Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-03
HUSKING TIME.
Harvest Home Discourse By Rev.
DR.. Talmage.
.GAthcring tho GRAIN That II Ripe For
the IInrveSt-The Flnal Gnrncr.
Ing OF 'he Great Crop
OF Souls.

IN HIS SCaSOn, JOD W ~, Dr' 1ulmhBo
said:
This is the time of the year for husk-
ing corn. If 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 man came with bundle
of straw and twisted q few Of these
'wisps OF straw into band, and then
gathering up as much of the corn rs he
could compass with his arms, he bound
with his wisp of straw. and then stood
it in the field in what Is called shock.
About corn as an imported cereal or
corn as u metaphor, the Bible is con-
rstantly speaking. You know about
people in the famine coming to buy
corn of Joseph, and the foxes on fire
running into the standing corn" and
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 ''pnrched
corn" handed to beautiful Ruth by the
harvesters of Bethlehem, and AbigaiPs
five measures of "parched corn" with
which she hoped to appease the enc
Inies of her drunken husband, and
David's description of the valleys 'cov-
cred over with corn" and ''the 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 l am not surprised to find corn
.husking time referred to in my text:
-'As shock Of corn cometh in in his
season"
There is a 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
that the Hebrew knew all about Indian
maize, for there have been grains of
corn picked up out of ancient crypts
and cXhumcd from hiding places where
they were put down many centuries
ago and have been planted in our time
and have come up just such Indian
maize rs we raise in New York and
Ohio; so am right when say that my
text may refer to shock of corn just
AS you and bound it, just as you and
There may come some practical and
useful and comforting lessons to all our
souls, while we think of coming in at
last ''ilxe shock of corn coming in in
his season."
1t is high time that the King of Ter
-rors was thrown out of the Christian
vocabulary. A vast multitude of peo-
pie talk of death as though it were the
disaster of disasters instead of being to
a good man the blessing Of blessings.
1t is moving out of q cold vostibule into
"a warm temple. 1t is migrating into
groves of redolence and perpetual fruit
age. 1t is change from bleak March
to roseate June. 1t is q change of
7manacles for gnrlands. It Is the
transmitting of the iron handouts OF
earthly incarceration into the dia-
.monded wrislets OF a bridal party;
or, to use the suggestion Of my text, IL
is only husking time. 1t is the tearing
off of the rough sheath of the body that
the bright and the beautiful soul may
go free. Coming in like q shock of
corn cometh in in his season" Christ
broke up a funeral procession at the
gate of Main by making resurrection
day for n young man and his mother.
And / would that l could break up
your sadness and halt the long funeral
procession of the worlds grief by some
cheering and cheerful view of the last
transition.
We all know that husking time was a
time of frost. Frost on the fence.
Frost on the stubble Frost on the
ground. Frost on the bare branches of
,the trees. Frost in the air. Frost on
the hands of the huslrers. You remem-
her we used to hide between the corn
stacks so as to keep of the wind, but
still you remember how shivering was
the body and how painful was the
cheek and how benumbed were the
hands. But after awhile the sun was
high up and all the frosts went out of
the air and hilarities awakened the
echoes, and joy from one corn shock
went up, AHA, aha! and was an
severed by joy from another corn shock.
"Aha. ahai" So we all realize
that the death of our friend is
the nipping of many expectations,
the freezing, the chilling, the frosting
of many of our hopes. 1t is far from
being a south wind II comes out of
the frigid north, and when they go
away from us we stand benumbed in
body and benumbed in mind and be-
-numbed in soul We stand among our
dead neighbors, our dead families, and
we say: ''Wil we ever get over it?"
Yes we will get over 1t amid the shout
dings of heavenly reunion, and we will
look back to all these distresses of be-
7reavement only as the temporary dis
tresses of huszing time. Weeping
may endure for a night but Joy cometh
in the morning." Light, and but for
a moment" said the apostle, as he