The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-11-23

enQuTe tOr q night, but Joy cOmeth In
the morning.; e. Light and but for a
lowed by the gladness, which, like as a
shock of corn, cOmeth in in his season."
OF course the work of the husker on
the ear of corn seems rough. There
mnst be sharp thrust of the point. The
hard thumb must be set on the covering
of the ear. There must be harsh blow
and a ruthless tear and complete snap
ping off before the grain is freed, and if
the swarthing of the ear of corn could
speak out, it might say: why must l
be IaceTated and torn and wrenched?"
Oh, that is the way God has arranged
that corn and husk must part; and that
is the way he has arranged that soul
and body must separate. You can afford
to bear your physical ailments patient
ly when you know it will forward your
SOULS liberation Each rheumatic pain
is thrust of Che husking peg. Each
neuralgia twinge is twist of the hus-
ker. There is gold in you that must
come out. You must get your shackle
broken. You must get your ship laun-
ched for heavenly voyage. You must
let the great husbsndman husk your
mortality off your immortality. You
who have chronic ailments ought to
take encouragement from this, that God
is doing gradually, and in milder shape,
the work of emancipation with you than
with those who by one blow are hurled
out of life. At the close of each illness
or parOxysm you ought to say: Thank
God so much of the work of liberation
is cOmpletedl | shall have never to go
through with that again. No Onehas ever
to suffer the same pain twice. 1t maybe
a new pain in an old place, but each
pain does its work then dies. 1t takes
so many plungeS of the crOwbar to lOOS-
en- the QuarrystOne for the building. 1t
takes Just 80 many strokes of the chisel
to complete the statue. 1t takes Just so
many pangs for the soul t1 get rid of
the body. You are paying in install
ments all along that which some of us
will have to render at once when we
come to pay the debt of nature. Instead
of being gloomy when you are sick, know
that you have so much less wOunding to
bear from the husbandman when you
are like the shock of corn, which COM
eth in in his season."
Perhaps now this the answer to a ques-
tiOn asked you last Sabbath and left
unanswered. Why is it so many good
people have so fearfully to suffer- They
have enough aches and pains and dis
tresses of body, one would think, to dis
cipline a whole colony, while some use
less man goes with easy digestion, and
steady nerves, and shining health, de-
cade after decade, and his exit out of
this life is comparatively painless.
remember it took deep thrust of the
husking peg and hard pull to dislOdge a
full round ear, while there were ears of
corn that hardly seemed worth husking,
and they were thrown by themselves
and called nubbins. Some Of them were
miIdewed; some of them mice nibbled:
some of them were entirely undeVelOp-
ed; some of them sll cOb5 and no corn.
Nubbins. After the valuable load of
corn had been driven to the barn we
went round and gathered up these mis-
erable nubbinS. Well, there are men all
about us who amount to nothing. They
nibbled of the world on one side and
nibbled of the devil on the other side,
and mildewed on all sides. They prom
ise much and fulfill nothing. All cObs
and no corn. They are not worth husk
ing Nubbins! They will be gathered
up, however, Some of them may reach
heaven, but they are of little value.
They are not to be mentioned in the
same day as those, who through great
tribulatiOn, enter the kingdom of God,
Who would not rather be torn and lac
Grated and husked with the live ear, and
go into the best part of the garner, than
escape, because you are not worth husk-
ingP Nubbins!
/ remember also that husking time
was one of neighbOrhOOd reunion. In
the winter, by the cracking fire on the
hearth, around the glOrifed back log, in
the great, honest, old fashioned fire
place, of which the modern stoves and
heaters are only the degenerate descen-
dants, small group of neighbOrs would
sometimes gather, two or three families
having come to spend the evening, and
there was much sOciability; but that
was very tame compared with the husk-
ing time, when all the neighbOrs were
on the place, and all of them in their
best mood. They came up from the other
side of the meadow, and from the other
side of the wood, and from all parts for
two or three miles around, and the
grandest good humOr reigned, and the
brightest passages when all their lives
were rehearsed, and there was hearty
shaking of hands, and the joy of those
old husking time reunions make all the
nerves in my body this moment tremble
with emotion, like harp strings, when
the fingers of the players sweep the
chords. So heaven is to be reunion.
There they come up. They were buried
in the old village church-yard. There
they came up. They have been reclin-
ing amid the parterres, and festOons,an
sculptures OF the city cemetery. mere
they come up. From the sea where they
have slept since the ship fOundered off
Cape Hatteras. All the imperfectiOns
which hid their nature husked off. Their
physical ailments husked off. Their
spiritual despoD denotes husked off. All
their hindrances for usefulness husked
off. The grain, the golden grain, the
fashioned grain visible and con-
spicuous. Some Christians who on earth
were so disagreeable that you could
hardly endure them, will be so radiant
you will hardly know them, having got
the husks off. On earth they were al
ways saying disagreeable things with
out meaning to. They told you how bad
you looked, or what they heard some
body say against you; or how many bat
ties they had to ight for you, making
YOU almost wish they had been killed In
the battle, and they were pious, we'll
meaning disagreeables. But now they
come in, all the husks off. Every one is
happy as happy can be, and finding eV-
cry one else just as happy. Heaven one
great neighbOrhOOd; all known to all;
all kings and queens; all conquerors;all
all banqueters. The great
Father with his children all about him;
and no goOd-by in all the air; and no