Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-10-13
Humanity Overyvorked.


| remark. In the first place. that these
small, stinging annoyances may come
In the shape Of a nervous organization.
People who are prostrated under ty-
uhoid feyers or with broken bones get
plenty of sympathy. but who pities
anybody that is nervous? The doctors
say and the family say and everybody
says, "Oh. she's only little nervous;
that's allr The sound Of heavy foot,
the harsh clearing Of a throat. a dis
cord in music. a 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 oyerworked. 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 IL be did not stop work
ing while he was In such poor physical
health he would die, responded, Doc
tor whether live or die, the wheel
must keep going round" These sensi-
tive persons OF whom | speak have a
bleeding sensitiveness. 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 vul-
nerable 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 say
ing disagreeable things. There are
some people you cannot be with for
half an hour but you feel cheered and
comforted Then there are other peo-
pie you cannot 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 gosslps spin and
retail 1t. They gather up all the ad-
verse criticisms about your person.
about your business. about your home,
about your church. and they make your
ear the funnel'into which they pour II.
They laugh heartily when they tell
you. as though it were good joke. and
you laugh. toO-outslde.
Jobs Comfortsrs.
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 pros
poets. 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 her
common sense consolation. what did
they doi Read the book OF Ruth aud
find out. They threw up their hands
and said. zig this NnomiY as much as
TO say. How awful bad you do lookT
When entered the ministry, looked
very pale for years. and every year.
for four or five years. many times a
wear was asked II had not con-
sumption, and. passing through the
room, | would sometimes hear people
sigh and say. "A-ah, not long for this
worldr resolved In those times that
never In any conversation would say
anything depressing, and by the help
OF God | have kept the resolution
| These people Of whom ! speak reap
and bind in the great harvest ieid of
dlscouragement. Some day you greet
them with hilarious "Gcod morning."
and they come buzzing at you with
some depressing information. "The
Lord sent the hornet"
1t Is astonishing how some people
prefer to write and to say disagreeable
things. That was the case when Hen
ry NJ. Stanley returned after his mag
nificent exploit Of finding David Liv-
ingstone. When Mr.. Stanley stood be-
fore the savants Of Europe and many
of the small critics Of the day, under