The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-29
suBJRcT-"THRRsHED OUT"

Text-Isaiah 2S:27.27: For the ftches
are not thre, he'd with a threshing instru'
ment, neither is a cart wheel turned
about upon the cummin; but the ftChes
are beaten out with a staff, and the cum
min with a rod. Bread corn is bruised
because he will not ever be threshing it..
The heat has been almost insutferable
in the furnace much human life has been
consumed; many families have been bro.
ken; misfortunes of various kinds have
come upon various people; and l sup
pose, standing in any congregation
to-day in this country, the great
need of ninety.nine cases out of one hun
dred is solace. Look, then, to this I'M
frequented allegory of my text. There
are three kinds of seeds mentioned, fit
Ches, Cummin and corn. Of the last we
all know; but it may be we'll to state thai
the ftches and Cummin were small seeds
like the caraway or the Chick.pea. When
these grains or herbs were to be thresh,
ed they were thrown on the floor, and
the workmen would come around with
staff, or rod, or fail and beat them un-
til the seed would be separated; but the
corr was thrown on the floor, ana the
men would fasten horses or ken to a
cart with iron dented wheels; that cart
would be drawn around the threshing
floor, and 80 the work would be accom-.
plished. Different kinds of threshing
for different products. The ftches are
not threshed with a threshing instru.
ment, neither is a cart wheel turned
about upon the cummin; but the ftches
are beaten out with a staff, and the cum
min with a rod. Bread corn is bruised,
because he will not ever be threshing it.
The great thought that the text press
es upon our souls is, that we all go thro'
some kind of threshing process. The
fact that you may be devotiDg your life
to honorable and noble purposes will not
win you any escape. Wherefore, the
Christian emancipation, was in his day
derisively called "Dr. Cantwell." Thos.
Darlington Macaulay, the advocate of
all that was good, long before he became
the most conspicuous historian of his
day, was cariCatured in one of the Quar-.
terly Reviews as "Babbletongue Macau-
Norman Mcleod, the great friend
of the Scotch poor, was industriously
maligned in all quarters, although on
the day he was buried a workman stood
and looked at the procession, and said:
IF he has done nothing mo for any
body than he has for me, he should
shine as the stars for ever and ever"
All the small wits Of London had their
fling at John Wesley, the father of Meth"
If such men could not escape the ma.
of the world, neither can you ex.
peCt to escape the sharp, keen stroke Of
the tribulum. All who will live godly in
Christ Jesus must suffer persecution.
Besides, there gre sickness and bank.
irritations and disappointment
which are ever putting a cup of aloes to
your lips. Those wrinkles on your face
are hieroglyphics which, if deciphered,
would make out a thrilling story of trou.
BILE, The footsteps ofthe rabbit are e
the next morning on the snow, and on
the white hairs of the aged are the foot
where swift trouble alighted. Even
amid the joys and hilarities Of life, trou.
BILE will sometimes break in. As when
the people were assembled in Charles.
own Theatre during the Revolutionary
war, and while they we've witnessing a
farce, and the audience was in great
graduation, the guns of an advancing
army were heard, and the audience
broke up in wild panic and ran for their
ives; so oftentimes while you are seated
the joys and festivities Of this
world, you hear the cannonade of some
great disaster, All the ftChes, aud cum
min, and corn must come down on the
,hreshing floor and be pounded.
Ny subject, in the first place, teaches
is that it is no compliment to us if we
great trial. Look at that poor,
miserable, bruised corn. We have only
a little pounded, but chat has been
Utmost destroyed. Well, the corn, had
t lips, would say, "Do you know the
.eason you have not been so much poun.
led as l have been2 1t is because you
IRE not worth as much as l; if you were,
'ou would be as severely run over" Yet
here are men who suppose they are the
Lords favorites, simply because their
are full, and their bank account is
lush, and there are no funerals in the
house, 1t may be they are fitches and
,ummin, while at the end of the lane
he poor widow may be the Lords
,orn. You are but little pounded be
,ause you are little worth, and she is
bruised and ground because she is the
,est part of the harvest. The heft of the
hreshing machine is according to the
ofthe grain. If you have not been
much threshed in life perhaps there is
lot much to threshl If you have not
Ieen much troubled, perhaps it is be.
cause there will be a small yield. When
1laCkberries are plenty, the gatherers 20
out with large baskets; but when the
brought has almost consumed the fruit,
hen a quart measure will do as well. 1t
,ook the venomous snake on Paul's hand
md the pounding of him with stones
he was taken up for dead, and the
aiming against him of prison gates, and
he Ephesisn moderation, and the skin.
led ankles Of the painful stocks, and the