The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-16
ANNOYANCES Of LIFE.
~sThe Lord, Thy God VIII Send the
Hornets"
Not Wars aud Panics That Year Mem.
Souls Away, But little hils that Crate,
Upon the Nerves---s-rmon# by
Rev. +. DEWITT Talmage

Lord, Thy God, viii Send the Hornet. ,
Deut vii, 20. s.=> - ..~E@ 49, :. lax. *
IL seems as II the inscctile world
were determined TO extirpate the hui.
man race. II bomEards the grain fields
and the orchards and the vineyards.
The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska
grasshopper, the New Jersey locust,
the universal potato bug, seem to carry
on the work which was begun ages
ago when the insects bu2zed out of
Noah's ark as the door was opened.
In my text the hornet flies out on
its mission. II 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
believing under the cut of its lancet
j In boyhood we used to stand cautiously
looking at the globular nest hung from
the tree branch, and while we we're
looking at the wonderful covering we
were struck with something that sen t
us shrieking away. The hornet goes in
aswarms.., 1t has captains over hun.
dreds, and 90 of them alighting on one
man will produce death.
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 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 bchemoths of trouble, we be-
come chivalric, 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. But, alas, for these
insectile annoyances of life-these foes
too small to shoot-these things with
out any avordupois weight-the gnats
and the midges and the flies and the
waspS and the hornets! In other words,
it is the small singing annoyances of
our life which drive US out and use US
up In the aforementioned life, for
some grand and glorious purpose God
has sent the hornet.
remark, in the first place, that
these small, singing annoyances may
come in the shape of a nervous organ
ization.
People who are FRUSTRATED under
typhoid fevers or with broken bones
get plenty of sympathy; but who pit
les any body that is nervous? The doc
tors say, and the family say, and every
body says: "Oh, she's only little
nervous, that's ALL" The sound OF
heav foot, the harsh clearing of
throat, discord in music, a want Of
harmony between the shawl and the
glove on the same person, curt an.
swer, passing slight, the wind from
the east, any one of ten thousand
annoyances opens the doors for the
hornet. The fact is that the vast ma
jority OF the people in this country are
overworked. and their nerves 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, wheth-
.er live or die, the wheel must keep
going round" These sensitive per-
sons Of whom speak have bleeding
constituencies The flies love to light
on anything raw, and these people are
like the Canaanites spoken OF in the
text or in the conteNt--they have
very thin covering, and are Vulnerable
at all points. "And the Lord sent the
hornetn eL@# IT,. H. ,.-..E.&.."1-
Again, the small insect annoyances
may come to us in the shape OF friends
and acquaintances who are always.
saying disagreeable things There are
some people you can not be with for
half an hour but you feel cheered and
comforted. Then there are other peo-I
pie you can not be with for five min-
utes before you feel miserable. They
do not mean TO disturb YOU, but they
sting you to the bone. They gather up
all the warn which the gossips spin,
and retail it. They gather up All the
adverse criticisms 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 laugh heartily when
they tell you, as though It were good
joke, and You laugh, too---outside.
These people are brought to our at.
tention in the Bible, in the Book OF
Ruth, Naomi went forth beautiful and
with the finest of worldly prospects,
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, Ihey
all -ssSssss cut, and, instead OF giving
her common-sense consolation, what
did thev do? RAxd the Book OF Ruth