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DEATH rs A SUNRISE.
DR.. TALMAGE PICTURES THE FELlC-
tiles OF FUTURE LIFE.


lntion Are Eternal JOY and Peace In the
l1lissfuI Hereafter
BRooKLYN, June 11.--Rev. DR.. Talmage
,hose as the subject for his sermon today
"The Thrashing Machine" the text being
rom Isaiah xviii, 81, IS, For the ftches are
not thrashed with a thrashing instrument,
neither is a cart wheel turned about upon
lhc cummin. but the ftches are beaten out
with II staff and the cummin with rod.
Bread corn is bruised because he will not
ever be thrashing it."
There are three kinds of seed mentioned
-fitches, cummin and corn. OF the last
We all know. But it may be well to state
hat the fitches and the cummin were small
seeds, like the carraway or the chckpea
When these grains or herbs were to be
thrashed, they were thrown on the floor,
and the workmcn would come around with
staff or rod or fail and beat them until the
seed would be separated, but when the corn
was to be thrashed that was thrown on the
floor, and the mrn would fasten horses or
oxen to a cart with iron dentcd wheels.
That cart would be drawn around the
ihrashing floor, and so the work would be
accomplished. Different kinds of thrashing
for different products. 1.-The ftches are
not thrashed with a thrashng instrument,
neither is q cart wheel turned about upon
the cummin, but the titches are beaten out
with staff and the cummin with II rod.
Bread corn is bruised because he will not
ever be thrashing it,"
The great thought that the text presses
upon our souls is that we all go through
some kind of thrashing process. The fact
that you may be devoting your life to hon
orablc and noble purposes will not win you
any escape Wherefore, the Christian
emancipator, was in his day derisively
called DIR. Cautwell." Thomas Babing-
ton Macaulay, the advocate of all that was
good long before he became the most CON
spicuous historian of his day, was carica-
tured in one of the quarterly reviews as
"Babblstongue Macaulay" Norman Nc
Leod, the great friend of the Scotch poor,
was industrously maligned in all quar-
ters although on the day when he was car
red out to his burial Il workman stood and
looked at the funeral procession and said
"lf he had done nothing for anybody more
than he has done for me, he should shine
as the stars forever and ever" All the
small wits of London had their fling at
John Wesley, the father of Methodism.
II such men could not escape the malign-
ing of the world, neither can you expect to
get rid Of the sharp, keen stroke of the trib-
ulum. All who will live godly in Christ
Jesus must suffer persecution. Besides
that there are the sicknesses, and the bank
ruptcies, and the irritations, and the disap-
pointments which are ever putting cup Of
aloes to your lip. Those wrinkles on your
face are hieroglyphics which, if deciphered,
would make out thrilling story of trou-
BILE. The fcOtstcp of the rabbit is seen the
next morning on the snow, and on the
| white hairs of the aged are the footprints
| showing where swift trouble alighted.
CLOUDS WITH SUNSHINE.
Even amid the joys and hilarities of life
| trouble will sometimes break in. AS when
| the people were assembled in the Charles
| town theater during the Revolutionary
war and while they were witnessing a
farce and the audience was in great gratl-
| laton the guns of an advancing army were
| heard and the audience broke up in wild
| panic and ran for their lives, so ofttimes
while you are seated amid the joys and fes-
Invites of this world you hear the cannon
ade of some great disaster. All the fitches,
and the cummin, and the corn must come
My subject, in the first place, teaches us
that it is no compliment to us if we escape
| great trial The fitches and the cummin on
| the thrashing floor might look over o the
corn on another thrashing floor and say;
Look at that poor, miserable, bruised
| cornl We have only been little pounded
but that has been almost destroyed" Well
the corn, if it had lips, would answer and
say: do you know the reason you have
not been as much pounded as l have? Iii,
| because you are not of so much worth as
am. If you Were you would be as severely
| run over"
Yet there are men who suppose they are
the Lords favorites simply because theil
barns are full, and their bank account i,
flush, and there are no funerals in the
house. 1t may be because they are fitche.
and cummin, while down at the end of the
lane the poor widow may be the Lord ;.
corn. You are but little pounded becaus,
you are but little worth, and she bruised
| and ground because she is the best part O.
the harvest.
The heft of the thrashing machine is &C
cording to the value Of the grain. If yor
have not been much thrashed in life, per
haps there is not much to thrash! If yol
have not been much shaken of trouble per
haps 1t Is because there Is going to be a Verl
small yield. When there are plenty o
black berries the gatherers 90 out will
large baskets but when the drought ha
almost consumed the fruit. then quar-
measure will do as well. 1t took the ven
omous snake on Paul's hand, and the pound
ing Of him with stones until he was takel
up for dead, and the jamming against hin
of prison gates, and the Ephesian vocifcr
alton, and the skinned ankles of the pain
full stocks, and the laundering of the lex
andrian corn ship, and the beheading strok
of the Roman sheriff to bring Paul to Iii
proper d. lopment.
1t was not because Robert MofTat an,
Lady Rachel Russell and Frederick Obel
lin were worse than other people that the
had to suffer. 1t was because they wer
better, and God wanted to make them best
BY the carefulness of the thrashing yo
may always conclude the value of tn
grain,
GOD TEMPEEs OUR TRIALS.
Next my text teaches us that God pre-
portions our trials to what we can beai
The staff for the ftchcs. The rod for tn
cummin. The iron wheel for the corr