The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-06-22
DEATH Is A SUNRISE.
DR.. TALMAGE PICTURES THE FEuCI,
TIES OF FUTURE LIFE.

How NJ en- Go Through Gods Chrashin,
Machine-The Fruits of Trial snd Tribu
lations Are Eternal JOY and Peace 1,
tho BlissfuI Hereafter.
BROOKLYN, June II. 49, Rev DIR Tai
mage chose as the subject for his ser
mon today 1.-The Thrashing Machine ,
the text being from Isaiah xviii, 81, 2S
For the iitChcs are not thrashed Will
thrashng instrument, neither is cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin
but the fltches arc beaten out with q
staff and the cummi1 with rod. Brcat
corn is bruised because he will not eve
be thrashing it,"
There are three kinds of seed men
toned-fitches, Cummin and corn. O
the last we all know. But it NAV b,
we'll to state that the litches and In.
cummin' were small seeds, like the car
raway or the chickpea. When thes,
grains or herbs were to be thrashcd
they were thrown on the door, and the
workmen would come around with stat
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 men would iastcn
horses or oxen to cart with iron dent
ell wheels. That cart would be drawn
around the thrashing Aoor, aud so the
work would be accomplished. different
kinds of thrashing for different products.
1.-THE titches arc not thrashcd with a
thrashing instrument, neither is cart
wheel turned about upon the Cummin,
but the litchcs arc beaten out with q
staff and the Cummm with rod. Bread
corn is bruised because he will not ever
be thrashing it,"
The great thought that the text press
es upon our souls is that we all go
through some kind of thrashlny process.
The fact that You may be dcvotiny your
lite to honorable and noble purposes will
not win you any escape. Wilberiorcc,
The Christian cmancipatOr, was IN his
day derlsively called "Dr. Cantwcll."
Thomas BabingtOn Macaulay, the adj
VOcate OF all that was good long before
he became the most conspicuous histO.
ran OF his day, was carlCaturcd in one
Oh the quarterly reviews as "BabblC-
tongue MaCaulay." Norman Mcleod
the great friend of the Scotch Door, was
lndustriOuslY maligncd in all quarters,
although on the day whc1 he was car
rled out to his burial a workman stood
and loOksd ut the funeral procession and
said, "li he had done nothing for any
body more than he has done for me, he
should shine rs the stars forever and cv-
er." All the small wits OF London had
their fling at John Wesley, the father OF
Methodism.
III such men could not escape the ma
ligninG OF the world neither can you cy-
pect to get rid of the sharp, keen stroke
OF the trlbulllm. All who will live god
lY III Christ Jesus must suffer pcrsecu.
uon. BESIDES that there are the sick.
nesses, and the bankruptcies, and the |
irritatlons, and the dlsappolntmcnts
which are over putting cup of alocs to
your lip. Those wrinkles on your face |
are hieroglYphics which, if dcclphcrcd,
would make out II thrilling story of |
trouble. The iootstcp OF the rabbit is
seen The next morning on the snow, and |
Oh the white hairs OF the AGED are ihc
footprints showing where swift trouble |
alighted. =:
Even amid the Joys and hilariucs of |
ille trouble VIII sometimes break in. As |
"nen the people were assembled in the |
ChRflcstown thcater during the Rcvo-
lutlonary war and while thew were wit
Messing farce and the audience was IN |
great graduation the guns Of an advanc-
ing army were heard aud the audience |
brokc up IN wild panic and ran for their
lives, 80 ofttimcs while YOU are seated
amid the Joys and tcItlvi,ies CT this
world you hear the CannOnade of some
great disaster. Al! The litChcs and the
cummln, and the corn lGust come down
on the thrashlng floor and be founded.
MY subject, in the first place, teaches
us that 1t is no compliment to us if we
escape great hal. The Gtchcs and the
Cummin on the thrashing floor might
!ook over 10 The corn on another thrash
ing moor and say: "Iook at that poor.
miserable, bruised corn! We have on.
~ Deen little pounded, but that has
peeh almost destroyed" Well the corn
II II had lips, would answer and saw.
10 you know the reason You have not
been as much pounded as | have? Ills
oecauSe you are not OF 80 much worth
as am. ltyou were you would be so.
Vetely run over"
ct there are men who suppOso thcy
ate lne Loid's iavorltes simply because
their barns are full, and their bank ac.
Gouht IS iush, and there are no funerals
III lhe house. 1t may be because thew
are are lltches and cummin, while down at
tns nn END o. the lane the poor widow NAV
De the LORDS corn. You are but litilc
pounded because you are but iit,io iit,
worth, and she b.used and ground hn.
cause she is the best part of the Larvcsi
Inc heit of the thrashlng mach;n" T, 10
according to the value of the grain 10 10
You have no. been much thrashed IN nfa
perhaps there is not much to thrash, m Tf
you have not been much shaken of trorb.
le, perhaps It ls because there ia ooino
to be very small yield. When there
are plenty of blackberres, the gatherers
go out with large baskets, but when thc
drought has almost consumed the Cruit
then quart measure will do as well. II
took the venOmous snake on Paul's hand
and the pounding of HIM with stones I'M.
Al he was taken up for dead, and the
amming against him of prison gates.
nd the Ephesien vociferatlon, and the
kinned ankles Of the painful stocks, The
of the Alexandsian corn shin
nd the beheading stroke of the lsoman