Connecticut western news., 1892-12-01
OUR THANKSGIVING.
pR. TAlMAGE DIS COURSES ON THE
 eEA4Ok OF lNGAThERlNG.

SEA3ok OF INGATAERlNG.
 EAs Asthsd of Scripture in Using the Hest .r.ntltar Fs.c to Illustrate the
 kest 1mportant IT ti,s-The Life of the
 Gem an Image of he Life of Man.
 BnooHLYN, Nov. 27.-Rev. Dr. Tal- Anags today chose fer his subject of dis sourss one eminent : suited to the time following the ingasaering of the har- yssts and to the thanksgiving season. The decorations of the Thanksgiving day still remained ol the platform and the galleries, and long rows of yellow and white corn on tna front and back of tho platform were ia accord with the segmon. The text elected was Job V, q "As as hook of corn cometh in in his seaaon."
 This is the time of the year for husk- MS corn. If you have recently been in tho fields of Pennfs lvania or New ter ssy or New York or New England, or in : Any of the country districts, you know that the corn is all Ct. The sharp knife struok through the E alks and left them all along the fields until a man came with bundle of k.raw and twisted few of these wisps of straw into band, and then, gathering up as much of the corn as he could compass with his arms, hs bound 1t with this wisp of straw and then stood it in the field in what is called . shock. There are now at least two bllion bushels of corn either standing { In the shock or having been already husked. The farmers gather one day on one farm, and then another day on another farm, and they put on their rough husking apron, and they take the husking peg, which is a piece of iron with . lesthern loop fastened to the hand, and with it unAheath the corn from the husk and toss 1t into the golden heap. Then the wagons come along and 'take it to the corncrib.
 SCRIPTURE STORIES ABOUT CORN.
 About corn as an important cereal ol corn Nas . metaphor the Bible is con atantly speaking. You know about the people in famine coming to buy corn of JosDph, and the foxes on fire running into the Standing corn, and about the Sxsn treading out the corn, and about ths seven thin ears of corn that in pha- roah's dream devoured the seven good ears, and the "parched corn" handed to beautiful Ruth by the harvesters of Bethlehem, and Abigail's i've measures of "parched corn" with which she hoped to appease tho enemies of her drunken husband, and David's description of the valleys "covered over with corn" and ''ths handful of corn in the earth, and s.ths full corn in the ear," and Christ's Sabbath morning walk through corn Aelds, and the disciples '.plucking ears of corn," and 80 am not surprised to ind corn husking time referred to in my taxt "As shock of corn cometh in in his season."
 How wildly to all those of us who wore born in the country comes the re- msmbrance of husking time! We wait a for 1t as for . gala day of the year. It was called 8 frolic. The trees having for the most part shed their foliage, the farmers waded through the fallen leaves and came through the keen morning air to the gleeful company. The frosts which had silvered everything during the night began to melt off the top of tho corn shocks. While the farmers wers waiting for others they stood blowing their breath through their fin gers or thrashing their arlns around their body to keep up warmth of circu- lation. Roaring mirth greeted the late farmer as he crawled over the fence. Joke and repartee and rustic salutation abounded. All ready nowl
 The men take hold of ths shock of corn and hurl 1t prostrate, while the moles and mice which have secreted themselves there for warInth attempt escape. The withe of straw is unwound from the corn shock, and the stalks heavy with the wealth of grain are rolled into two bundles, between which the husker sdts down. The husking Deg is thrust In iuntQ 1t strikes the corn, and then the fingers rip of the sheathing of the ear, and there is crack as the root of the corn is snapped of from the husk, and the grain disimprisoned is hurled up into the sunlight.
 The air is so tonic, the work is so very exhilarating, the company Is so blithe that some laugh, and some shout, and some sing, and some banter, and some tease . neighbor for romantic ride along the edge of the woods in an even tide in carriage that holds but two, and some prophecy as to the number of bushels to the field, and others go into competition as to which shall rifle the most corn shocks before sundown After awhile the dinner horn sounds from the farmhouse, and the table is surrounded by group of jolly and hungry men.
 From all the pantrfes, and the cellars, end the perches of fowl on the place the richest dainties come, and there is car .nivA and neighborhood reunion, and a scene which fills our memory part with smiles, but more with teals, as we re- member that the farm belongs now to other owners, and other hands gather in the field, and many of those who min gled in that merry husking scene have themselves been reaped "like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season."
 THEY HAD OUR KIND OF CORN.
 There is difference of opinion as to whether the orientals knew anything about tho corn as 1t stands in our fields; but recent discoveries have found out that tho Hebrew knew all about Indian maize, for there have been grains of corn picked up out of ancient crypts and ex. lhumed from hiding places where they were put down many centuries ago, and they have been planted in our time and have come up just such Indian maize as ,ws raise in New York and Ohio. So ,am right when say that my text may ,rsfsr to shock of corn just as you and I bound 1t; just as you and threw it itust as you and husked 1t. There may come some practical and useful and comforting lessons to all our souls while vs think of coming in at last like 8 shock of corn cometh in in his season."
 It is high time that the King of Terrori wers thrown out of the Christian vooab-