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

bulum. All who will live godly
in Christ Jesns must suffer per-
secution. Besides that, there are
the sicknesscs and the bankrupt
cies and the irritations and the
disappointmonts which are ever
putting cup of aloes to your lips.
Those wrinkles on your face are
hicroglyph;cs which if decipher-
ed, would make out q thrilling
story of trouble. The footstep 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. the joys 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 advane'
ing army were heard, and the au-
dience broke up in wild panic and
ran for their lives. So ofttimes
when you are seated amid the joys
and festivities of this world, you
hear the cannonade Of some great
disaster. All the 6tches 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 compli-
ment to US if we escape great trial.
The ftches and the cum min on
one threshing. floor might look
over to the corn on another thresh-
ing.aoor, and say "Look at that
poor, miserable, bruised corn. We
have only been alittle pounded,
but that has been almost Destroy
ed." Well, the corn, if it had lips:
would answer and say: Do you
know the reason you have not
been as much pounded as [ have?
Its because you are not of so
much worth as 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 60 out with large bas,
kets, but when the drouth has al.
most consumed the fruit then. a
quart measure will do as we'll. 1t
took the venomous snake on Paul's
hand, and the pounding of him
with stones until be was taken up
for dead, and the jamming against
him ofprisou gates, and the Ephe-
sian vociferation, and the skinned
ankles Of the painful stocks, and
the laundering Of the AIezandrian
corn ship, and the beheading
stroke Of the Roman sheriff to
bring ,Paul:to his proper develop
ment. It was not because Robert
| Moffat and Lady Rachel Russell
and Frederick Oberlin were worse
than other people that they had
to suffer; it was because they wore
better, and God wanted. to make
them best. By the carefulnesso1
the 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
ftches; the rod for the eammin
the iron wheel for the corn
Sometimes people in great trou
BILE say: "Oh l can't bearit!' Bu'
you did bear it. God would moi
have sent it, upon you If be hat
not known that you could bear 1t
You trembled and you swooned
but you got through. God will
not take from your eye one tear tot