Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-28

Tag GREAT BROOKLYN DVgB CHOOSES AN
APPROPRIATE TEXT
eas Shook Of Corn Ccmsh in in His Season. -
Apt SMILES Prom ihs Text Teach Moral
IsSsons-Your Husking Day at
Hali-God's Grauary.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, November 81
Rev Dr. Talmage to-day chose for his
subject Of discourse one eminentIy
suited % the time following the Ingath-
ering OF toe HarVeStS, and TO the
Thanksgiving season. The decorations
ofthe thanksgiving Day still remained
on the platform and she galleries, and
long rows of yellow and white corn on
the front and back OF the platform were
in accord with the sermon. The text
selected was ''As Shock of Corn Com
eth in 10 His Season" (Job 5:26.)
This Is the time OF the year for husk-
ing corn II you have recently been IN
the fields OF Pennsylvania, or New
Jersey, or New York, or New England,
or I'M any Of the country districts, you
know that the corn is all cut. The
SHARP knife stuck through the stalks
and left them all along the fields until
man came with bundle Of straw and
twisted a few OF these wiSps OF straw
into 3 band, and then gathering up IS
much of the corn rs be could compass
with his arms, he bound it with this
wisD OF straw, and then stool IL in the
field q what IS called q shock. There
are now az least two billion bushels of
corn either standing in the shock, or
having been already huSked. The
farmers gather, one day on one farm,
and then another day on another
farm, and they put on their rough husk-
ing apron, and they take the husking
peg, which is piece of iron with
leathern loop fastened 70 the hand, and
with itunshe2th the corn from the huSk
and toss To into the golden heap. Then
the wagons come along and take it 10
the c0fn-crlb.
About corn as en- Important cereal or
corn as metaphor the Bible is con-
stantly speaking. You know about the
people 60 famine time coming 10 buy
corn OF Joseph, and the foxes on fire
running into the standing corn, and
then about the oxen treading out the
corn, and about the seven thin ears Of
corn that
IN PHARAOH'S DREAM
devOured the seven good ears, and the
"Darched corn" handed to beautiful
Ruth by the harveSters of Bethlehem,
and AUigai's five measures Of "parched
corn" with which she hoped 20 apDease
the enemies Of her drunken husband,
aOd Davld's description Of the valleys
covered over with corn" and 1.-The
handful OF corn In the earth, and ''the
full corn In the ear, and Christ's morn
ing walk through corn fields, and the
disciples 'plucking ears Of corn" and
so I am not surprised 70 find cOrn-husk-
ing time referred 20 IN my text: "AS a
shock Of corn cOmeth IN in his season."
How viYidly 20 all those Of Us who
were born IN the country comes the re-
membrane Of hnsking time. We wait
ed for ii as fOra gala day OF the year.
II was called a frOlic. The trees hav-
ing for the most part shed their foliage,
the farmers Waded through the fallen
leaves and came through the keen |
morning air TO the gleeful company. /
The fr0sts which had si.vered every |
- ~ Ly95f "a s,laag iEht- began TO melt !
of the TO of the cOrn-shOcks. While /
the farmers were waiting for others, /
they stood blowing their breath through /
their fingers or thrashing their arms /
around their body to keep up warmth /
Of circulation. Roaring mirth greeted !
the late farmer as he erawled over |
the fence. Joke and repartee /
and rustic salutatiOn ab0unded. AL /
ready, nOWl The men take hold Of the /
shock OF corn and hurl it PROSTATE, /
while the mOles and mice which have 4
secreted themselves there for warmth, /
attempt escape. The Withe of straw iS
ilyc I'D f-vq the cOrn-ShOck and the /
stalks heavy with tA5 wealth of grain
are rolled into two bundles between /
which the husker sits down. The husk
Ing peg is thrust In until 10 strikes she |
corn, and then the fingers rip of the
sheathing Of the ear, and there is a
crack es the root Of the corn is snapped
of from the husk. and the grain diSim-
pTisOned is hurled up into the sunlight.
THE AIR IS so TONIC,
the work is so very exhilerating, the
company is so blithe, that some laugh,
and some shout, and some sing, and
some banter, and some tease q neighbOr
for 3 romantic ride along the edge Of
the woods In an eyentide, in a carriage
that holds but two, and some Drophesy
as % the number of bushels to the field,
and others 90 into competition as TO
which shall rifle the most corn shocks
before sun down. After q while the
dinner horn sounds from the farmhouse
and she table is surrounded by a group
Of Jolly and hungry men. From all the
pantries and the cellars aud the perches
Of fowl on the place the richest dainties
come, aud there is carnival and neigh
0OrhOOd reunion, and scene which fills
bur memory, part with smiles, but more
with tears, as we remember that the
'arm belongs now to other owners, and
3ther hands gather in the field, and
many of those who mingled in that
merry husking scene have themselves
been reaped, ''like as a shock OF corn
s0meth in In his season"
There IS q difference Of opinion as to !
whether the Orientals knew anything |
about the corn as it stands in our fields;
but recent discoveries have found out !
.hat the Hebrew knew al about Indian
maize, for there have been grains OF |
corn picked up Of ancient cryptS and
8xhumed from hiding-places where
.hey we're put down many centuries I
lgO, and they have been planted in our
lime and have come up just such In
iian maize as we raise in New York !
md Ohio; so I am right when I say {
hat my text may refer to q shock OF I
.qrn just as you and / bound it, just as !
10u and I threw it; just as you and /
lusked it, There may come some prae- {
zeal and useful and comforting lessons y
10 en- our souls, while we think OF COM
ng ia at last "like q sheck Of cora COM ]
ug In in his season"
1T Is HIGH TIME
hat the King Of Terrors be thrown
,gt OF the Christian vocabulary. A
Tast multitude Of people talk Of death
IS though it were the disaster Of disas-
ers Instead of being 20 a good man the
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