Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-02
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.

Subject: Small Annoyances-we Should
strive 10 overcome tho Troubles of
Life-With the Help of Gods Grace
Petty Grievances Become Blessings.
Copyright. Louis Klopsch 1897
WASHINGTON, D. C.-This sermon by DIR.
Talmage deals with subject which ap-
peals to all classes and conditions of mon.
His text is Deuteronomy VIII, 20, 1.-THE
Lord thy God will send the hornet.''
In my text the hornet flies out on its mis-
sion. 1t is species OF wasp, swift in its
motion and violent in its sting. It's 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 ut the wonderful covering we
were struck with something that sent us
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
chivaric, and we assault them We get on
the high mettled steed Of our courage, and
we make q cavalry charge at them, and II
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 midges and the flies ana the wasps and
the hornets! In other words, it 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, stinging annoyances may come in
the shape of nervous organization. Peo-
pie who are prostrated under typhoid
fevers or with broken bones get plenty of
sympathy, but who pities anybody that is
say and everybody says, "Oh, she's only n
little nervous; that's ALL" The sound OF a
heavy foot, the harsh clearing OF throat,
discord In music, a want Of harmony be-
f, tween the shawl and the glove ON the same
person, a 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
4, give out. A great multitude are under the
strain of Leyden, who, when he was told
working while he was in such poor physi-
cal health he would die. responded, I'D oc-
| tor, whether live or die, the wheel must
keep going round" These sensitive per-
| sons OF whom speak have bleeding sen-
/ sitiveness. The flies 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 Il 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 ac-
| quaintances who are always saying dis.
| agreeable things. There are some people
! you cannot be with for half an hour but
! you feel cheered and comforted. Then
! there are 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 busi-
| ness, about your home, about your chu-ch,
which they pour 1t. They laugh heartily
when they tell you, as though it we've ii
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
TO positive prostitution, but which
bothers you when you want to feel the
best. Perhaps it is 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 OF
n neuralgia twinge. Nobody can see it or
sympathize with it, but just at the time
when you want your intellect clearest and
your disposition brightest you feel a sharp,
keen, disconcerting thrust. 1.-The Lord
sent the hornet"
Perhaps these small insect annoyances
will come in the shape of Il domestic irri-
! tation. The parlor and the kitchen do not
always harmonize. TO get good service
and keep it is one of the great questions OF
the country. Sometimes it may be the ar
Iar nf nj
ers; but, whatever be the fact, we all ad-
NIT there are these insect annoyances
wlnging 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, 'Oh, these home
troubles are very little things!" They are
small, small as wa5ps, but they sting
Martha's nerves were all unstrung when
she rushed in asking Christ to scold
Mary, and there are tens Of thousands OF
women who are dying, stung TO death by
these pestiferous domestic annoyances
"The Lord sent the hornet"
These small insect disturbances may also
come in the shape of business irritations.
There are men here who went through the
oath OF September, 1862 and the panics oi
1873 and OF 1898 without losing their
balance who are every day unhorsed by lit
tie annoyances-a clerks Ill manners, or q
blot OF ink on a bill of lading, or the ex
travagance of a partner who overdraws his
account or the underselling by II business
rival, or the whispering of store conf
dences in the street, or the making OF some
little bad debt which was against your judg
ment, but you wanted to please somebod,
else.
1t is not the panics that kill the mer
chants. Panics come only once In ten OF
! twenty years. 1t is the constant din o
these everyday annoyances which is send
ing so many of our best merchants into
nervous dyspepsia and paralysis and tn.
grave. When our national commerce fel
fiat on its face, these men stood up and fell
almost defiant, but their life is going away
now under the swarm Of these pestiferou
annoyances. "The Lord sent the hornet.
The naturalist tells US that II wasp some
times has u family OF 90, 900 wasps, and i
does seem as II every annoyance OF youl
life brooded a million. By the help OF God
to-day want to show you the other side
The hornet is OF no use? Oh, yesl The
naturalist tells us they are very important
In the worlds economy. They kill spiders
and they clear the atmosphere. And
really believe God sends the annoyances
of our life upon US to kill the spiders o
tha oorl apH fo olaar tha utr n