The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-10-13
OUR MINOR TROUBLES
Sermon by DR.. Talmage on Small
Annoyancss.
lie snSsit Is These which Test Chris
tinn Fortitude and Patience
The Lesson of Trivial
IrritntiOns.
Copyright, 1899, BY Louis Klopsch.
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God will send the hornet"
1t seems as If the insectile world
were determined to eNtirpate the hu-
man race. IT. bombards the grainfelds
| and the orchards and the vineyards.
The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska
grasshopper, the New Jersey locust,
the universal potato beetle, seem to
carry on the work which was begun
ages ago when the insects buzzed out
OF Nouhs ark as the door was opened.
In my text the hornet flies out on its
mission. II is n 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 below
ing under the cut of it's lancet In boy
hood we used to stand cautiously look
ing at the globular nest hung from the
tree branch, and while we were looking
at the wonderful covering we were
struck with something that sent us
shrieking away. The hornet goes in
swarms. 1t has captains over hum
dreds, and 20 of them alghting on one
man will produce certain death.
The persians attempted to conquer
n Christian city, but the elephants and
the beasts on which the Persans rode
were assaulted by the hornet, so that
the whole army was broken up, and the
besieged city was rescued. This burn
ing and noXious insect stung out the
llittites and the Canaanites from their
country. What cleaning sword and
chariot of war could not accomplish
was done by the puncture of an insect.
"The Lord sent the hornet"
My friends, when we are assaulted
by great behemoths of trouble we be-
come chivalrc 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 annoyanccs of life, these foes
too small TO shoot, these things with
out any avoirdupois weight, the gnats
and the midgcs and the flies and the
wasps and the hornets! In other
words, it is the small singing annoy
anccs of our life which drive us out and
use MS up. In the best conditioned
life for some grand and glorious pur-
pose God has sent the hornet.
remark, in the first place, that these
small singing annoyances may come
in the shape of a nervous organization.
People who are prostrnted under ty-
phoid fevers or with broken bones get
plenty of sympathy, but who pitics
anybody that is nervous? The doctors
say and the family say and everybody
says: "Oh, shes only little nervous;
that's ALL" The sound Of heavy foot,
the harsh clearing Of throat discord
in music want OF harmony between
the shawl and the glove on the same
person, n curt answer a 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 i'm this
country are overworkcd and their
nerves are the first TO give out. A great
multitude are under the strain of Ley
den who, when he was told by his ply
sician that if he did not stop
working while he was in such
poor physical health he would
die responded; Doctor, whether
live or die, the wheel must keep going
round" These sensitive persons of
whom | speak have bleeding sensi-
tiveness. The flies love TO light on any
thing raw, and these people are like
the Canaanites spoken Of in the text or
in the conteN-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 acquaintauces who are always say
ing disagreeable things. There are
some people you cannot he with for half
an hour but you feel cheered and com
forted. Then there are other people
you cannot be with for five minutes be-
fore 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
il. They gather up all the adverse crit
icisms about your person, about your
business, about your home, about your
church, and they make your ear the
funnel into which they pour it. They
luuBn ucdTllly Wncn lnCy tell you, as
though it were a 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 worldly prospects 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 do? Read
the book Of Ruth and find out. They
threw up their hands and said: SIS this
Naomi?" as much as to say; GLOW
awful bad you do look" When / en-
tered the ministry, looked very pale
for years, and every year, for four or
five years, many times a year was
asked If had not consumption, and,
passing through the room, would
sometimes hear people sigh and say:
"A-ah, not long for this worldl" / re-
solved in those times that l never in