The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-15
VOLUME XIV.
Nubblns.

Nubblns.
In the course Of a recent eloquent
sermon on "Corn-Husking Time,
!. which we regret We cannot present in
full. the Rev. DR.. Talmage said:
Of course the husking-time In the
fields is a time of frost. Frost on the
fences. Frost on the ground. Frost
on the stubble. Frost on the fallen
3 leaves Frost on the hands of the
reapers. We hid ourselves from the
wind as well as we could between the
stalks, but oh, how flushed the cheeks
and how shivering the body, and how
numb the hands. Cold, sharp, pene-
trating almost here But after awhile
the sun was up and the frosts were out
of the air and the hihFities woke up
the echoes. From one shock of corn
the sound went up, Ha! ha Ha ha!
and was answered from those busy at
another shock of corn, Hal ha Hal ha!
So We may not hide the fact that death
nips and chills, and freezes many hopes
and many expectations. 1t is far from
being south wind. It comes out Of
the frozen North and we stand ben1mb-
ed under its power. Our hearts break
now over our dead children, our dead
companions, our dead parents, and it
seems as if we would never get over it.
Oh, we will get over it, for the sun will
beam and the joys and the shoutings OF
reunion viii make us forget the past
and we will look back to the temporary
distress as only the frosts of husking-
time. Weeping may endure for
night, but joy will come in the morning.
3" Light, and but for a moment.
The chill of the frosts followed by the
gladness which, 'tlike as shock of corn,
cometh in in his season" Of course the
work of the husker ON the ear of corn
seems rough. There must be sharp
thrust of the point The hard thumb |
must be set ON the covering Of the ear.
There must be a harsh blow and ruth
less tear and a complete swapping off
before the grain is freed, and if the |
swathing of the ear of corn could speak |
it might say, "Why must be lacerated
and torn and wrenched ?" Oh, that is
the way
GOD HAS ARHANGEO
that corn and husk must part, and that |
is the way He hath arranged that body |
and soul must separate. You can afford
to bear your physical ailments patiently |
when you know that it is going to for
ward your souls liberation. Each rheu-
matte pain is thrust of the husking
peg. Each neuralgia twinge is twist
of the husker. There is gold in you
that must come out. You must get
your shackle broken. You must get
your ship launched for heavenly voyage.
You must let the great husbandman
hnsk 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 completed; l shall
have never TO go through with that
again" No one ever has to suffer the
same pain twice. 1t may be new pain
in an old place, but each pain does its
work and then dies. IL takes so many
plunges of the crowbar to loosen the
quarry stone for the building. 1t takes
just so many strokes of the chisel to
complete the statue. It takes just
so many pangs of the soul to get rid of j
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. In
stead of being gloomy when you are
sick, know that you have so much less
to bear from the husbandman
when you are like the shock of corn
which cometh in in his season" !
Perhaps, now, thisssis the answer to
question l asked last Sabbath, and left :
unanswered. Why is it that so many
good people have so fearfully to suffer ? q
They have enough aches and pains and =
1istresses of body, one would think, to :
discipline whole colony, while some !
useless man goes with easy digestion and 4
steady nerves and shining health decade e
after decade, and his exit out of this life ;.
IS comparatively painless. | remember 6
hat it took deep thrust of the husk- :, -
ng peg and a hard pull to dislodge a / |
iull, round ear, while there were ears
If corn that hardly seemed worth husk- - -
ng, and they we're thrown by them o. .,
elves, and were called nubbins. Some :" .,
# them were mildewed, =,
SOME OF THEM MICE-NIBBLED, al
ONE of them were entirely undeveloped, +
ONE of them all cobs and no corn X
Iubbins After the valuable load of X
orn had been driven to the barn we d.
vent round and gathered up these mis- h
rable nubbins. Well, there are men kl
II about us who amount to nothing. al
hey develop no useful character. pl
hey are nibbled of the world on one m
ide, and nibbled by the devil on the tn
ther side, and mildewed on all sides. TO
hey promise much and fulfill nothing. al
III cobs, no corn. They are net worth 1t
usking. Nubbins They will be nc
altered up, however. Some of them su
nay reach heaven, but they are of little kI
alue. They are not to be mentioned A
4 the same day as those who through tn
reat tribulation enter the kingdom of OF
rod. Who would not rather be torn mi