The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-10-12
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE EMINENT DIVIINE'S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.


Patty Grievances Beconc blessings.
copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1891
WAsHISarcN, d. C.-This sermon by Dr..
TalmaRe deals with a subject which an
peals to MI classes and conditions of men.
Ills text is deuteronomy Yli., 90, "The
Lord thy God will send the hornet"
In my text the uornct flies out on its miy-
| sion. Ii is species OF wasp, swift in it's
motion and violent in its sting. Its touch
IS torture to mnn or henst. we have all
seen the cattle run believing under the cut
o. Its lancet In boyhood we used to stand
cautiously looking Mt the gobular nest
hung from the tree branch, aud while wn
were looking ut the wonderful covering we
were struck with something that sent us
snrleklng away. Whe hornet goes iu
swarms. 1t has captains over hundreds
and twenty of them alightng on ono mar
will produce certain death.
My friends, when we are assaulted by
great behemoths of trouble we beeo ms
chivalrlc, aud we assault them. We got on
tho nigh mettled steed of our courage, and
we make cavalry charge mt them. und N
tod be with us we come out stronger and
better than when we went in. But alas fo-
these tnsectile anHoyances Of life, thess
foes too small to shoot, these things With
out any avordupOis weight, the gnats and
tho midges and the flies ana the wasps and
the hornetsl In OF err words it is tho
which drive us out and use us up. In tine
best conditioned 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 nervous organization. Peo-
pie who are prostrated under typhoid
fevers or with broken bones get plenty of
sympathy, but who pities anybody that Is
aervous2 The doctors say and the family
say and everybody says, ooh, she's only
little nervous; that's alp The sound OF II
heavy foot, the harsh clearing OF a throat
discord In music, n want of harmony be-.
tween the shawl and tie glove on tho same
person, curt answer, passing slight, tho
wind from the east any one OF ten thou
sand annoyances, 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 arc the first to
give out. great multitude are under the
strain of Leyden. who, when he was told
by his physician that il he did not styp
working while he was in such poor physi-
cal health he would die. responded, "Doc-
tor, whether | live or die, the wheel must
keep going round" These sensitive per-
sons of whom | speak have bleeding sen.
sittvcness. The Ales love to light on any
thing rHw and these people are like the
Canaanites spoken of in the text or In the
context they have very thin covering
aud nro vulnerable at oil points. "And the
Lord SEN the hornet"
again, the small insect annoyances NAV
come to Us in tho shape of friends and ac-
qua!ntGnces who are always saying dis
agreeable things. There are some ,. ople
you cannot be with for half an hour but
you feel cheered and comforted. Then
there ARA other people 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 tho gossips spin and retail
1t. 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 ear the funnel into
which they pour 1t. They laugh heartily
when they tell you, ms though 1t were d
good joke, and you laugh, too-outslde.
Thl small insect annoyances of life
sometimes come in the shape OF local
physical trouble which does not amount
to positive prostration, but which
bothers you when you want to feel the
best. Perhaps 1t IL sick headache which
has been the plague of your Lille, and yol
appoint some occasion OF mirth or sociallty
or usefulness, and when the clock strikes
he hour you cannot mako your appear
ance. Perhaps tho trouble is between the
ear and the forehead In the shape oil
a neuralgia twinge. Nobody can SEQ it or
sympathize with 1t, but just ut the time
when you want your intellect cearest and
your disposition brightest you feel Il sharp,
kteu ulS"OnCtrllUR Unjust. Inc IOfu
sent the hornet"
Perhaps these small insect annoyances
will come in the shape of II domestic irri.
tatlon. The parlor and the kitchen DO not
always harmouize. 70 get good service
and keep it is one Of the great questions OF
the country. Sometimes 1t may be the nr-
rogance and inconslderat"ness OF employ
ere; hat, Whatever bo the fact NO ali nd.
nit there are these insect annoyance.
p'inglg their way out from the culinary
department. If the grace OF God he not IL
the heart OF the housekeeper, she ctnnot
maintain her equilibrium. The men come
home AZ night aud hear the story of these
annoyHnces and say, "Oh, the'e home
troubles aro very little th!ngsl' They are
snail, small as wdsps, but they sting.
Marthp's nerves were all unstrung when
she rushed in asking Christ to scolc
Mary, ana there are tolls of thousands oi
women who are dying, stung to death by
these oestilerous domestic annoyances,
The Lord sent the hornet"
These small insect disturbances may also
come in the shape OF business irritations.
There are men here who went through tho
24th OF September, 1869, u. the panics OF
1873 rni # 1898 without losing their
balance who are every day unhorsed by lit
tie annoyanees-a clerks i'll manners, or
blot of ink on II bill of lading, or the OK
trGvhgancc OF II partner who overdraws his
"ccouh. or the undersellng by II businesN
rival, or the whispering of store conf
ceaccs in the street, or the making OF some
little lad debt which was against your iudg-
meut, tn. you wanted to please somebody
else.
1t is not tha panics that kill the me-.
chants. PaHlcs come only once In ten or
.H"nty years. t Is the constant din OF
tbNs" everyday unnoyances which ia send
ing 50 many of oar t~sr mercnahts into
nervous dyspepsia and paralysis and tho
grave. When our national commerce fell
fiat on its face, those r en- stood up and felt
almost defiant, but thoir Lille is going away
nov under the swarm of these pestiforous
pnnoyances. "The Lord sent tho hornet"
The naturalist tolls us that wasp some
tiiGes has Il family OF 10000 wasps, and II
does seem rs IL every annoyance of your
life brooied y million. BY the help CT God
to-day l want to show yOu tho otner side.
The hornet is OF no uso? Oh, yosl The
naturalist tolls us they aro very important
in tue worlds economy. They kill spiders.
and they clear the atmosphere. And
really believe God sends the annoyances
o, our llfp u; on as to KIN tho spiders OF
the soul and to clear the atmosphere OF
our skies.
These annoyances are sont on us, Think,
to wake MS up from our letharSY. There
10 nothing thu. makes u man so lively MS Il |
nest OF yellow jackets" en / thinS that
these aunOYRuces are Intended 10 perauads
Us o. tho fact thst this is OF world for
us 10 stOn in If Wc had n had ~ ays-c- |