The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-12-28
TALMAGE's SERMON.
6mall Troubles Of Life Lil<ened to
Hornets Attacks.
How Best 60 Meet Them-The Lord Crsss-
Cd Insects for . Purpose, and APP
parent Nuisances Have
Their Uses.

hcV' 4. DeWltt IAlmage cnO8e 10
the theme Of q late sermon to hi
Washington congregation, the petit,
annoyances of life His text was:
Tue Lord thy God will send his hornets
Dent VII. 20
1t seems as II the insectile worl,
were determined to extirpate the hu
man race. It bombards the grair
fields and the orchards and the vine
yards. The Colorado beetle, the Ne
braska grasshopper, the New Jersey
locust, the universal potato-bug, seem
10 carry on the work which was begun
ages ago when the insects buzzed on,
Of Noah's ark as the door was opened
In my text, the hornet flies out on It's
mission. 1t Is species of wasp, swift
In its motion and violent in its sting.
It's touch is torture to man or beast.
We have all seen the cattle run below
ing under the cut Of its lancet. In boy
hood we used to stand cautiously look
Ing at the globular nest hung from the
tree branch, and while we were look
ing at the wonderful covering we were
struck with something that sent us
shrieking away. The hornet goes in
swarms. 1t has captains over hun
dreds, and 20 of them alighting on one
man will produce death.
The Persians attempted to conquer a
Christian city, but the elephants and
beasts on which the Persians rode
were assaulted by the hornet, so that
the whole army 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 cleaning sword
and chariot Of war could not accom-
plish 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 chivalric, and we assault them;
we get on the high-mettled steed Of
our courage, and we make cavalry
charge at them, and, If God be with us,
we come out stronger and better than
when we went in. But, alas, for these
insectile annoyances of life-these foes
too small to shoot-these things with
out any avoirdupois weight-the gnats
and the midges and the flies and the
wasps and the hornets! In other
words, 1t is the small singing annoy
ances of our life which drive us out
and use us up. In the best-con ditioned
life, for some grand and glorious pur-
pose God has sent the hornet.
remark, in the first place, that
those small, singing annoyances may
come in the shape of nervous organ
ization.
People who are Frustrated with ty-
phoid fevers or with broken bones get
plenty of sympathy; but who pities
anybody that is nervous? The doctors
say, and the family say, and every body
says: lob. she's only little nervous;
that's ALL The sound of heavy foot,
the harsh clearing of throat, dis
cord in music, want of harmony be-
tween the shawl and the glove on the
same person, curt answer, 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 nerves are the
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
live or die, the wheel must keep GO
ing round" These sensitive persons
of whom speak have bleeding SEN
sitivcness. The flies love TO light on
anything raw, and these people are
like the Canaanites, spoken of in the
text or in the context-they have a
very thin covering, and are vulnerable
at all points. "And the Lord sent the
hornet"
Again, the small insect annoyances
may come TO us in the shape of friends
and acquaintances who are alwa avs say
ing disagreeable things. There are
some people you can not be with for
half an hour but you feel cheered and
oomforted. Then there are other peo-
pie you can not be with for five minutes
before you feel miserable. They do
not mean to disturb you, but they
sting you to the bone. They gather
up all the yarn which the gossips spin,
and retail it. They gather up all the
adverse criticisms about your person,
dDOut your DuSiHcoS, dDOut your nonlc,
about your church, and they make your
ear the funnel into which they pour it, |
They laugh heartily when they tell
you, as though it were good joke,
and you laugh, too-outside.
These people are brought to our at
tcntion in the Bible in the book of
Ruth. Naomi went forth beautiful
and with the finest of worldly pros
poets, and 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 Civ |
ing her common-sense consolation, |
what did they do? Read the book of
Ruth and find out. They threw up
their hands and said: "Is this Naomi?" |
as much as to say: "How awful bad |
you look!" When 1 entered the |
ministry 1 looked very pale for
years, and every year, for four or
fivo years, hundred times year, /
was asked II had not the consump-
ton; and, passing through the room,
would sometimes hear people sigh |
and say: "A-ah! not long for this |