The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-12-09
TALMAGE SERMON.
ieRlEF SYNOPSIS OF THE pIvINe's SUN.
DAY DISCOURSE.
Subject: Small Annoyances-We Should
Strive 10 Overcome the Troubles OF
Life-with the Help of Gods Grace
Petty Grievances Become blessings!
copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1891

Life-with the Help of Gods Grace
Petty Grievances Become Blessings
copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1891
WASHINGTON, D. C.-This sermon by DR..
| Talmage deals with subject which APP
| peals to all classes and conditions Of men.
| His text Is Deuteronomy vii., 20; "The
| Lord thy God will send the hornet
In my text the hornet flies out on its mis-
zion. 1t Is a 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 believing under the cut
| OF its lancet. In boyhood We used to stand
| cautiously looking at the globuiar nest
| hung from the tree branch, and while We
| were looking at the wonderful covering we
| we're struck with something that sent US
| shrleking away. The hornet goes In
| swarms. 1t has captains over hundreds,
| and twenty OF them alighting on one man
| will produce certain death.
| 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 IL
| God be with us we come out stronger and
| better than when we went In. 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 u,idges and the flies ana the wasps and
the hornets! In other words, 1t is the
small, singing annoyances OF our life
| which drive us out and use us up. In the
best conditioned life for some grand and
glorious purpose God has sent the hornet.
i remark, in the first place, that these
small, singing annoyances may come in
the shape Of nervous organization. Peo-
pie who are Frustrated under typhoid
levers 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, ooh, she's only
little nervous; that's ALI" The SOUND of a
heavy foot, the harsh clearing OF q throat,
| discord In music, want OF harmony be-
tween the shawl and the glove on the same
| person, curt answer, passing slight, the
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 are the first to
give out. A great multitude are under the
strain of Leyden, who, when he was told
by his physician that II he did not stop
working while he was in such poor physi-
cal health he would die. responded, Doc
keep going round" These sensitive per-
sons OF whom speak have bleeding SEN
sitiveness. The hies. love to light on any,
thing raw; and these people are like the
Canaanites spoken OF In the text or In the
context-they have u very thin covering
|
| Lord sent the hornet"
Again, the small insect annoyances may
| come to us In the shape OF friends and ac-
quaintances who are always saying dis
| agreeable things. There are somo people
you cannot be with for half an hour but
you feel cheered and comforted. Then
| there Rre other people you cannot be with
! for ave 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
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 it. They laugh heartily
when they tell you, as though 1t wete a
good joke, and you laugh, too-outside.
The small insect annoYances Of life
sometimes come in the shape OF local
physical trouble which does not amount
u to positive prostration, but which
| bothers you when you want to feel the
( best. Perhaps 1t ~ q sick headache which
has been the plague OF your lie, and you
+ appoint some occasion OF mirth or sociality
or usefulness, and when the clock strikes
= the hour you cannot make your appear
ance. Perhaps the trouble is between the
ear and the forehead In the shape oil
i a neuralgia twinge. Nobody can see it or
! | sympathize With 1t, but just at the time
i when you want your intellect clearest and
! your disposition brightest you feel sharp,
keen, disconcerting thrust. "The Lord
, | sent the hornet"
Perhaps these small insect annoyances
| will come In tine shape VI uvrnos.,o ....-
b tation. The parlor and the kitchen do not
always harmonic. To get good service
! and keep it is one of the great questions OF
; the country Sometimes 1t may be the ar
; rogance and nconsiderateness OF employ
! ers; but, whatever be the fact, We all ad-
NIT there are these insect annoyancei
! winging their way out from the culinary
department. If the grace Of God be not In
the heart of the housekeeper, she cannot
! maintain her equilibrium. The men come
home az night and hear the story of these
= annoyances and say, ooh, these home
| troubles are very little thingsl" They are
| small, small as wa5ps, but they sting
J, Martha's nerves were all unStrung when
4 she rushed in asking Christ to scold
Mary, and there arc tens of thousands o.
!. | women who are dying, stung to death by
7 these pestiferous domestic annoyances
s "The Lord sent the hornet"
, These small insect disturbances may also
: come In the shape of business irrtatlons
There are men here who went through thu
Y oath OF September, 1869. and the panics o
q 1878 and OF 1893 without losing thei
i. balance who are every day endorsed BY Iii
tie apnoyances-a clerks Ill manners, OR 1
blot OF ink ON n bill of lading, or the ex
g travagance of O partner who oyerdraws bin
\ account or the underselling by IA business
rival, or the whispering OF store coma
!, dences In the street, or the making ofsor'
t little bad debt which was against your in z
, ment, but you wanted to please someboI
!, else.
1t Is not the panics that xii the mer
Q chants. Panics come only once la tea o
twenty years. 1t is the constant din 0
these everyday annoyances which Is send
ing so many OF our best merchants int
nervous dyspepsia and paralysis aad tn
grave. When our national commerce fe
fiat on its face, these men stood up and fe.
= almost defiant, but their life is going ava
n | now under the swarm OF these pestiferou
annoyances. 1.-The Lord sent the hornet.
The naturalist tells US that wasp SONS
IS times has a family OF 10000 wasps, and
r. does seem Gs IL every annoyance OF ycu
: life brooded a million. BY the help OF oC
VI to-day I want to show you the other side
70 The hornet is OF no user Oh yesl I'll
q naturalist tells US they are very importan
). in the worlds economy. They kill spider!
:. and they clear the atmosphere. And
q | really believe God sends the annoyaaca
a OF our life upon US to kill the spiders {
% the soul and to clear the atmosphere
| our skies.
/ These annoyances are sent on us, thin,
t. to wake us up from our lethargy. Their
= Is nothing that makes man SO lively az
! nest OF yellow jackets" and think tn
these annoyauces are tended 70 PersuaJ
'e us of the fact that this is not a world 4
= US to stop in. II we had bed Ell ever
| thing that was attractive and soft au
easy. what would we want OF heaven? Y
n think that the hollow tree sends the BIO
;" net, or We may think that the devil sen,