The Penn's Grove record., 1899-10-13

otrlFe 10 overcome tnf IfOuDitb VI
Life-with h Help of Gods Grace
Petty Grievances iLeeome blessings.
Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1891
WASHINGTON, D. C.-This sermon by DR..
Talmage deals with a subject which mp
peals to all classes and conditions Of men.
His text is Deuteronomy vii, 90, ttThe
Lord thy God will send the hornet.''
In my text the hornet flies out on its mis-
sion. 1t is a species of wasp, swift in its
motion and violent in its sting. Its touch
is torture to man or beast. We have all
seen the cattle run believing under the cut
of Its lancet. In boyhood 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 us
shrleking away. The hornet goes In
swarms. 1t has captains over hundreds,
and twenty Of them alighting on one man
will produce certain death.
My friends, when we are assaulted by
great behemoths of trouble we become
chivalrlc, and we assault them. We get or
the high melted steed of our courage, and
we make n cavalry char &c at them, and il
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 hornetsl In other words, 1t is the
small, singing ~annoyances OF our life
which drive us out and use us up. In the
best conditioned life for some grand and
glorious purpose God has sent the hornet.
l remark, in the first place, that these
small, singing annoyances nay come In
the shape of a nervous organization. Peo-
pie who are Frustrated under typhoid
fevers or with broker bones get plenty OF
sympathy, but who pities anybody hat is
neryousS TIL doctors say and the family
say and everybody says, "0b, she's only a
little nervous; that's alp The sound OF a
heavy foot, the harsh clearing of a throat,
n dlscord in music, a want of harmony be-
tween the shawl and the glove on the same
person, a curt answer. a passing slight, the
wind from the east, any one of len thou
SAND a~nnoyances, opens the door for the
hornet. The fact is that the vast majority
of the people in this country are over.
worked, 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 II he did not stoI
working while he was In such poor physi.
cal health he would die, responded, "Doc.
tor, whether l live or die, the wh.el must
keep going round" These sensitive per-
sons Of whom l speak have a bleeding sen
sltiveness. The files love to light on any.
thing raw; and these people are like the
C%anaanites spoken of in the text or in the
context-they have u very thin covering
and are vulnerable at all points. And thu
Lord sent the hornet
Again, the small insect ~annoyances may
comet to US in the shape of friends and nc,
q~uaintances who are always saying dis.
agreeable things. There are some people
you cannot be with for half an hour but
you feel cheered and comforted. TheI
there are other people you cannot be witt
l for n Iva Dnfnntna hafpra un1 faal rntaarobla
They do not mean to disturb you, but they
sting you to the bone. They gather up al
the yarn whichthe gossips spin and retail
it. They gather up all the adverse criti
cisms about your person, about your bust
ness, about your home, about your church
and they make your eur the funnel intt
which they pou it. They laugh heartily
when they tell you, as though 1t weie /
good joke, and you laugh, to~o-outside.
The small insect annoyances OF lift
sometimes come in the sl4apeas3f loca
physical trouble which does not amount
TO a positive prostration,s but whicl
bothers you when you wan: to feel thu
best. Perhaps 1t is n sick headache which
has been the plague of your lie, and YOU
appoint some occasion Of mirth or sociallty
or usefulness, and when the clock strikes
tho hour you cannot make our appear
ance. Perhaps the trouble is between thu
ear and the forehead in the shape o
q neuralgia twinge. Nobody can see it OF
sympathize with 1t, but just at the time
when you want your intellect c%learest and
YOU disposition brightest you feel a sharp,
keen, disconcertlng thrust. 'rhe Lord
sent the hornet"
Perhaps these small insect a~nnoyance'
will come In the shape OF a domestic irri
tation. The parlor and the kitchen do not
always harmonic. To get good service
n keep it is one of the great questions o.
] - OA,,ot9rana f+ yro. IA. ~. nv
rogance and inconsiderateness OF employ
ers; but, whatever be the fact, we all ad'
nit there are these insect annoyance.
winging their way out from the culinary
department. II the grace of God be not II
the heart of the housekeeper, she cannoI
maintain her equilibrium. The men come
home at night and hear the story OF these
and say, "Oh, these hoDlt
troubles are very little thlngsi' They are
small, small as wasps, but they sting
Martha's nerves were all unstrung wher
she rushed in asking Christ to scolc
Mary, and there are tens Of thousands o
women who are dying, stung to death BY
these pestiterous domestic annoyances
"The Lord sent the b act"
H. These small insect 2 turbances may also
come in the shape of business irrltations
There -e men here who went through thu
Gath Z September, 1869, and the panics o
1873 md OF 1898 without losing theil
balance who are every day endorsed by lit
tie ~annoyances-a clerks i'll manners, or
blot OF ink on a bill of lading, or the ex
travagance OF a partner who overdraws hi
account or the underselling by a business
rival, or the whispering OF store conf
dences in the street, or the making oil som'
little bad debt which was against your judg
ment, but you wanted to please somebod.
else.
1t is not the panics that kill the mer
chants. Panies come only once In ten o
twenty years. 1t Is the constant din o
these everyday a~nnoyances which is send
ing SO many of our hest merchants int
nervous dyspepsia and paralysis aud th
grave. When our national commerce fel
fiat on its face, these men stood up and fel
almost defiant, but their life is going ava.
now under the swar"N of these pestiferou
an%noyances. "The Lord sent the hornet.
The naturalist tells us that a wasp some
times has a family OF 10000 wasps, and |
does seem as If every annoyance OF you
life brooded a million. By the help OF God
to-day 1 want to show you the other side
The hornet is of no use? o.. yesi Th'
naturalist tells us they are very important
in the worlds economy. They kill spiders
and they clear the atmosphere. And
really believe God sends the a%nnoyancel
of our life upon us to kill the spiders o
the soul and to clear the atmosphere o