The Red Cloud chief., 1892-12-09
HUSKING TIME
Harvest Home Discourse BY Rev
DIR. Talmage.
Gathering the GRAIN That 10 Ripe rss
tho Iarycst-The Fioal Garncr-
Ing of the Great crop
Of Souls.

the harvest season Inc tcSt selected
was: AS IL Shock of Corn Cometh In
In Ills season." job v. 20, DIR. Talmage
said:
This is the time Of the year FOR husk-
ing corn. IL you have recently been in
the fields you know that the corn Is all
cut The sharp knife struck through
the stalks and left them all along the
fields until n man came with n bundle
of straw and twisted n few OF these
wisps of straw into n band, and then
gathering up as much Of the corn Ms he
could compass with his arms, he bound
with his wisp Of straw, and then stood
t in the field in what is called II shock.
About corn ms an imported cereal or
corn rs u metaphor, the Bible is con-
etantly speaking. You know about
people In the famine coming 20 buy
forn OF Joseph, and the foxes on fire
Funning into the standing %corn," and
shout the oxen trcading out the corn,
md about the seven thin ears OF corn
hat in Pharaoh's dream devoured the
seven good ears, and the ''parched
corn" handed To beautiful Ruth by the
harvesters Of bethlehem. and Abigairs
i've measures of "parchod corn" with
which she hoped to sppeasc the one
mics of her drunken husband, and
David's description Of the valleys Gov
nred over with corn" and "thc handful
Of corn in the EARTH" and "the full
corn in the ear" and Christ's sabbath
morning walk through corn fields, and
the disciples '%'plucking ears Of corn"
and SO ! am not surprised to find corn
huslting time referred To in my text:
"As a shock Of corn comcth In III his
season"
There Is a difference OF opinion a. 20
whether the orientals knew anything
about the corn as 1t stands in our fields;
but recent discoveries have found out
that the Hebrew knew all about Indian
maize, for there have been grains OF
corn picked up out OF ancient crypts
md cxhumcd from hiding places where
they were put down many centuries
hgo and have been planted In our tim,
hnd have come up just such Indian
maize rs we raise in New York and
Ohio. SO I am right when ! say that my
fcxt may refer to "A shock OF corn jas
~ you and / bound it, just as you and
threw IL, just AS you II | husked IT.
There may come some practical ant
useful and comforting lessons to all o.
|ouls, while we think Of coming in a
asst like q shock of corn coming in In
is season."
1t is high time that the King OF Ter
ors was thrown out OF the Christian
ocabulary. A vast multitude of peo
lie talk Of death as though II were thu
~isaster Of disasters instead Of being I.
good man tho blessing OF blessings
Is moving out of a cold vcstibule int,
warm temple. 1t Is migrating Int
roves OF redolence and perpetual fruit
Re. II is u change from bleak Marcl
roseate June. II is a change o
a~nacles for garlands. 1t is tn
ansinuting OF the iron handouts q
rthly incarceration into the dia
pndcd wrislets Of a bridal party
TO use the suggestion OF my text, !
only husking time. 1t Is the ~tearin,
of the rough sheath of the body tina
bright and the beautiful soul ma
free. Coming in like a shock c
n comcth in in his season" Chris
Pike up u funeral procession at tn
e Of Main by making q resurrectio
for a young man and his mother
/ would that | could break IL
r sadness and halt the long funera
ccssion OF the worlds grief by som
ering and cheerful view of the las
lsition.
e all know that husking time was
. of frost. Frost on the fencl
st on the stubblc. Frost on tn
lnd. Frost on the bare branches c
trees. Frost in the air. Frost OF
hands of the huskers. You rcmcu
we used to hide between the cor
ks SO as to keep OFF the wind, bu
you remember how shiveriu9 wa
body and how painful was tn
X and how benumbed were tn
S. But after awhile the sun WI
up and all the frosts went out {
mir and hilarities awakened tn
S--hnd Joy from one corn shoe
went up, AHA, aha3' and was III
wered by joy from another corn shocl
"Aha. aha!' So we all realiz
that the d~eatir> of III friend
the nipping of mSny expectations
the freezing, the chilling, the frostin
Of many of our hopes. \ 1t is far frol
being n south wind It zones out
the frigid north, and when they g
away from us we stand beiumbed /
body and benumbed in mind and b'
numbcd in soul. We stand among on
dead ncighbors, our dead families, an
we say: 'Will we ever get over it,
Yes, we will get we it amid the shou'
ings of heavenly reunion, and we wi
look back to all these distresses Of be
reavemcnt only as the temporary di'
tresscs of husking time. "Wecpin
may endure for u night, but joy comet
in the morning" Light, and but fC
a moment" said the apostle, as b
clapped his hands, hight, and but fc
q moment" The chill of the frosts 70
lowed by the gladuess that cometh j
like IA shock Of corn comsth in in h
season."
OF course the husking time mac
rough work with the ear OF corn. II
! husking peg had to be thrust in and II
hard thumb of the husltcr had TO con
: down on the swathing OF the ear, nj
then there WAS a null and there was