The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-08-11


in Christ jesus must suffer per
secution. Besides that, there are
the sicknesscs and the bankrupt
cics and the irritations and the
disappointmonts which are ever
putting cup Of aloes to your lips.
Those wrinkles on your face are
hierogIyph;cs which if decipher-
cd, would make out q thrilling
story of trouble. The footstop OF
the rabbit is seen the next morn
ing on the snow, and on the white
hairs of the aged are the foot:
prints showing where swift trouble
alighted. Even amid thejoys and
hilarities of life, troubles will
sometimes break in. As when
the people were assembled in the
Charlestown theatre, during the
Revolutionary war, and while
they were witnessing a farce, and
while the audience was in great
graduation, the guns ofan advanc.
ing army were heard, and the au-
dience broke up in wild panic and
ran for their lives. So ofttlmes
when you are seated amid the joys
and festivities of this world, you
hear the cannonade Of some great
disaster. All the ftches and the
eummin and the corn must come
down on the threshing-foor and
be. pounded.
My subject, in the first place,
teaches US that it is no compll-
ment to US FIVE escape great trial.
The ftches and the cummin on
one threshing floor might look
over to the corn on another thresh-
ing-hoor, and say "Look at that
poor, miserable, bruised corn. We
have only been alittle pounded,
but that has been almost Destroy
ed" We'll, the corn, it had lips,
would answer and say: Do you
know the reason you have not
been as much pounded as I have?
It is because you are not of so
much worth as I am; if you were,
you would be as severely run
over" Yet there are men who
suppose they are the Lords ia.
vorites simply because their barns
are fnll, and their bank account
is flush, and there are no funerals
in the house. It may be because
they are ftches and cummin,
while down at the end, Of the lane
the poor widow may be the Lords
corn. You are but little pounded
because you are but little worth,
and she bruised and ground be-
cause she is the best part Of the
harvest. The heft Of the thresh-
ing machine is according to the
value of the grain. If you have
NOT BEEN MUCH THREsHED.
in life perhaps there is not much
to thresh. If you have not been
much shaken Of troubles, perhaps
it is because there is going to be
a very small yield. When there
are plenty Of black-berries the
gatherers go out with large bas-
kets, but when the drouth has al
most consumed the fruit then a
quart measure will do as well. 1t
took the venomous snake on Paul's
hand, and the pounding of him
with stones until he was taken up
for dead, and the jamming against
him ofprison gates, and the Ephe-
sian vociferation, and the skinned
ankles Of the painful stocks, and
the laundering Of the AIexandrian
corn ship, and the beheading
stroke Of the Roman sheriff to
bring Paul. to his proper develop
ment. It was not because Robert
Mofat and Lady Rachel Russell
and Frederick Oberlin were worse
than other people that they had
to suffer; it was because they were
better, and God wanted. to make
them best. By the caretulness of
tho threshing you may always
conclude the value Of the grain.
Next, my text teaches US that
God proportions our trials to what
we can bear. The staff for the
htches; the rod for the cammin;
the iron wheel for the corn.
Sometimes people in great trou-
BILE say: ''Oh can't bear it :! But
you did bear it. God would not
have sent it. upon you II be hau
not known that you could pear IT,
You trembled and you swooned,
but you got through. God will
not take from your eye one tear too
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