The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-09

there was great equality CT feeling
among the neighbors. There at one
corn shock a 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 all that covered
by a mortgage. That evening, at the
close of the huslzing day, one man
drove home roam span so
frisky, so full of life, they got
their feet over the trace. The other
man walked home. Great difference in
education, great difference in worldly
means; but I noticed at the husking
time they all seemed to enjoy each
others society. They did not ask any
man how much property he owned or
what his education had been. They all
seemed to be happy together in those
good times. And so it will be in Heaven.
Our Father will gather His children
around Him, and the neighbors will
come in, and the past will be rehearsed.
And some one will tell of victory, and
we will all celebrate it. And some one
will tell of great struggle, and we will
all praise the grace that fetched him
out of it. And some one will say:
Here is my old father that l put
away with heartbreak; Just look at
him, he is as young as any of u.s."
And some one will say: "Hcre
is is my darling child that buried in
Greenwood, and all the after years of
my life were Swallowed with desolation
just look at her! She descent seem
as if she had been sick a minute"
Great sociality. Great neighborhood
kindness. Go in and dine.
All the shocks of corn coming in in
their season. o, yes, in their season.
Not one of you having died too soon, or
having died too late, or having died at
haphazard. Planted at just the right
time, plowed at just the right time.
Cut down at Just the right time.
Husked at just the right time. Gar
nered at just the right time. Coming
in in your season.
1 do not know how you are consti-
tuted, but 1 am so constituted that
there is nothing that so awakens rem
iniscences in me as the odors of n corn
field when cross it at this time of year
after the corn has been cut and it
stands in shocks. And so l have
thought it might it be practically USE
full for us to-day to cross the corntield,
and l have thought perhaps there
might be some "reminiscences reused in
our soul that might be salutary and
might be saving. In Sweden a
prima donna, while her house in the
city was being repaired, took a
house in the country for temporary
residence, and she brought out her
great array of jewels to show friend
who wished to see them. One night,
after displaying these jewels, and leav-
ing them on the table, and all her
friends had gone, and the servants had
gone-one summer night-she sat
thinking and looking into mirror just
in front of her chair, when she saw in
that mirror the face of a robber look
ing in at the window behind her and
gazing at those Jewels. She was in
great fright, but sat still, and, hardly
knowing why she did SO, she began to
sing an old nursery song, her fears
making the pathos of the song more
telling. Suddenly she noticed, while
looking at the mirror, that the robbers
face had gone from the window, and it
did not come back. A few days after
the prima donna received n letter from
the robber, saying: Il heard that the
jewels were to be out that night, and l
came to take them at whatever hazard;
but when ! heard you sing that nursery
song with which my mother so often
sang me to sleep, / could not stand it
and / fled, and L have resolved upon a
new and honest life" O my friends,
there are Jewels in peril richer than those
which lay upon that table that night.
They are the jewels of the immortal soul.
Would God that some song rolling up
out of the deserted nursery of your
childhood, or some song rolling up out
of the cornfields, the song of the husl1-
ers twenty or forty years ago, might
turn all our feet out of the paths of sin
into the paths of righteousness Would
God that those memories waited in on
odor or song might start rs this
moment with swift feet toward that
blessed place where so many of our
loved ones have already preceded us,
''as a shock of corn cometh in in
his season"