The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-28

But after awhile the sun was high up and all
the frosts went out Of the air, and hilari;tes
awakened the echoes, and JOY from one corn
shock went up, "Aha, ahsm and was an
swered by joy from another corn-shock,
saba, aham So we all realize that the
death OF our friend is the nippiug of
many expectations, the freezing, the
chilling, the frosting Of many Of our
hopes II is far from being a south wind.
It comes out OF the frigid north, and when
they 90 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,
"Will we ever get over it?' Yes, we will
get over il amid tee shoutings of heavenly
reunion, aud we will look back to all thess
distresses of bereavement only as the tenn
porary distresses Of husking time. Weep
ing may endure for night, bit Joy cometh
in the morning" Light, and but for a
moment" said the apostle as he cIapped his
hands, Eight, and but for a moment" The
chill of the frosts followed by the gladness
shat cometh In like shock of corn
cometh In In his season."
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
pull ana there was a ruthless tearing, and
then a complete swapping off before the corn
was free, and il the husk could have spoken
IL would have said: why do you lacerate
mel Why do you wrench meN All! my
friends, that Ia 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
srxly q r%l ~ ha hua
neuralgia twinge Is only 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 husk off the NOR
telity from the immortality. There ought
10 DO great consolation In this for all who
have chronic ailments, since the Lord is
gradually and more mildly taking away
from you that which binders your SOULS
liberation. doing gradually for you what
for many Of us In robust health perhaps he
viii do In one fell blow at the last. At the
close Of every illness, at the close OF every
peroxysm you ought to say, THANK, God,
that 10 all passed now; thank
God, will never have TO suffer
that again; thank God, | am so much
nearer the hour Of liberation" You viii
never suffer the same pain twice. You
may nave q new pain al c4u DlhC6, UuL
never the same pain twice. The pain does |
its work and then it dies. just so many |
plunges of the crowbar 20 free the quarry |
stone for the building. Just so many |
strokes Of the chjsel TO complete the statue. |
Just so many pangs TO separate the soul
from the body. You who have chronic all
ments and disorders are only paying IN in
btallments that which some of US will have
20 pay In one payment when we pay the
debt Of nature. Thank God, therefore, ye
who have chronic disorders that you have
20 much less suffering at the last. Thank
God that you will have SO much less to feel
In the way of pain ar the hands of the
heavenly husbandmsn when "the shock
of corn cometh in in his season."
Perhaps now this may be All answer to a
question which asked one Sabbath morn
ing, but did not answer: Why is it that 30
many really good people have so dreadfully
10 suffer- You often find 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 comparatively
painless. How to you explain thatl Well,
j noticed In the husking time that the
husking-peg was thrust into the corn and
then there must be a stout pull before the
swathing was taken off the ear and
the full, round. healthy, luxuriant
corn was developed; while on tho
other hand there was corn that hardly
seemed worth husking. We threw that into
place all by itself, and we called 1t "nub-
bins. ~" 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. Nubblnsl After the good
corn had been driven up to the barn we
came around with the corn basket aud we
picked up these nubbins They were worth
saving but not worth much. So all around
US there are people who amount to compare
lively nothing. They develop into no kind
of usefulness. They are nibhled on one
side by the world, and nibbled on the other
side by the devil, and widowed all over.
Great promise and no fulillment. All
cobs and no corn. NubbiDsl They are
worth saving. ! suppose many OF them
will get 20 heaven, but they are not
worthy 10 be mentioned In the same day
with those who went through great tribu-
lation into the kingdom of our God. Who
would not rather have the pains of this life,
the misfortunes OF this life-who would not
rather be torn and wounded, lecerated and
wrenched, and husked, and at last 20 in
amid the very best grain of the granary,
than to be pronounced not worth huskinq
ct alls Nubbinsl In other word, want TO
say to you people who have distress of the
body. and distress in business and distress of
all sorts. the Lord has not any grudge
against you. 1t is not derogaJory, it is
complimentary. "Whom the Lord loveth
he ohasteneth," and it is proof positive that
there Is something valuable in you, or the
Lord would not have husked you.
Yon remember also. that in the time of
husking 10 was a neighborhood reunion.
BY the great fireplace in the winter, the
TRES roaring around the glorified back logs
on an old-fashioned hearth, of which the
modern stoves and registers are only the
degenerate descendants, the farmers used Co
gather and spend the evening, and there
would be much seoiality, but it was not
anything like the joy of the husking time,
for then all the farmers came, and they |
came in the very best humor, and they |
came from beyond the meadow, aud |
they came from beyond the |
brook, and they came from regions
two and three miles around, |
Good spirits reigned supreme, and there |
were great handshakings, and there was |
carnival, and there was the recital Of the |
brightest experiences in all their lives, and |
ther was a neiRhborhood reunion, the |
memory of which makes ell the nerves Of |
my body tremble with emotion as the
strings of harp when the fingers of the
player have swept the chords. The husking
time was the time of neighborhood reunion,
aud 80 heaven will be just that There |
they come mi They SILENT in the old viii |