Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-12-01

the air; frost on the hands of the huskers
( You remember we used TO hide between
I the corn stacks so as TO keep of the wind,
but still you remember how shiverng was
the body asd 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 hilari-
/ ties awakened the echoes, and JOY from one
corn shock went up AHA, aba!n and was
answered by joy from another corn shock,
AHA, ahaM So we all realize that the
death of our friend is the nipping of many
expectations. the freezing, the chilling, the
frosting of many of our hopes. 1t is far
I from being south wind.
1t comes out of the frigid north, and
4 when they go away from us we stand be
numbed in body and beDumbed in mind
/ and benumbed in soul. We stand among
( our dead neighbors, our dead families, and
we say, "Will we ever get over itS' Yes,
we will get over it amid the shoutings Of
heavenly reunion, and we will look back 10
all these distresses of bereavement only as
\ the temporary distresses OF husking time.
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy
cometh i'm the morning" Light, and but
/ for moment said the apostle as he
, clapped his hands; eight, and but for a
moment" The chill Of the frosts followed
I by the gladness that cometh in like
4 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 a pull and there was ruthless tear
4 ing, and then a complete swapping off be-
7 f,r IL a.
could have spoken il would have said
why do you lacerate mei Why do you
wrench meg" 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
a plunge of the husking peg. Every neu-
ralgic 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 Heav-
emily Husbandman husk off the mortality
from the immortality. There ought 10 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
lion, 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
:lose of every illness, at the close of every
1aroxysm, You ought TO say, THANK God,
shat is all past now; thank God, | will
never have TO suffer that again; thank
God, am so much nearer the hour of lib
GRAFTON"
You will never suffer the same pain
twice You may have a new pain in an old
place, but never the same pain twice. The
pain does its work and then it dies. just
so many plunges of the cruwbar 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
ms 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 ut
the hands OF the Heavenly Husbandman
when 1.-THE shock of corn eometh 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 50 dread
fully to suffer- You often find a good
man with enough pains and aches and dis
tresses, you would think, to discipline a
whole colony, while you will find man
who is perfectly useless going about with I
easy digestion and steady nerves and shin /
ing health, and his exit from the world is /
comparatively painless How do You ex
plain thatf Well, 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 the other /
hand. there was corn that hardly seemed (
worth husking.
We threw that into place all by itself, (
and we called il nubbins. Some of it /
was widowed, and some Of it was mice +
nibbled and some of IL was great promise t
and no fulfillment. All cobs and no corn. 7
Nubbins After the good corn had been 4
driven up TO the barn we came around /
with the corn basket, and we picked up 1
these nubbns They were worth saving, /
but not worth much. So all around rs /
there are people who amount to compare 4
lively nothing. They develop into no kind /
ofusefulness They are nibbled on one side
by the world, and nibbled on the other
side by the devil, and widowed all over. /
Great promise and no fulfillment. All cohs +
and no corn. Nubbnsl They are worth
saving | suppose many of them will get 4
to heaven. but they are not worthy to be
mentioned in the same day with those who
went through great tribulation 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 and
lacerated and wrenched and husked and
at last 20 in amid the very best grain Of
the granery-than to be pronounced not
worth husbing at alls Nubbinsg In other
words, want to say to you people who
have distress OF body and distress in bust
ness aud distress of all sorts, the Lord has
NOT anv vr,tfirrp against Won IL i moi de- (