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 and Panics That Wear Mems
souls Away, But Lietie Iils That Crate.
Upon the Nervos--Sermon by
Rev. n. Dewitt raimaVs

ances OF life. Ills text was. THE
Lord, Thy God, WIN Send the Hornet /,
Deut vii, 20. &*t@ .. .. H.. IN
IL seems as IL the insectile world
were determined TO extirpate the hui
man race, II bombards the grain fields
q 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 buzzed 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
Il sting. It's touch is torture to man or
beast. We have all seen the cattle run
believing under the cut of it's lancet
!. In boykood we used to stand cautiously
looking at the globular nest hung from
the tree branch. and while we were
looking at the wonderful covering we
were struck with something that sen t
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
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 dies and the
wasps and the horuetsl In other words,
it is the small singing annoyances of
our life which drive us out and use us
up. In the aforementioned life, &or
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 q nervous organ.
ization,
People who are Frustrated under
typhoid fevers or with broken bones
get plenty of sympathy; but who pit
les anybody that Is nervous? The doc
tors say, and the family say, and every
body says: "Oh, she's only a little
nervous, that's all"' The sound OF a
heav foot, the harsh clearing OF a
throat, a discord in music, a want Of
harmony between the shawl and the
glove on the same person, a curt an
swer, a 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
overworlSed. and their nerves are the
first TO give ont. 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 ia such poor physical health he
would die, responded: Doctor, wheth-
err live or die, the wheel must keep |
going round" These sensitive per-
sons OF whom speak have q 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 |
hornet ~. -.
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 aa hour but you feel cheered and
comforted Then there are other peo-
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 yarn which the gossips spin,
and retail it They gather up 81 the
adverse criticisms about your person,
about your business, about your home,
about your church, and they make
your eur 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? They
all went out, and, instead OF giving