The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-29


of death as though it were the disaster
of disasters instead of being to a good
man the blessing of blessings. 1t Is
moving ont of cold vestibule into a
warm temple. 1t is migrating into
groves of redolence and perpetual fruit
age. 1t is a change from bleak March,
to roseate June. 1t is change Of man
acles for garlands. 1t is the transmit
ing of the iron handouts of earthly III
generation into the diamonded wriStlets
of a bridal party, or, to use the sugges-
ton of my text, it is only husking time.
1t is the tearing off of the rough sheath
of the body that the bright and the beau
tiful soul may go free. Coming in like
a shock of corn cometh III in his sea
SON." Christ broke up a funeral pro
cession at the gate of Main by making
a resurrection day for yOung man and
his mother, and | would that L could
break up your sadnesses 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
huskers. You remember we used tC
hide between the corn stacks so as to
keep off tie wind, but still you remem-
Der 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 hiIarities
awakened the echoes, and joy from one
corn shock went up. AHA, ahar' ana
was answered by JOY from another corn
shock. ''Aha, ahaw
So we all realize that the death of our
friend is the nipping of many expecta-
tions, the freezing, the chilling, the
frosting of many of our hopes. 1t is far
from being Il south wind. 1t comes out
of the frigid north, and when they go
away from us we stand benumbed i'll
BODY. and benumbed in mind, and be-
numbed in soul. We stand among our
dead neighbors, our dead families, and
we say. viii we ever get over it?~
Yes, we will get over it amid the shout
ings of heavenly reunion. and we will
look back to all these distresses of be
reavement only as the temporary dis
tresses of husking time. Weeping may
endure for IA 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 a mo-
ment." The chill of the frOsts followed
by the gladness that cometh i'll like
shock of corn cometh in in his season"
OFF WITH THIS HUSK OF FLESH!
OF course the husking 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
then there was d pull, and there was n
ruthless tearing, and then complete
swapping off before the corn was free,
and if the husk could have spoken il
would have said: why do you lacerate
me? Why do you wrench me-" All,
my friends, that is the way God has ar
ranged 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 pair is only plunge
of the hUsking peg. Every neuralgia
twinge is only twist by the husker
There is roid i'll you that must come ont
Some way the shackle must be broken
Some3way the ship must be launched
for heavenly voyage. You must lei
the Heavenly Husbandman husk of
the lnOr'"li Y from the Immortality
There OF =. t. be great consolation IL
this 40 have chronic ailments,
sine, $)rd is gradually and more
mild ;away from you that which
hinders Jour souls liberation, doing
gradually for you what for many of us
in robust health perhaps ne will do i'll
one fell blow at the last. At the clos,
of every illness, at the close of every
parOxysm, you ought TO say, ''Thanh
God, that is all past now; thank God.
will never have to suffer that again:
thank God, l am so much nearer the
hour of liberation"
You Will never suffer the same pair
twice. You may have new pain III an
old place, but never the same pain twice.
The pain does its work. and then it dies.
Just so many plunges of the crowbar t.
free the quarry stone for the building.
Just so many strokes of the chisol t.
complete the statue. Just so mani
pangs to separate the soul from the body.
You who have chronic ailments and dis
orders 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, yt
who have chronic disorders, that you
have so mpch less suffering at the last
Thank God that you will have 50 Inuci
less to feel in the way of pain at TN,
hands of the Heavenly Husbandlnal
when 1.-The shock of corn conleth- i'll il.
his season."
Perhaps now this may be an answer
to question which asked one Sabbath
morning, but did not answer, Why is il
that so many really good people have Sc
dreadfully TO suffer? You often find =
good man with enough pains ard aches
and distresses, you would think, TO dis
cipline whole colony, while you will
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