Milford chronicle., 1892-12-02

Ut uedu uelEnDOlsr our ueAQ families, ant
r. we say, will we ever get over it?n Yes
we Will get over it amid the shoutings oi
'e heavenly reunion, and we will look back Il
v all these distresses Of bereavement only as
the temporary distresses of husking time
weeping may endure for a night but ioy
e cometh in the morning" Light, and but
e for a moment" said the apostle as be
z clapped his hands, light, and but for a
e moment" The chill Of the frosts followed
4 by the gladness that cometh in like a
0 shock Of corn cometh in in his season"
2 or course the husking time made rough
t 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 then there
was a pull and there was ruthless tear
Z ing, and then complete swapping of be-
z fore the corn was free, and if the husk
, could have spoken it would have said:
I why do you lacerate met Why do you
wrench me?" All, 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 souls
liberation. Every rheumatic pain is only
plunge Of the husking peg. Every neu-
ralgic 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 Heav-
enly Husbandman 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 gradu-
ally and more mildly taking away from
you that which hinders your. SOULS liberia
tion, 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, l will |
never have to suffer that again; thank |
I God, I am so much nearer the hour of lib |
eration."
You will never suffer the same pain l
twice You may have a new pain in an old 1
place, but never the same pain twice. The !
pain does its work and 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
statue just so many pangs to separate
the soul from the body. 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."
THE SORROWS OF THIS LIFE.
Perhaps now this may be an answer to a
question which asked one Sabbath morn
ing, but did not answer, Why is it that
so many really good people have so dread {
fully to suffer- You often find a good ,
man with enough pains and aches and dis r
tresses, you would think, to discipline a J
whole colony, while you will find a man r
who is perfectly useless going about with !
easy digestion and steady nerves and shin T.
ing health, and his exit from the world is 7
painless. How do you ex- i
plain that2 Well, l noticed in the husking +
time that the husking peg was thrust into y
the corn, and then there must be a stout ! I,
pull before the swathing was taken off the >
EAR and the full, round, healthy, luxuriant Il
corn was developed, while, on the other 5,
hand, there was corn that hardly seemed
worth husking. y
We threw that into place all by itself,
md we called it nubbins. Some of it Ii
= dlo Aill0GWtAAf hAAA oDAAG VI IL WAS UllCG ! a
libbled, and some of it was great promise n,
md no fulfllment. All cobs and no corn. s
Nubbinsl After the good corn had been m
lriven up to the barn we came around h,
With the corn basket, and we picked up II
hese nubbins. They were worth saving, | M
mt not worth much. So all around us si
here are people who amount to compara- q
lively nothing. They develop into no kind an
usefulness. They are nibbled on one side si
y the world, and nibbled on the other "
ide by the devil, and mildewed all over. or
treat promise and no fulfillment. All cobs ba
nd no corn. Nubbinsl They are worth in,
aving. suppose many of them will get
D heaven, but they are not worthy to be So
lentioned in the same day with those who Of
'ent through great tribulation into the To-
ingdom of our God. pI
Who would not rather have the pains Of at
lis life, the misfortunes Of this life-who ~
ould not rather be torn and wounded and n,
lcerated and wrenched and husked and ~
} last go in amid the very best grain of tn,
le granery-than to be pronounced not IN,
orth husking at allg Nubbinsf IN other mi
ords want TO say to you people who am
ave distress of body and distress in bust sb,
sss and distress Of all sorts, the Lord has
1t any grudge against you. 1t is not de I
gatory; it is complimentary. Whom bul
e Lord loveth he chasteneth," and it is ING
oof positive that there is something as
.luable in you, or the Lord would not at
we husked you. cut
REJOICE TOGETHER. tho
You remember also that in the time Of Hs
Isking It was nelghDorhood reunion. tho
: the great fireplace in the winter the rem
es roaring around the glorified backlogs mis-
AN old fashioned hearth, of which the In
)dern stoves and registers are only the
descendants, the farmers used ~
gather and spend the evening, and there ~ ~
Iuld be much sociality; but it was not ust
ything like the Joy Of the husking time, VI
then all the farmers came, and they see
ne in the very best humor, and they
ne from beyond the meadow, and they ans
ne from beyond the brook, and they tfl'
ne from regions two and three miles gol
,und. ana
iood spirits reigned supreme, and there ner
re great handshakings, and there was tac'
nival, and there was the recital of the Den
ghtest experience in all their lives, and Wss
re was a neighborhood reunion the mar
mory Of which makes all the nerves of TO
body tremble with emotion as the ing
Sud
ngs Of a harp when the fingers Of the mir
yer have swept the chords. The husk- fror
time was the time Of neighboyhood re-
oh' anu 50 heaFeh VIII DC JusI Gnat. ceiy
ire tney come upl They slept In the heal
village churcnyard. lhere they come nigl
Ihey reclined amid the fountains and ever
sculpture and the parterres OF city that
letery' Ihere they come ppl They SO o.
1t down when the ship foundered off h a
le Hatteras. They come up from all new
's-from potter's field and out Of the Ol
d masonry Of Westminster abbey rich
y come up They come upI ble I
Il the hindrances to their better nature imm
ked off. All their spiritual despond- SOM
es husked of. All their hindrances of y
sefulness husked off. The grain, the out
len grain, the God fashioned grain, ers
BILE and conspicuous. Some of them on an q
h were such disagr ,eable Christians patb
could hardly stand it IN their presence. thos,