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

Frost on the bare branches OF the trees.
Frost ia the air Frost on the hands OF
tbe huskers. You remember we used 10
hide between the corn-stacks so as 10
keep OF the wind, but still you remem-
Der how shivering was the body ana
how painful was the cheek, aud no"
benumbed we're the hands. But AFTER
awhile the sun was high up and all the
frosts went out Of the air, and hilari-
ties awakened the echoes, and JOY from
one corn-shOck went up, "Aha, aha!
and was answered by JOY from another
corp-shOck, 'Aha, ahal" 50 we all re-
aljze that the death Of our friend is the
pioping Of many expectations, the treez-
ing, the chilling, the frOsting OF many
OF our hopes. Ii is far from being
south wind. 1t comes out OF the Irlgld
north, and when they go away from US
we stand benumbed in body and De-
pumbed in mind aud benumbed in soul.
We stand among our dead neighoors,
our dead families, and we say, "Will
we ever get over it?" Yes, we will get
over it amid
THE sHOUTINGs OF HEAVENLY REUNION
and he will look back to all these dis
tresSes OF bereavement only as the
temporary distresseS of huSSing time.
Weeping may endure for night, put
10y cOmeth in the morning" Light,
and but FOR a moment" said the apostle
as he claDped his hands, hight and
but for a moment" The chill OF the
frosts followed by the gladness that
cOmeth In "fike a shock OF corn cometh
in il his season."
OF course, the husking time made
rough work with the ear OF corn. The
husklng geg had to be thrust in and
the hard thumb Of the husker had to
come down on the swathing Of the ear,
and then there was pull and there
was a ruthless tearing, and then
complete swapping off before the corn
was free. aud II the husk coald have
spoken it would have said: "Why do
you lacerate me? Why do you
wrench me?" Ali my friends,
that is the way God has arranged
that the ear and husk shall part, and
that is the way he has arranged that
the body and the soul shall separate.
You can afford to have your physical
distresSeS when you know that they
are only forwarding the sOu's liberia
ton. Every rheumatic pain is only a
plunge of the husAing peg. Every neu-
ralglc twinge is only a twist by the
husker There is gold in you that must
come out. Some way the shaCkle must
be broken. Some way the ship must
be launched for heavenly voyage. You
must let the Heavenly Husbandman
musk of the mortality from the immor-
tality. There ought to be great con-
ISOLATION in this fOrall who have chronic
ailments, 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 Go 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, will never have
TO suffer that again; thank God, 1 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 it dies Just so many plunges Of
the crow-bar TO free the quarry-stone
for the building. Just so many strokes
of the chisel TO complete the statue.
Just so many pangs TO separate the soul
from the body. You who have chronic |
and disorders, are only paying |
instalments that which some of us will |
have to pay in one payment when we
pay the debt Of nature. Thank God,
therefore, ye who have chronic disor-
ders that you have so much less suffer |
ing 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 |
when "the shock Of corn |
cOmeth in in his season."
Perhaps, now, this may be an answer
to a question which I 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 |
a good man with enough pains and |
aches and distresses, you would think,
TO discipline a whole colony, while you |
will find a man who is perfectly useless |
going about with easy digestion and |
steady nerves and shining health, and |
his exit from the world Is paratively |
How do you explain that? |
Well, I noticed in the husking time that |
the husking-peg was thrust intoi the |
corn and then there must be stout |
pull before the swathing was taken OFF |
the ear and the full, round, healthy,
.uxuriant corn was developed; while on
the other hand there was corn that
hardly seemed worth huSking. We |
threw that into a place all by itself, and !
We called il ''nubbins. Some OF it was
aud some of it was mice
libbled, and some Of it was great prom
se 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 corn basket and we
picked up these nubbins. They were
worth saving, but not worth much. So
III around us there are people who
AMOUNT to comparatively nothing. They
develop into no kind of usefulness.
They are nibbled on one side by the
world, and nibbled on the other side by
he devil, and widowed all over. Great
promise and no fulfilment. All cobs
md no corn. Nubbins! They are worth
aving. I suppose many Of them will
get to heaven, but they are not worthy
10 be mentioned in the same day with
hose who went through great tribuls-
ion into the kingdom of our God. Who
would not rather have the pains of this
ife, the misfortunes OF this ltfe-whO
would not rather be torn, and wound
ID, and laeerated, and wrenched,
md husked, and at last go in amid the
Tery best grain In the granary, than TO
,e pronounced not worthy Of husking
It alp Nubbins! In other words, 1
vopt ~ cav N vOn Dp0Dla who have