The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1899-10-18
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Sermons BY Rev. Dr. -Talmage On
smailsAnnoyances.
NoRsTRouRLEs or LIFE.
They Test Christian Fortitude
\. and Patience. The Lesson
ss; as Of Trivial Irritations.'I

,S with IA subject which appeals to all
81 olasses and conditions of mon. His
toxtis Deuteronomy vii, 20, "The Lord
Il thy God will send the hornet"
It seems as if the inscctile world
y were determined to extirpate the hui
B man race. It bombards the grainiields
and tho orchards and tho vineyards
Tho Colorado beotlo, tho Nebraska
4 grasshopper, tho Now Jersey locust, the
\ universal potato boetlo, seem to carry
Il on tho work which was begun ages ago
when; the insects buzzed out Of Noah's
i ark astho door was opened.
In my. text tho hornet flies out on its
q mission. It is aspeoios Of wasp, swift
y In its motion and violent in its sting.
Its touch is torture to man or beast
h We have all seen tho cattle run below
! ing under the cut Of its lancet. In boy
hood we used to stand cautiously look
ing at tho globular nest hung from the
troesbranoh, and while wc were looking
at the wonderful oovoripgi wo were
struck with something that sent us
shrioking away. The hornet goes in
\ swarms. 1t has captains over hundreds,
and 20 of them alighting on ono man
will produce certain death.
25 The Porsians attempted to conquer q
Christian oity, but tho elephants and
tho beasts on which tho Persians rode
were assaulted by The hornet, so that
the whole army was brokon up, and, tic
besieged oity'was rescued. This burp-
ing and noxious insect stung out the
Hittites and tho Canaaaites from their
country. What leaning sword and
chariot ot Var could not accomplish
q H. Hx~k l, 20
The Lord sent the hornet"
@ My friends, when we are assaulted
by great bohemoths of trouble I've be-
como chivalric, and,wo assault them.
\ We;get OF the high mottlod lstcod Of
our courage, and we make cavalry
charge at thom, and if God be with us
We como out"strongcr and better than
when wo wont in. But alas for these
insectilo annoyances Of life, those foes
too small to shoot, these things without
any ayoirdupois weight, the gnats and
the midgcs and tho flies and the wasps
and the hornetsl In other words, it is
the small stinging annoyances Of our
life which drive us out and use us up.
I'M the best conditioned life forI somo
grand.and gloriouspurposc God hassent
the hornet.
QI remark, in the first place, that these
small stlnging annoyances may come in
the shape OF Ia nervous organization.
People who are Frustrated under typhoid
fevers or with brokon bones get plenty
Of sysmpathy, but who pitics anybody
q Shat is.norvous3 Tho doctors say and
the family say and everybody says,
sob, she's only little nervous; that's
alll The sound of heavy foot, the
harsh clearing Of a throat, discord in
4 music, n want OF harmony between tho
shawl and tho glove on the same person
s q curt answer, passing slight, tho wind
the from the cast, any one of ten
thousand annoyences, opens tho door
q for the hornet The, fact is that tho
vast majority Of the people in this ooun-
try are overworkcd and their nerves
\ arc tho first to give out. A great null
titude are under the strain Of Leydcn,
3 who, when he was I'D by his physician
that If he did not stop working while
he was in such poor physical health hc
y would die, responded, Doctor, whether
sl live or die, tho wheel must keep going
D round. These sensitive persons of
whom speak have bleeding sensitive
ness. The flies love to light on any
thins raw, and these people are like
the Canaanites spoken Of in the text or
in the context they havo very thin
covering and arc vulnerable at all
points. And tho Lord sent the hor-
net"
Again, the small insect annoyances
may come to us in the shape Of friends
and acquaintances who are ALWAYS say
ing disagreoablo things. There are
some people you cannot be with for half
an hour. but you feel cheerod and com
forted. Then there are other people
you cannot be with for five minutes
before you feel miserable. They do
not mean to disturb you, but they ,ting
you to the bono. They gather up all
the yarn which tho gossips spin and re-
tail it. They gather up all the adverse
criticisms about your person, about
\ your business, about your home, about
+ your church, and they make your car
the funnel into which they pour it.
They laugh heartily when they tell you,
as though it were a good joke, and you
laugh, too-outsido.
These people are brought to our at
tention in tho Bible, in the book Of
Ruth. Naomi went forth bcautifuI
and with the fnost worldly prospects
!, into another land, but after awhile shc
oame back widowed and sick and poor.
4 What did her friends do whom she camo
to the oity? They all went out, and in
/, stead Of giving her common sense con
Y ISOLATION, what did they do7 Read tho
! book Of Ruth and find out. They throw
up their hands and said, Is this
Naomi?" as much as to soy. GLOW
awful bad you do lookP When T en-
\ tered the ministry, I looked very pale
4 for years, and oyory year, for four or
Nfive years, many times year l was
asked if [ had not consumption, and,
passing through tho room, I would
sometime hear peoplc sigh and say,
"A-ah, s.sa long for this world" [ re-
solved in those times that never in
any conversation would say anything
depressing, and by the help Of God [
4 have kept the resolution. These peo-
SAple Of whom speak reap and bind in
s3fho great harvest field Of discourage
4Sment. Some day you greet them with
2|A hilarious "Good morning" and they
3Spome buzzing at you with somo deprcss
%ang information. "Tho Lord sont tho
M MgSSa alornet.
s It 10 astonishing how somo peoplo
prefer to write and to say disagroeablo
That was the case when Henry
nsSS11 StanloV reElrned aftar h;a ,noon;Go