Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-12-21


Again, the small insect annoyances may
come TO us In the shape Of friends and ac-
quaintanccs who are always saying dis
agreeable things. There are some people
you cannot he with for half an hour but
you feel chccrcd and comfortcd. Then
there are other people you cannot he with
for five minutes before you feel miserable.
They do not mean 10 disturb you. but they
sting you to the bone. They gather up all
the yarn which the gossips spin and retail
IL. They gather up all the adverse criti-
cisms about your person, about your busi-
ness. about your home, about your church,
and they make your ear the funnel into
which they pour 1t. They laugh heartily
when they tell you. ms though IL were
good joke, and you laugh too-outside.
These people arc brought to our atten-
ton in the Bible. In the book of Ruth.
Naomi went forth beautiful and with the
finest Of worldly prospects. and Into anoth-
CT land, but, after awhile, she came back
widowed and sick and poor. What did her
friends do when she came tn the city?
They all went out. and instead of giving
her common sense consolation, what did
they do: Read the book of Ruth and fird
out. They threw up their hands and said,
'How awful bad you do look When
entered the ministry, looked very pale for
years, and every year, for four or five years,
hundred times year was asked IL
had not the consumption and passing
through the room would sometimes hear
people sigh and say, "A-ah not long for
Afis world" ! resolved In those times that
/ never in any conversation would say any
thing depressing and by the helm Of God
| have kept the resolution. These people
Of whom ! speak reap and bind in the
great harvest field Of encouragement.
Some day you greet them with hilari
Gus good morning" and they come buz-
zing at yOu with some depressing informa-
tion. THE Lord sent the hornet. ="
When $50 80 many people In the world
who like 10 say disagree able things and
write dsagr,sahlc things, come almost
I'm my weaker moments tu believe what u
man said To me in Philadelphia one MOI
day morning. | went Ia get the horse at
the livery stable. and the huSilcr, plain
man, said 10 me, MIR. Talmagc, saw
that you preached to the young men yes
terday;" / said. YES. He said: mo
use-no use. Mans u failure. I"
Physical Ills.
1Hc Vi
sometimes come In the shape of local
physical trouble, which does not amount
To positive prusi ration hut which both
ers you when you want la feel the best.
Perhaps IL Is a sick headache which has
been the plague Of your life, and yon APP
point some occasion Of mirth or sociality
or usefulness, and when the clock strikes
the hour you canno, make your appear
IL. l. l.se.t ha
ear aud the forehead. in the shape of a
neuralric twinve Nnh"hv can SO Is or
eympathize with II. but just at the time
when you want your intellect clcarest and
your disposition brightest you feel sharp
keen, disconccrting thrust THE Lord
sent the hornet
Perhaps these small insect annoyances
will come in the shape of "a domestic irri-
tation. The pnrlor and the kitchen do
not always harmonic. To get good serv-
ice and 10 keep il Is one of the greatest
questions of the country. Sometimes IL
may be the arrOgancy and Inconsistencies
ness OF employers. but. whatever be the
fact we all admit there are these insect
annoyanccs winging their way out from
the culinary department. II the grace Of
God be- not In the heart of the housekeepcr,
she cannot maintain her equilibrium
The men come home Mt night and hear
the story OF these annnyanccs and say,
"Oh, these home troubles are very little
things They are small, small ms wnsps.
but they sting. Martha's nerves were all
unsirung when she rushed in, asking
Christ Ia sc1ld Mary and there are tens
Of thousands Of women who are dying,
stung to death by these pcstifcrous domcs.
tic annoyances Tho Lord sent the
hornet q"
These small insect disturbances may also
come In the shape Of business irrltations.
ls57 and the 2lth Of September. 1859,
without losing their balance, who are ev.
cry day endorsed by little nnnuvanccs-a
clerk : Ill manners, or n blot ~ ik on a
bin 81 lnding. or the cxtraval ~ Of u
partner who ovcrdraws his account. or the
undcrseiling 10y business rival, or the
whispering 81 store condolences In the
street. or the making Of some little bad
debt which was against your Judgment,
Just To please somebody else.
The Lord sends Hornets.
IL is not the panics that kill the mcr,
chants. Panics come only once in 10 or
20 years. IL Is the constant din Of these
everyday annoyances which Is sending SO
many ~ our best merchants into nervous
dyspepsia and paralysis and the grave
When our national commerce fell fiat on
Its face. these men stood up and felt almost
defiant. but their life is going away now
under the swarm of these pcstiferous an
:@-::ices THE Lord sent the ho.n~' "