Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-12-09

AaNShoho hitI 7" w 1Ou wrench me-
Alb, my friends that Is the way God has ar.
ranged that the ear and husk shall part,
and that Is the way He has arranged that
the boiy and the soul shall separate. You
can afford TO have your physical distress -
when you know that they are only forward
ing the souls liberation. Every rheumatic
pain Is only a plunge OF the husking peg.
Every neuralgia twiuge is only q twist by
the huSker.
There is gold in you that must come ont.
Some way the shackle must be broken
Some way the ship must be launched for
heavenly voyage. You must let the Heaven
ly Husbandmen husk Off the mortality from
the immortality. There ought to be great
consolation in this for all who have chronic
ailments, since the Lord is gradually and
more mildly taking away from you that
which hiniers your souls liberation, doing
gradually for yoa what for many OF US in
robust health perhaps He will do In one fell
blow at the last. At the clos, of every ILL.,
ness at the Gloss OF every psroKyJm you
ougat to say; Thank God. that Is all past
now; thank God, will never have to suffer
that again; thank Col, | am 50 much nearer
the hour Of liberation
You will never suffer the same pain twice.
p ou may have new pain in an old place,
but never the same pain twice. The pain
does its work AMI then it dies. Just so many
plunges Of the crowbar to free the quarry
stone for the building. Just so many strokes
OF the chisel to complete the statute. Just
50 many pangs to separate the soul from the
body. You who have chronic ailments aad
disorders are only paying iu installments
that which some OF US will have to pay in
one payment when we pay the debt OF
nature. Thank Goi, therefore ye WAC have
chronic disorders, that you have so much
less suffering at the last. Thank God that
you will have so much less TO feel In the way
of pain at tho hands Of the Heavenly Hus-
bandman when "the shoIk OF corn coneth
In in his season."
Perhaps now this may be au answer to a
question which asked one Sabbath morn.
ing, but did not answer, Why is it that SO
many really good peope have so dreadtully
TO sutfer' You often find q gooi man with
enough pains and aches and distreSses YOU
would think, to discipline a whole c1ouy,
while you will find a mau who is perfectly
useless going about with easy dig sstiou AMI
steady nerves AMI shining health, aud his
exit from the world is comparatively pain.
less. How do you explain that Well, |
noticed in the husSing time that the husE-
ing peg was thrust into the cora, and then
there must DO a stout pull be;ors the swath-
ing was taken off the ear an the full, round,
healthy, luxuriant corn was developed
WHILE on the other hand there was cora
that hardly soomei worth nusking.
We threw that into pitcs alt Dy itsslf
and we called II nubbins Some Of it was
mildewed, and some Of twas mice nib5lei,
apd some o; it was great promises an n,
fulfllment. All cobs aud no corn, Nubbin>,
After the good corn had been driven no TO
the barn We came around with the corn
basket AMI we picked up these nubbius
Tney wsro worth saving, but not worth
much. so ali around US there ara ,ople
who amount 10 comparatively nothing
They devp'op into no kind of usefulness.
They are nibblei on one side By the world,
and nibbled on the other 81 10 by the devil,
and mildeweG all over, Great propis, and
no fultlment. All CO.'S AMI no corn. Nub-
bins! They~are worth sav.n.. | suppose
many OF them will get to ,avsn, but they
are not worthy TO ps mentioned in thu same
day with those who went throu III great
tribulation into the kingdom OF our Col
Who would not rather have the pains OF
this life the mstor.uHes o this lfe-who
would not rather be torn anl woul1 del AMI
lacerated and wrencdel and husls and at
last go In amid the very b'st grain o: ths
yranery than to be pronouncei not worth
husking atall Nuobins, In other words,
want to say to you peDple W 70 have distress
Of body and distress in busn IS an distress
Of all sorts the Lord has not any CRU igs
against you. IL is not dero -ltory; it Is
Complimentary. "Whon the lord ioveth
He chasteneth," and it is p-ooi positive thlt
there Is omething vaiu1b.e in yoI, or the
Lord would no. have huskc you.
You remember also TINT in the time OF
huskiny IL was neiShboThooi reunion. BY
the great fireplace in the winter the fires
roaring arounl the glorihoi ba:klogs on an
old-fashionei hearth, ot which the modern
stoves and registers are only II, degen crate
descendants the farmers used to gather AMI
speni the evening, and there would bs much
sociality; but IL was not anything like the
ioy of the huSking TIM, for then all the
farmers came, and they cans in the very
best humor, an / they cams from beyond the
meadow. and they came from beyond the
brook, and they came from re ;tons two AMI
three miles around.
Good spirits reigne supreme. and there
we're great handsho iingS, ani there was
carnival, and there was the recital OF the
brightest experience in all their lives, and
there was neighborhood reunion the men,
ory OF which makes all ths nerves OF my
DO iy tremble with emotion as the strings OF
harp when the fingers OF the player hava
swept the chords. The husking tune was the
time OF neighborhool reunion, and SO
heaven will b. just that There they come
upi They slept in the old village church.
yard. There they como up! They reclinsd
amid tho fountains and the sculpture aud the
parterres Of n city cemetery. There they
come upl They went down when the ship
foundered Off Cape Hatteras. They come up
from all sides-from potterS field and out
of the solid masonry OF Westminster A bbey.
They come upl They come upl
All the hindrance to their bstter nature
husked Off. All their spiritual despond-
eucies huskel Off. All their hindrancss to
usefulness husked Off. The grain, the
golden grain, the God fashioned grain,
visible and conspicuous. Some Of them on
you could hardly stand it in their presence.
Now in heaven they are No radiant you
hardly know them. The fact Is all their
imparfections have bean husSed of. They
did not mean on earth to bs disagreeable.
They meant well enough, but they told
you how sick you looked, and they toll you
how many hard things they had heard about
you, and they told you how often they had
10 stand up for you In some battles until
you wished almost that they had been slain
u so ne OF the battles. Good. pious, con-
centrated, well meaning di 'ayreeaoes. Now
in heaven all their ofRsnsivenesI has been
husked off. Each one is as happy as he can
| De. Every one he meets as happy as he can
| oe.
Heaven-one great nei ghborhooi re. union.
All kings and queens, all songsters, all mil
lionares, all banqueters. Col the Father
with His children all around Him. No
"goodby" in all the air. No grave cut in
| ali the hills. River OF crystal rolling over
bed Of pearl. under arch OF chrysoprase in
to seas of glass mingled with fire. Stand al
| the gate OF the granary AMI seq ths grain
come In; out OF the frosts into the sunshine,
| out of the darkness into the light. out OF the
tearing. AMI the ripping, and the twisting,
aud tbs wrenching and lacerating, an th'
husking time OF earth into the wids oper
door OF the Kings grauary 'iike asa shoci
OF corn cometh In in his season"
Yes, heaven is great sociable, with jo.
like the joy OF husking time. No one ther
feeling so big he declines to speak to som
| one that Is not so large. Archangel wllini
to listen to smallest cherub. No boiling o
the door OF caste at oue heavenly mansion
to keep out the citizen OF a smaller mansion
| No clique in one corner whispering about