Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-10-14
OUR MINOR TROUBLES
Sermon by DR.. Talmage On Snail
Annoyances
Tie snys rt Il These which Test chris
tisn rorfftudc and Patience
The Lcsson of Trivial
rrrttasfons-
cOpyrighi. iS99. BY Louis Kiopsch.

classes and conditions OF men. MS teNt
As Deuteronomy 1890, The Lord tiy
God will send the hornet"
II seems as if the insectile world
were determined 20 eNtirpate the hu-
man race. II bombards the grainfelds
and the orchards and the vineyards.
The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska /
grasshopper. the New Jersey locust, I
the universal potato beetle, seem TO /
carry on the work which was begun /
ares ago when the insects buzzcd out I.
OF Noah's ark rs the door was opened. I
In my text the hornet flies out On its .
mission. II IS a species Of wasp. swift
in It's motion and violent in its sting. 7
Its touch is torture 90 man or beast.
We have all seen the cattle run below
ing under the cut Of its lancet. In boy
s,ood we used 20 stand cautiously look
ing at the clobular nest hung from the
tree branch. and while we were looking
at the wonderful covering we were
struck with something that sent us
shricking away The hornet goes in
swarms. IL has captains over hum
drcds. and 20 OF them alighting on one
man will produce certain death
The Persians attempted 20 conquer
n Christian city. but the elephants and
the beasts on which the pcrsians rode
were assaulted by the hornet. SO that
the whole army was broken mp. and the
besicccd city was rescued. This burn
ing and noNious insect stung out the
Hittitcs 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 behcmoths OF trouble we be-
come chivairic and we assault them.
We get on the high mettled steed Of
our courage, and we make a cavalry
charge at them. and IL God be with us
we come out stronger and better than
when we went ia. But alas for these
inxectile annoyances of life. these foes
too small 10 shoot. these things with
cut any avoirdupois weight, the gnats
and the midgcs and the flies and the
wasps and the hornetsi In other
words. II is the small stinging annoy
nnccs Of our life which drive Us out and
use us 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 FRUSTRATED under ~
phoid fevers or with broken bones ge'
plenty Of sympathy. but who pitie'
ANYBODY that is nervous2 The doctor
saw and the family say and everybOd,
saws: "Oh. shes only little nervous
that's ALL" The sound OF heavy foot
the harsh clearing Of a throat. discor'
in music. 2 want Of harmony betweel
the shawl and the glove on the sam
person. a curt answer. a passing slight
the wind from the east, any one Of tei
thousand annoyances. opens the doc
for the hornet. The fact is that IN
vast majority OF the people in thi
country are overworked, and thei
nerves are the first 20 give out. \ grea
multitude are under the strain Of Ley
den who, when he was told by his phi,
sician that il he did not sto
working while he was in sue
poor physical health he woul
die. sresponded: doctor. wheth'
live or die. the wheel must keep goiu
round" These sensitive persons
whom speak have a bleeding sens
tiveness. The flies love 20 light on an
thing raw, and these people are III
the Canaanites spoken Of in the text
hin the contex-they have a very I'll
covering and are vulnerable at G
points "And the Lord sent the hornet
Again. the small insect annoyanc
may come 10 us In the shape Of frien
and acquaintauces who are always sa
ing disagreeable things. There a
some people you cannot he with for hs
an hour but you feel cheered and col
forted. Then there are other peoT
YOU cannot be with for five minutes
fore YOU feel miserable. They do n
mean TO disturb you, but they sting y
10 the bone. They gather up all I
yarn which the gossips spin and ret
Il. They gather up all the adverse CT
icisms about your person, about 70
business, about your home. about yo
church. and they make your ear
funnel into which they pour 1t. Th
laugh heartily when they tell you,
though IL were a good joke, and ,
laugh, too-outside.
These people are brought TO our
tention in the Bible, in the book
Ruth. Naomi went forth beautiful a
with the finest worldly prospects Il
another land. but after awhile
came back widowed and sick and po
What did her friends do when she ca
20 the city? They all went out, 4
instead OF giving her common Sc
consolation. what did they do? n
the book of Ruth and find out. II
threw up their hands and said; us
Naomi ?" ~ much as 20 say; II