Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-06
PAY enc nebt OF Nature.

TO bear from the husbandmen, when you
are like the shock Of corn which cometh
in his season." Perhaps, now, this is the
answer to question which asked last
Sabbath and left unanswered. Why is it
that so many good people have so fearfuly
to suffer? They have enough aches and
pains and distresses of body, one would
think, to discipline whole colony, while
some useless 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. i remem-
Der 1t took deep thrust of the husking
peg and a hard pull to dislodge a full
round ear, while there were ears that
hardly seemed worth husking, and they
were thrown by themselves and were called
nubbins. Some of them were mildewed,
some mice nibbled some of them were IN
developed, some of them all cobs and no
corn. Nubbins! After the valuable load
of corn had been driven to the barn we
bic nubbins. Well, there are men all
about uswho amount to nothing. They
develop no useful character. They are
nibbled Of the world on one side, and nib
bled Of the devil on the other side, aud
mildewed on all sides. They promise
much and fulfill nothing. All cob and no
corn.
They are not worth Huskfng.
Nubbins! They:will be gathered up, how
ever. Some of them may reach heaven,
but they are of little value. They are not
TO be mentioned on the same day as those
who through great tribulation enter the
e torn and larcerated and husked with the
live ear and go into the best of the garner
than escape because you are not worth
husking. Nubbins.
remember, also, that busking tim rwas
one of neighborhood reunion. In the win
ter by the fire cracking on the hearth
around the glorifed backlog in the great,
honest, old fashioned fireplace, of which
the modern stoves and heaters are only the
degenerated descendants, 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 compar ed with the
husking time, when all the neighbors were
on hand and all of them in their best mood.
They came up from the other side of the
meadows, and from the ether side of the
wood, and from all parts for two or three
miles around and the grandest good humor
reigned, and the brightest passages in
all their lives were rehearSed, and there
was a hearty shaking of hands, and the JOY
of those old husking time reunions makes
all the bones in my body this moment
tremble with emotion, like harp strings
when tie fingers of the player sweep the
chords.
So Heaven is to be Reunion.
There they come up! They were buried
in the old village Churchyasd There they
come up! They have beeu reclining amid
the parterreS festoons, and sculptures OF
the city cemetery. There 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 despondences husked
of. All their hindrances for usefulness
husked off. The grain, the golden grain,
the God 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 would
hardly know them, having got the husks
of. On earth they were always saying dis
agreeable things without meaning to. They
told you how bad you looked or what they
had heard somebody say against you, or
how many battles thew ho1 m fs.h. So -~>,.-
killed in the battle, and they were good,
pious, we'll meaning disagreeables. But
now they come in, all the husks off. Every
one happy as happy can be, and finding
every one else just as happy
Heaven One Great NeighbOrhOod.
All known of all. All kings and queens;
all conquerorS all millionaires; all ban
oueters. The great father with all his chill
dren around him and no goodbye in all
the air, and no grave cut in all the hills;
river of gladness rolling over beds OF pearl,
under arches of chrysopras into seas OF
glass mingled with fire. Stand at the door
of the garner and see the grain come in out
of the frosts into the sunshine; out OF the
darkness into the light; out OF the tearing
and the ripping of husking-time into the
wide.open doors of the kings granary.
Like as the shock of corn cometh in his
season" 49,,
Yes: it will be one great sociable, one
great huskingtime No one feeling him
self too big to talk with another. Arch
angle willing to listen to the smallest
cherub. No Cliques sitting around in cor
ner whispering to each other; no bolt or
cast 10 keep out of one heavenly mansion
the citizen of another habitation. David
taking on no airs as giant.killer. Joshua
making no one halt until he passes because
he made the sun and moon halt. Paul
making no assumption over the humblest
preacher of righteousness. Mann, the
Syrian commander, not more honored than
is the Israelitish maid who told him he
could find good doctor.
MY soul, What Country,
where the hunlblest man is king and the
poorest woman queen, and the smallest
house palace and the shortest lifetime an
eternity. But the best thing about the
whole matter, is'we may all 60 there. Not
l." saws man standing away back under
the galleries Yes, you! Not says a
man who has not been in church before for
two years, and hardly knows why he is
=
man who for fifty years have been as bad
as can be. all my thoughts wrong, all my
actions wrong" Yes, you! Plenty OF mo-
nopolies on earth; monopolistic railroads,
monopolstic telegraph companies, monop'
olistic grain dealers, but no monopoly In
religion. Salvation through Christ for all
who will take it. OF course you cannot
get to Charleston by taking steamer to
Portland, nor to heaven by going in an OPP
posite direction. Believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved. But do
you really think" says some one, II would
| feel at home in such supernal company.
Yes, think you would.
In the old husking times l remember
that there was
Wonderful Equality OF Feeling.
One farmer who sat at one shock OF corn
owned 200 acres of land. and the farmer
who sat at the next shock of corn owned
only 30 acres One man drove home that
| night with two roam horses, which frisking
| in the cool air could hardly be kept from
| getting their feet over the traces, while his
peighber went home afoot. But the neigh
bers, though differing widely in education
widely in means, all enjoyed each other
society in the grand old times OF husking
So we shall come round our Fathers table
| in heaven, and the neighbors wills all b'
there and we will talk over the past, and Il
any one of us had victory we will cele
brate II, and if any one of us had strug
gle We viii all praise the grace that brough
him out Of it, and some one will say
| "Here's nv old father that put away II
| Greenwood with great heartbreak. How
| voung he looks" And some one will say
IHere's my child, which put away with
desolation that shadowed all my atte
wears, and see she does not look as II sh'
had ever been sick a day." Go in and dine
nor feel abashed though John Milton sit oil
one side of you and John Howard on tn
other. Go in and dine though Charlotte
Elizabeth sit on one side and Hannah Moo
on the other.
Mouareh Yourself.