The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-11-30

they are not worthy to be mentioned n
tho same day with those who went
through great tribulation into tho
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 60 in amid the very
best grain Of the granary, than to be
pronounced not worth husking at oil!
Nubbinsl In other words, l want to
say to you people who have distress OF
body, and distress in business, and dis
tress Of all sorts, the Lord has not any
grudge against you. 1t is not deroga'
tory, 1t is complimentary. Whom the
Lord loveth he chastencth," and it is
proof positive that there is something
valuable in you, or the Lord would not
have husked you.
You remember also, that In the time
Of husking it was Il neighborhood re-
union. By the great fireplace in the
winter, the fires roaring around the
glori1ed back logs on an old-fashioned
hearth, of which the modern stoves and
registers are only the degenerate de-
scendants, the farmers used to gather
and spend the evening, and there would
be much sociality; but 1t was not any
thing 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, and they
came from beyond the brook, and they
came from regions two and three miles
around. Good spirits reigned supreme,
and there were great handshalkings,
and there was carnival, and there was
the recital of the brightest expert
ences in all their lives, and there was a
neighborhood reunion the memory OF
which makes all 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 re-
union, and so Heaven will be just that.
There they comel They slept in the old
village churchyard. There they come
up! They reclined amid the fountains
and the sculpture and the parterres OF
cit cemetery. There they come upl
They went down when the ship foun-
dered off Cape Hatteras. They come up
from all sides-from Potter's field and
out of the solid masonry Of Westminster
abbey. They come up! They come upl AL
the hindrances TO their better nature
husked off. All their spiritual despond
encies husked off. All their hindrances
to usefulness huslSed off. The grain
the golden, the God-fashioned grain
visible and conspicuous. Some Of them
on earth were such disagreeable Chris
tians you could hardly stand in theil
presence. Now in Heaven they are Sc
radiant you hardly know them. The
fact is, all their imperfections have beer
husked off. They did not mean OF
earth to be disagreeable. They mean
we'll enough, but they told you how sicl
you looked, and they told you how
many hard things they had heard abou
you, and they told you how often the,
had TO stand up for you In SOM
battles until you wished almost tina
they had been slain in some o
the battles Good, pious, consecrated
well.meaning disagreeables Now, Il
Heaven, all their offebsivencss has been
huslSed off Each one Is as happy as h
can be. Everyone he meets rs happy a
he can be. Heaven one great neighbor
hood reunion. All kings and queens
all songsters, all millionaires, all ban
queters. God, the Father, with Hi
children all around Him. No good
bye" in all the air. No grave cut in al
the hills. Rivers Of crystal rolling owe
bed Of pearl, under arch of chrysoprase
into seas of glass mingled with fire
Stand at the gate of the granary an
see the grain come in; out Of the frost
into the sunshine, out OF the darkness
into the light, out Of the tearing an
the ripping and the twisting and tn
wrenching and lacerating and the husl
ing time Of earth into the wide-ope
door OF the Kings granary, like as
, shock OF corn cometh in in his season.
Yes Heaven Is great sociable, wit
Joy like the Joy of the husking tint
No one there feeling so big he decline
J to speak TO some one that is not S
; large. Archangel willing TO listen I
) smallest cherub. No boiling Of til
door Of caste at one heavenly mansio
TO keep out the children of smalle
: mansion. No clique in one corner viii
: pering about clique in another corne
) David taking none of the airs Of
. piantkiller. Joshua making no on
, halt until he passes, because he mad
: the sun and moon halt Paul maxim
: no assumption over the most ord
l nary preacher OF righteouness- Mai
3 man, captain Of the Syrian host, 4
: more honored than the captive mai
who told him where he could get goo
doctor. o, my soul, what countr.
r The humblest man king. The poo
: est woman queen. The meane
+: house palace. The shortest lifetiu
: eternity And what is more stranf
4 about Il all is, we may all get ther
b ',Not l." says some one standing bac
! under the galleries. Yes, you; mot 1
: says some one who has not been
S church In fifteen years before Ye
' YOU. "Not l." says some one WI
Z hes been for fifty years fllir
s up his life with all kinds
a wickedness. Yes, you. There are m
0 nopolies on earth, monopolistic raj
5 roads, and monopolistic telegraph con
Q panies, and monopolistic grain dealer
: Init no mouopolies In religion. All wi