The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1899-10-18
MISSION @ O]T[.HORNETS.
ssertnons by Rev. Dr. TaImage On
smaIIsAnnoyances.
! sTMiiNri uT; 4 !. !. L 1 / iKzoU5LEs or LIFE.

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They Test Christian Fortitude
u and Patience. The Lesson
Of Trivial lrritations.
This sermon by"Dr.. Talmago doals
with 4 subject which appeals to all
CLASSES and conditions Of mon. His
sst text is Deuteronomy vii, 20, "Thc Lord
n thy God will send tho hornet"
IT seems as il tho insootilo world
3 were determined to extirpatc the hu-
B man race. It bombards the grainlields
Ii and tho orchards and the Vineyards
The Colorado beetlo, tho Nebraska
n grasshoppor, tho New Jcrsoy locust, the
4 universal potato bootlo, SOON to carry
i on the work which was begun ages ago
when the insects buzzed out of Noah s
i ark as tho door was opened.
In my. text tho hornet flies out on its
mission. 1t is species of wasp, swift
In its motion and violent in its sting.
Its touch is torture to man or beast.
Wo haye'all seen tho cattle run below
ing undor the cut of its lancet. lii boy
y hood wo used to stand cautiously look
ing at tho globular nest hung from the
treesbranch, and whilo wo wcro looking
at the wonderful covering; VIC wore
struck with something that sent us
4 shrieking away. The hornet goes in
swarms. 1t has captains over hundreds,
and 20 Of thom alighting on ono man
4 will produce certain doath
The Porsians attempted to conquer q
Christian oity, but tho elephants and
the boasts on which the Persians rode
z wero assaulted by the hornet, 50 that
the whole army was broken up, and tic
besieged city'was rescued. This burp-
ing and noxious insect stu9g out tho
Hittites and tho Canasaiiitles from their
country. What cleaning sword and
chariot qf~% Var could not accomplish
wa, ,&0ne by tho puncturo of an insect.
The Lord sent tho hornet" :"
# My friends, when we arc assaulted
! by great behemoths of trouble i've be-
como ohivalric. and.wc assault them.
WoYget on the high mottlod tstccd Of
our courage, and we make cavalry
charge at them, and if God be with us
We como out" stronger and better than
whom we went in. But alas for these
insectile annoyonces Of life, theso 70 IS
too small to shoot, these things without
any ayoirdupois weight, the gnats and
the midgos and'th flies and the wasps
and the hornets! In other words, it is
the small stinging annoyances Of our
life which drive us out and use us up.
I'M the best conditioned life forl somo
grand.and> gloriouspurposc God hasscnt
the hornet.
o. remark, in the first place, that these
small stinging annoyances may come in
the shape OF 10 nervous, organization.
People who arc prostrated under typhoid
fovers or with broken bones got plenty
Of sysmpathy, but who pitios anybody
yhat is.nervous7 Tho doctors say and
the family say and everybody says,
%"Oh, she's only little nervous; that's
Allr' Tho sound Of heavy foot, the
harsh clearing Of a throat, n discord in
! music, want Of harmony between tho
shawl and tho glove on the same person
/ a curt answer, passing slight, the wind
the from the cast, any ono Of ten
y thousand annoyenocs, opens tho door
/ for the hornet. Tho fact is that tho
vast majority Of the people in this ooun-
try are overworked and their nerves
are the first to give out. A great mul-
& titude are under the strain of Leydcn,
\ who, when he was I'D by his physician
that it he did not stop working while
he was in such poor physical health he
would die, responded, Doctor, whether
III live or die, the wheel must keep going
!. round. These sensitive persons Of
whom I speak have bleeding sensitive
ness, The flies love to light on any
thing raw, and these people are like
the Canaanites spoken Of in tho text or
In the context they have worry thin
covering and are vulnerable at all
4 points. !, "And tho Lord sent the hor-
net"
Again, tho small insect annoyanccs
may como to us in the shape Of friends
and acquaintancos who are always say
ing disagreoable things. There arc
some people you cannot be with for half
an hour but you feel ohecrcd and com
forted. Then there are other people
I you cannot be with for five minutes
before you feel miserable. They do
not mean to disturb you, but they ting
You to tho bono. They gather up ali
the yarn which tho gossips spin and re-
tail it. They gather up all the adverse
criticisms about your person, about
\ your business, about your home, about
your church, and thoy mako your car
the funnel into which they pour it.
They laugh hccrtily when thoy tell you,
as though it w.ro good joke, and you
X laugh, too--outsido.
These people are brought to our at
tention in tho Bible, in tho 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 whom she came
to the oity? They all went out, and in
stead of giving her common sense con
collation., what did they do? Read the
book Of Ruth and find out. They throw
up their hands and said, "Is this
Naoni2" as much as to soy. GLOW
awful bad you do look'' Whom I en-
tered the ministry, I looked very pale
for years, and oyory year, for four or
3 FIVE years, many times year | was
!. asked if I had not consumption, and,
passing through the room, l would
sometimes hear people sigh and say,
1 "A-ah, not long for this worldl' I re-
1 solved in those timos that I novor in
! any conversation would say anything
depressing, and by the help Of God
have kept tho resolution. These peo-