The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-11-29


morning." Light and but for moment"
said the apostle as he clapped his hands,
light, and but for moment The chill
of the frOsts followed by the gladness that
cOmeth in like shock of corn cOmeth i'll
in his season."
Of course the husking time made rough
work with the ear of corn. The husklng
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
pull and there was z, ruthless tearing, and
then a complete swapping off before the corn
was free, and If the husk could have
spoken it would have said, why do you
lacerate me? Why do you wrench me"
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 dlstresses
ing the souls liberation. Every rheumatic
pain is only a plunge of the husking peg.
Every neuralgia twinge 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 h,lsbandman husk Off
the mortality from the immortality. There
ought to be great consolation in this for
Lord is gradually and more mildly taking
all who have chronic ailments, since the
away from you that which hinders your
souls liberation, doing gradually for you
what for many Of us in robust health per-
haps 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 10 suffer that again;
thank God, am so much nearer the hour
of liberation" You will never suffer the
same pain twice You may have u 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
crowbar 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 INSTRUMENTS that Which
some of us will have 10 pay III one payment
when we pay the debt of nature. Thank
God, therefore, We who have chronic dis
orders that Won have so much less suffering
at the last Thank God that You will have
so much less to feel in the way OF pam at
the hands of the heavenly husbandman
when the shock of corn cometh In III his
season..
Perhaps now this may be an answer to
a question which | asked one Sabbath morn
ing, but did not answer: Why is 1T that
so many really good people have SO dread
fully TO suffer? You often find good man
with enough pains and aches and diseases
you would think, TO discipline a whole col
ony., while You will find man who is per
fectly useless going about with easy d.
gestion and steady nerves and shining
health, and his exit from the world is com
paratively painless How do you explain
that? Well l noticed in the husking time
that the huskng-peg was thrust into the
corn and then there must be a stout pull
before the swathing was taken OH the ear
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 it ''nubbins.' Some
of it was widowed, and some of it was
mice nibbled, and some of it was great
promise and no fulGllment All cobs and
no corn Nubbins. After the good corn
had been driven up to the barn we came
around with the corn-baSket and we plched
up these nubbins. They We're worth say
ing, but not worth much. So all around us
there are people who amount to compare
lively nothing. They develop into no
kind of usefulness. They are nibbled on
one side by the world and nibhled on the
other side by the devil, and mildeWed all
over. Great promise and no 1uhllment
All cobs and no corn. Nubbins! They are
worth saving. / suppose many of them VIII
get to heaven, but thaE are not worthy 20
be mentioned in. the same day with tnoSc
who went through great trlbulaton into
the kingdom of our God. Who would not
rather have the pains of this life, the mis-
fortunes of this life--who had not rather
be torn, and wounded, and lacerated, anG
wrenched, and husked, and at last go III
anna IDe very bcSl SlttlA VI thC S!t'h''iS'
than TO be pronounced not worth huskins at
all? Nubbins! In other words, l want to
say to you people who have dlstresS OF
body and distress in business, and distress
of all sorts, the Lord has not any grudge
against you. 1t is not derogatory, it IS
complimentary Whom the Lord loveth
he chasteneth," and it is proof positive
that there is something valuable IN you,
or the Lord would not have husked you.
You remember also, that III the time OF
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the great fireplace in the winter, the IRE
the great fireplace in the winter, the fires
roaring around the glorihed back-loga
on an old fashioned hearth, OF which the
modern stoves and registers are ohiy deSen-
crate descendants. the farmers used to gath
or and spend the evening, and there Would
be much sociality; but it was not anything
like the joy OF husking time, for then All
the farmers came. and they came III ine
yond the meadow, and they came from pc
yond the meadow, and they came from be
yond the brook. and they came from regions
two and three miles around Good spirits
reigned supreme and there were great
handshakings, and there was carnival, ana
there was a recital of the brightest eXpe-
riences in all their lives, and there was q
neighborhood reunion. the memory OF which
makes all the nerves Of my BODY trenoie
with emotion as the strings OF narp When
the fingers of the player nave swept tne
chords The husking time was the time OF
neighborhood reunions. and so heaven VIII
he lust that. There they come up! They
SILENT in the old village churchyaTd. There
they come up! They rcclined amid the
fountains and the sculpture and the par
terres of a city cemetery. There they come
up, They went down when the ship foun-
dered off Cape Hatteras They come up
from all sides from the potter's field and
out of the solid masonry Of Westminster
Abbey. They come up. They come up!
All the hndrances to their better nature
husked off All their spiritual desponden-
cies husked off. "A their hindrances to use
grain, the God-faAioned grain, visible and
conspicuous Some Of them on earth were
such disagreeable Christians You could hard
" stand it in their presence. Now in heay-
en- they are so radiant you hardly know
them. The fact is. all their imperfectons
have been husked off. They did not mean
on earth to be disagreeable. They meant
well enough, but they told you, how SICK
YOU looked, and they told you how Icany
hard things they had heard about you, and
they told you how often they had TO stahd
I'D for you in some battles until you "ished
almost they had been slain III some OF the
battles Good, pious, consecrated Wen,
meaning disagrceables. Now, III heaven az
their otlensiveness has been huSked OH.
Each one is happy as he can be. Everyone
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