St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-11-11

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OURMINOR TROUBLES
sermon BY Dr. Talmage on Small
Annoyances.
Qe says Il II These which Test CAris-
tian Fortitsae and Patienee-
The Lessen ef Trivial
IrFitatiens.
Copyright. 1889, by Louis Klopsch-
washington.
This sermon by DR.. Talmage deals
with . subject which appeals TO all
classes and conditions of men. His text
II Deuteronomy 1920. ''The Lord thy
God will send the hornet"
It seems as il the insectile world
were determined to extirpate the hu-
man race. 1t bombaris the grainfields
and the orchards and the vineyards.
The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska
srasshopper, 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 its
mission. 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 below
ing under the cut Of its lancet. In boy
hood We used to stand cautiously look
ing ut the globular nest hung from the
tree branch, and while we were looking
at the wonderful covering we were
struck with something that sent us
sarieking away. The hornet goes in
swarms. It has captains over hun
creds, and 20 Of them alighting ON one
nan will produce certain death.
The Persians attempted to conquer
. Christian city. but the elephants and
the beasts on which the Persians rode
wele assaulted by the hornet, 30 that
tie whole army was broken up. and the
bvsieged city was rescued. This burn
ing and noxious insect stung out the
Httites and the Canaanites from their
country. What cleaning sword and
chariot of war could not accomplish
wa, done by the puncture Of an insect.
"Tl.e Lord sent the hornet"
Nv friends, when we are assaulted
by great behemoths Of trouble we be.
com. chivalric and we assault them.
We get on the high mettled steed OF
our courage, and we make q cavalry
charge at them, and il God be with ua
we c ,me out stronger and better than
wheR we went in. But alas for these
insec.ile nnnoyances Of life. these foes
to0 mall to shoot, these things with
out aay avoirdupois weight. the gnata
and the midges and the flies and the
waspy and the hornets! In other
words, it is the small stinging annoy.
ances of our life which drive US out and
use uu mp, In the best conditioned
life for some grand and glorious purs
pose God has sent the hornet.
remark, in the first place, that these
small stinging annoyances may come
in the shape Of nervous organization
People who are prostrated under ty.
phoid fevers or with broken bones gel
plenty of sympathy, but who pitiei
ANYBODY that is nervous? The doctors
say and the family say and everybody
says: "Oh, she's only little nervous;
that's all" The sound Of heavy foot
the harsh clearing Of = throat, a discord
il music, want Of harmony between
the shawl and the glove on the same
person, curt answer. passing slight
the wind from the east, any one Of ter
thousand annoyances, opens the dooi
for the hornet. The fact Is that the
vast majority of the people in thi.
country are overworked. and theil
nerves are the first to give out. A great
multitude are under the strain of Ley
den who, when he was told by his ply
sician that il he did not >stoI
working while he was in sucf
poor physical health he would
die, responded: Doctor, whether
1 live or die, the wheel must keep going
round" These sensitive persons o.
whom I speak have a bleeding sensi
stiveness. The flies love to light on any
thing raw, and these people are lik'
the Canaanites spoken of in the text Of
in the contex-they have very thir
covering and are vulnerable at al
points. "And the Lord sent the hornet
Again, the small insect annoyance.
may come to MS in the shape Of friend,
and acuuaintauces who are always say
ing disagreeable things. There ar,
some people you cannot be with for hal
an hour but you feel cheered and con-
forted. Then there are other people
you cannot be with for i've minutes be
fore You feel miserable. They do mo-
mean to disturb you, but they sting yot
to the bone. They gather up all thu
yarn which the gossips spin and retail
Il. They gather up all the adverse crit
icisms about your person. about YOU
busincss, about your home, about You
church. and they make your ear tn
funnel into which they pour it. They
laugh heartily when they tell you. Il
though IL were q good joke, and yo'
laugh, ioo-outside.
1ucSc pcOpiS 0ES UkVu8uS ~ V~A = :
tention in the Bible, In the book |"
Ruth. Naomi went forth beautiful ant
With the finest worldly prospects init
another land, but after awhile sh'
came back widowed and sick and poor
What did her friends do when she camt
10 the city? They all went out. ant
instead of giving her common sens'
consolation, what did they do? Real
the book OF Ruth and find out. The.
threw up their hands and said: rs thi'
Naomi p as much as to say: ''Hov
awful bad you do look!" When I en-
tered the ministry, looked very pail
for years, and every year. for four O
i've years, many times year I va,
asked Il I had not consumption. and
passing through the room, I woult
sometimes hear people sigh and say
sA-ah, not long for this world!" Ire
solved in those times that ! never II
any conversation would my anything
depressing, and by the help Of God
have kept the resolution. These peo
pie Of whom speak resp and bind II
the great harvest field Of discourage
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