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REV, DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬ DAY SERMON. _ Subject: “Stinging Annoyances." ! ' 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. ' “ 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 ; f ‘S,\ et sa ys “ Hi/ 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 . ' THE COMMISSIONERS ' j , p IXTVO UNDER TIIE INTER¬ STATE COMMERCE HI EE. 1 M Annoluted and the to® in •• * ‘ 1 «„. w „«hort 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 . ■ j ’ 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 ’ 0 need description. . , 0 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 ' 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 • he found I ipV“ ' —” r <md Cttft, 1 » * jcl n Jesse Thompson & Co MANUFACTURERS OF Doors, Hash, Dlimls Mouldings Brackets, Lumber, Laths, and Shingles. -DEALERS IN TTr W lLlCIOW * ____ VjrlcXSS n adlU.J3tlllQ.v3rS „ J "D,, 4 1 /I rx-nc*’ XJr» Xlcil U. nra W CXl. -ncx t? PLANING MILL AND LUMBBR YARD, Hale Street, near central Railroad Yard, A T "1 <-**1 1 . Georgia. ------------ — r mm m «, f'gLva ULJUJL **^| Cl HHl 'll iKTfiiTIHini ■ TlL *11 m. I keep on hand a good stock of NEW and SECOND¬ HAND GUNS, whico I will sell at the lowest figures. I also keep a good selection of NEW GUN LOCKS, Shells, Wads, Prim31; (Japs, Tubes and Gun Mountings, Loaders And Ejectors’ Tools, Trunk Locks a^d Keys YVill repair Guns and Pistols, Work guaranteed. N extra charge for fitting new locks. If you need anything in niy line call on me before buying elsewhere. JULIUS DORNBLATT. No. 51 Clayton St. ATHENS, Ga. CO ssssssssssss j CO iW ,a Fifty Years the great Remedy ajJU 1
