Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-10-09

Troubles of Life-With the Help of
, Gods Grace Petty Grievances Be
come Blessings.
copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1921
WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-This sermon
by DR.. Talmage deals with a subject
which appeals to all classes and condi-
lions of men. His text is Deuteronomy
vii, 20, 1.-The Lord thy God will send
the hornet"
1t seems as If the inSectile world
were determined to extirpate the hui
man race 1t bombards the grainfields
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 Noah's ark as the door was opened.
In my text the hornet flies out on it's
mission. 1t is a species of wasp, swift
9n its motion and violent in its sting.
Hts touch is torture to man or beast.
We have all seen the cattle run below
Ing under the cut of its lancet. In boy
hood we used to stand cautiously look
ing at the globular nest hung from the
tree branch, and while we were look
ing at the wonderful covering we were
struck with something that sent us
sshrieking away. The hornet goes in
swarms. 1t has captains over hun
dreds, and 20 of them alighting on one
man will produce certain death.
The Persians attempted to conquer
Christian city, but the elephants and
the beasts on which the Persians 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
Utilities and the Canaanites from their
country. What cleaning sword and
chariot of war could not accomplish
was done by the puncture Of an insect.
,s'The Lord sent the hornet"
MY friends, when we are assaulted by
great behemoths of trouble we become
chivalric, and we assault them. We
get on the high melted Steed of our
courage, and we make cavalry charge
at them. and if God be with us we
come out stronger and better than
when we went it. 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 hornets! In other
wards, it is the small, singing annoy
ances 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.
Humanity Overworked.
remark, in the first place, that these
small, singing annoyances may come
in the shape of a nervous organization.
People who are Frustrated under ty-
phoid fevers 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 a little nervous;
that's allr' The sound of q 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, a 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 in this
country are overworked, and their
nerves are the first to give out.
great multitude are under the strain Of
Leyden, who, when he was told by his
physician that if he 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 1 speak have q
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 acquaintance who are always say
ing disagreeable things. There are
some people you cannot be with for
half an hour but you feel cheered and
eomforted. 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 gossips spin and
retail it. They gather up all the adj
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 it.
They laugh heartily when they tell
you, as though it were a good joke. and
you laugh, too-outside.
Jobs Comforters.
These people are brought to our at
Itention 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