Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-12-02

into the diamonded wristlets of n
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 a shock of corn cometh in in his
season." Christ broke up a funeral
procession at the gate of Main by maxi
ing resurrection day for n young
man and his mother. And / would
that could, break up your sadnesses
and halt the long funeral procession of
the worlds grief by some cheerful view
of the last transition.
We all know that husking time was
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 huskers. You re-
member we used TO hide between the
corn-stacks SO as to keep off the wind,
but still you remember how shivering
was the body and how painful was the
check, 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 our corn
shock went up, "Aha, ahaw and was
answered by JOY from another corn
shock, AHA, ahar' So we all realize
that the death of our friend is the nip
ring of many eXpections, the freezing,
the chilling, the frosting of many OF
our hopes. 1t is far from being
south wind. 1t comes out of the frigid
north, and when they go away from
us we stand benumbed in body and be-
numbed in mind and benumbed in
soul. We stand among our dead
neighbors, our dead families, and
we say, "Will we ever get over
it?" Yes, we will get over it
amid the shoutings OF heavenly re-
union, and we will look back to all
these distresses of bereavement only as
the temporary distresses of husking
time. Weeping NAV endure for "a
night, but JOY cometh in the morning"
Light, and but for a moment" said
the apostle as he clapped his hands,
light, and but for moment" The
chill of the frosts followed by the
gladness that cometh in ''lile a shock
of corn cometh in in his season"
OF course, the husl1ing time made
rough work with the ear of corn. The
husking peg had to be thrust in and
the hard thumb of the husker had to
come down on the swathing of the ear
and ruthless tearing, and then a COM
plete swapping off before the corn was
free, and If the husk could have spoken
it would have said, "Why doyou LAGER
ate me? Why do you wrench me?" All!
my friends, that is the way God has ar
ranged that the ear and huslI shall part,
and that is the way he has arranged
that the body and the soul shall sep
arate. You can afford 10 have yonr
physical distresses when you know
that they are only forwarding the
souls liberation. Every rheumatic
pain is only plunge of the husl1ing
peg. Every neuralgia twinge is only
twist by the husl1er. There is gold in
you that must come out. Some way
the shackle must be broken. Some
way the ship mast be launched for
heavenly voyage! You must let the
Heavenly Hus bandman husk off the
mortality from the immortality. There
ought to be great consolation in this
for all who have chronic ailme ats,
since the Lord is gradually and more
mildly taking away from you that
which binders your souls liberia ton,
doing gradually for you what for many
Of us in robust health perhaps he will
do in one fell blow at the last. At the
close of every illness, at the close of
every paroXysm you ought to say,
THANK God, that is all past now;
thank God, / never have to suffer
that again; thank God, / am so much
nearer the hour of liberation" You
will never suffer the same pain twice.
You may have new pain in an old
place, but never the same pain twice.
The pain does its. work and then dies.
Just so many plunges of the crowbar
to free the quarry stone for the build
ing. Just SO many strokes of the
chisel to complete the statue. Just so
many pangs TO separate the
soul from the badly. You who
have chronic ailments and disorders,
are only paying in installments that
which some of us will have to pay in
one payment when we pay the debt Of
nature. Thank God, therefore, We who
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 the
hands of the Heavenly Husbandman
when 1.-The shock of corn cometh in in
his season"
Perhaps now this may be an answer
to question which asked one Sabbath
morning, but did not answer. Why is
it that SO many really good people
have so dreadfully to suffer? You often
find good man with enough pains
and aches and distresses, you would
think, to discipline n whole colony,
while you will lind man who is per-
fectly useless going about with easy
digestion and steady nerves and
shining health, and his exit from
the world is comparatively painless.
How do yen explain that? Well, no.
ticed in the hnsking time that the
husking-peg was thrust into the corn
and then there must be q stout pull be-
fore the swathing was taken of the
ear and the full, round, healthy, luxu-
rant corn was developed; while on the
other hand there was corn that hardly
seemed worth husking. We threw
that into place all by itself, and we
called it ''nubbins." Some of it was
widowed, and some of it was mice
nibbled, and some of it was great
promise and no fulfillment All cobs
and no corn. Nubbinsl After the
good corn had been driven up to the
barn we came around with the
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