The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-12-08
OF coming in OF last 'like q shock Of
corn coming in in his season.
THE HUsKING PEc7

corn coming IN in his season.
THE HusKINa PEG, s
81 course, the husking time made
rough work with the ear Of corn. The
hulsklng peg had to be thrust in, and
gne hard thumb of the husker had to
come down with the swathing Of the
ear, and then there WAS g. pull and
there was q ruthless tearing, and then
g complete swapping off before the
corn was tree, and if the husk could
nave spoken it would have said tsWhy
DO you lacerate me? Why do:you
wrench me?' All, my friends, that is
the way God has arranged that the
ear and the husk shall part, and that
IS the way he has arranged that the
body and soul shall separate. You
can afford to have your physical dis
tresses when you know that they are
only forwarding the souls liberation.
Every rheumatic pain is only a plunge
OF the husking peg. Every neuralgia
ttwinge 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 husk off the
Immortality. There ought TO be great
consolation in this for all who have
chronic ailments, since the Lord is
gradually and more mildly taking
away from you that which hinder's
your souls liberation, doing gradually
ior 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,
Will never have to suffer that again.
Thank God, am so much nearer the
hour OF liberation" You will meyer
suffer the same pain twice. You may
have a new pain in an old place, but
never the same pain twice. The pain
does it's work and then it dies. Just
50 many plunges of the crowbar to
tree the quarrystone 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 all
ments and disorders are only paying
lnstallments 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
"the shock OF corn cometh in in his
season."
ALL EQUAL. ~ ~
Yes, Heaven is a great sociable,
with Joy like the Joy at
the husking time. No one there
feeling so big he declines to speak
to some one that is not so large.
Archangel willing to listen to smallest
cherub. No boiling OF the door of
caste at one heavenly mansion to
keep out, the citizen of a smaller man
sion. No clique in one corner whisper
Ing about a clique in another corner.
David taking none Of the airs of q
giant-killer. Joshua making no one
halt until he passes, because he made
the sun and moon halt. Paul max !
ing no assumption over the most ordi- |
nary preacher OF righteousness.
Naaman, captain of the Syrian host,
no more honored than the captive
maid who I old him where he could |
ges q GOOD doctor. O, my soul, what
q country! The humblest man a king.
The poorest woman a queen. The
meanest house a palace. The short
est lifetime eternity. And what is
more strange about it all we NAV all
get there. mot l." says some one
standing back under the galleries.
Yes, you. "Not l." says some one
who has not been in church in fifteen
years before. Yes, you. Not T."
says some one who has been for fifty
years filling up his life with all kinds
OF wickedness. Yes, you. There are
on earth, monoplistic
railroads, and monopolistic telegraph
companies, and monopolistic grain
dealers, but no nonopolieslin religion.
All who want to be saved may be
saved, without money land without
price" Salvation by the Lord Jesus
Christ for all the people. OF course,
use common sense in this matter.
You can not expect toget to Charles
ton by taking the ship for Portland,
and you can not get to heaven by 60
ing in an opposite direction. Believe
in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved. Through that one
gate OF pardon and peace all the race
may 60 in. Is
"But,' says someone, lido you
really think 1 would be at home in
that supernal societyif I should reach
lt?" think you would. know you
would. remember that in the husk-
ing time there was great equality OF
ceiling among the neighbors. There
at one, cornshock farmer would be
at work who owned 200 acres Of
ground. The man whom he
was talking to at the next corn
shock owned but thirty acres of
ground, and perhaps oil that +
covered by mortgage. Thatevening.
1t the close Of the husking day, one
nan drove home a roam span so
risky, SO full Of lie, they got their
eet over the traces. The other man
walked home. Great difference in
,ducation, great difference in worldly
means; but Noticed at the husking
lime they all seemed to enjoy each
others society. They did not ask
INV man how nnnch nro,,ertv hA owned