muzzle
with repulsive annoyances—that Nothing but is the furnace time
to draw the trigger. tho
will over burn out of 11 s the clinker and the
slag. I have formed this theory 111 regard to
small annoyances and vexations. It takes : ;
just so much trouble to fit us for usefulness l
and for heaven The only question is,
whether we shaU take it m the bulk, or pul
venzed and granulated. the bulk Here His is one back man
who takes it m is
broken, other awtul or his calamity eyesight.put befalls out, him; or while some
the vast majority 0t people take the thing
piecemeal. Which*way would you rather
can suck honey even out o''a\nettle; and 0
you have the grace of God in your heart,you
can set sweetness out of that which wouM
otherwise irritate and annoy. A returned
missionary told me that a company of ad
venturers death by rowing flies that up the infest Ganges that were region stung al
to
certain seasons. I haves.»n the earth strewed
with the carcasses of men slain by insect an
noyances. The only way to get prepared foi ;
the great troubles of lifo is to conquer tbeet
small troubles. What would you say of t
soldier who refused to load his gun, or to gi .
into the conflict because it was only a skir
mish, saying: “I am not going to ex
pend my ammunition on a skirmish
wait until there comes a general
engagement, and then you will so*
how courageous lam. and what buttling 1
will do!” The General would say to such 1
man: “If you are not faithful in a skirmish,
you would be nothing in a general engage
ment.” And I have to tell you, O Christian
men, Christ's if you cannot apply small the principles will oi
bo religion able on apply a them scale, you large
never to on a
scale.
If I had mv way with you I would hove
you would Tiossesi all possible each worldly garden—a prosperity. river I
have you one a
flowing through and the it, geraniums and flowers and shrubs beauti- on
the sides, grass as
till ns though the rainbow h.-ul fallen. Iwould
have should you a be bouse, covered a splendid with upholstery mansion, and dipped the
bed
in tho setting sun. I would have every
hall in your house set with statues and
statuettes, and then I would have the four
quarter of the globe pour in all their luxuries
on your tabte, and you should kaveforks of
silver and knives' of gold, inlaid with
diamonds and amethysts. Then you should
each one of you liavo the finest horses, anti
your pick of the equipages of the world.
Then I would have you live a hundred
and fifty years, and you should not
have a pain or ache until tho last breath.
“Not each one of us?” you say. Yes
each one of you. “Not to your enemies?”
Yes; the only difference Iwould make with
them would be that I would put a little extra
gilt on their walls, and a little extraembroid
cry on their slippers. But you say: “Why Ah!
does not God give us all these things?
I bethink myself. Ho is wiser. It would
make fools and sluggards of us if wo had our
way. No man puts his best picture in the
portico or vestibule of his house. God meant
this world to be only the vestibule of heaven,
that great gallery of tho universe toward
which we are aspiring. Wo must not have
” it tmml i’n ln tbls flii^ world, world or or we we would would want want
Ilo h( ’ av en -
Polycart > was condemned to be burnt to
death. The stake w-as planted. Ho was fust
ened to it The faggots were placed around
him, the flames the nres kindled, outward but like history tells us of that
bent 1 he canvas a
ship stead m a stout destroying breeze, Polycarp, so that the flames, only in
of were a
wall between him and his enemies. They bad
actually to destroy him with Well, the poniard; hearer, the
flames would not touch luin. my
1 want you to understand that by Gods
grace the flames of trial, instead of consvun
mg your soul, are only going to be a waU of
defense, and fulfill a canopy the of blessing. blessing and God the is
going to to you
promise, as He did to Polycarp. When thou
walkest through the fire thou shalt not be
burned.” Now hereafter. you do not In understand; wifi yon
shall know heaven you
bless God even for the hornet.
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A NOirni n.uti ..f (Vntral vta. a Africa »■
Emin Bey is the man to whose rescue
Stanley has gone with sUarge outfit. It
° the Chicago
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that so little is know n wn not of the tlie Iormcr former .up
of a man who has really accomplished so
nluc h. Former accounts speak of Ermu
B a German soldier, but he
• , * jk 1^ n PV ond this—and of
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THE COMMISSIONERS '
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STATE COMMERCE HI EE.
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to® in •• * ‘
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sketches <>t , ™ 1 J *‘ir V . ....
Tb nresidont lias appointed the foi- 1 j
l ow i„ r i nter ‘ st*ite ‘ ' commerce commission
ir , f Michinan for
ers: .’nomas M. Aooiey, 01 Jin iu„ ,
a ter*of six years; William K. Morrison,
’ of Illinois , five years; Augustus Schoen- Aldnee
0 f v.. w York ' four years-
1 uttlKCl, 01 , v V crmoin, . ', im 1 , 1 v(1<irs .
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Will t Jr L. Bragg, of Alabama, two years,
Ski'icufs f ok tiif COMMISSION. ' j
Tht fact that Mr. Cooley’s name heads
the li’t does not necessarily indicate that
lm w A be ' chairman of the commission,
it T toUst elect , , its .. own elviirmun cn.urmu i. Tlie
follow ng is a sketch ot tlie public cauH*is .....
of the men composing Morrison, the whose commission, public
excel) ' •* mir Mr
u ” alt known us to
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need description. .
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ThtnasM. Cooley was born at Attica,
v y j,, lg24 *’ studied law in that state
7*' -met 1 AtnoveU 1 j to Mulugun in in 184:1 184d, where wntn
he has sincy resuteu. in foot i-c wa
elected Ci>mj***®r Of the state laws and 111
1800 r< portef of the supreme court. In
jggg ; . was chosen by the regents as
. i,„ 1 „rtonr‘riini ; '1 7 <«tlmlaivdeDnrt
ment j»f the uiflvermty , of Michigan mid
! he has ever sinco b*peii connected ^ itli it.
In 1864 he '’, was JecHcd i. justice of tho su
i*reme . ^lourt t and d LAOS y M le u -olc ( -tc-<l in 180!) ™
and in£1877, he was nomuuti }
republicans for re-election in 1885, and
was »tri/ird deb ated. He is author of a number
() >1 f « * Jpid.jra le^al legal works worKS lie 11 ; was w a recent
Jy appointed by United hlat. s railroad Judge
.Gresham receiver ot the Wabash
company. F. Walker is Vermont lawyer,
Aldnee a
aboutIfiorty-four pofvpes’ years ohl, a with republican
in who studied law Sciui
tor Edt huds. lie served as colonel in the
union nsuiy and lias since been practicing
law at Midland. In tlie Vermont senate
helms i taken a leading part in framing
legislation to solve tJio railway the jiroblem,
and Las given much study to q ues
tiou. ;
Au|gustus Shoemaker, of Kingston, N.
Y., \vas born in Ulster county, N.
March a, 1828, and is a lawyer in active
pract ure. He lias always been a democrat
in pol itiifc. He has been judge of bis
county, and candidate of his party for
supreme! court judge. Tildon’s He was a state
senator Governor term as
»" r \i d was one of the leaders in
,p Ifo always close ,
the hj, i‘'aH’ re. was a
perso* -land political friend ol Mr. Iil
den. 2f. Shoemaker was attorney aen*
f • Y ork state in 1878 an.) ’79,
« , Vi . '^. p • Mld the present
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lctul g ,et,ir r y » ,,f f ‘he t treasury, t easnr V I in n 188fi 1880
Rented - by tho. anti-Tammany
! ‘« \ t1o,vfroniNewYork,iuthedcmo
d kl CEa h
v L ye l tion u in !87S ° and in
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he found I ipV“ ' —” r <md Cttft, 1
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