The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-01-21

INTO the klnRuOm 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
and husked, and at last go
in amid the very best grain of the gran
airy, than to be pronounced not worth
husl1ing at all? Nubbins! In other
words, want to say toyou people who
have distress of body, and distress in
and distress of all sorts, the
Lord has not any grudge against you.
1t is not derogatory. it is compliment
airy. Whom the Lord loveth He chast-
eneth," and it is proof positive that
there is something valuable in you, or
the Lord would not have husked you.
"But" says someone, "do you really
think would be at home in that su-
pernal society if should reach it?" l
think you would. know You would.
/ remember that in the huslxing time
there was great equality of feeling
among the neighbors. There at one
corn-shock a farmer would be at work
who owned two hundred acres OF
ground. The man who he was talking
to at the next corn-shock owned but
thirty acres of ground, and perhaps all
that covered by a mortgage. That
evening, at the close of the huslking
day, one man drove home roam span
so frislsy, SO full of life, they got
their feet over the traces. The other
man walked home. Great difference in
great difference in worldly
means; but l noticed at the husking
time they all seemed to enjoy each
others society. They did not ask any
man how much property he owned or
what his education had been. They AL
seemed to be happy together in those
good times. And SO it will be in
Heaven. Our Father will gather
His children around Him, and the
neighbors will come in, and the
past will be rehearsed And some one
will tell of victory, and we will all cele-
brate it. And some one will tell o1
great struggle. and we will all praise
the grace that fetched him out of it.
And some one will say: ''Here is my
old father that put away with heart
break; just look at him, he is Is young
as any of usr' And some one will say
Here is my darling child that buried
in Greenwood, and all the after years
of my life were Swallowed with desola.
tion-just look at her. She doesn't seem
as If she had been sick a minute
Great sociality. Great neighborhood
kindness. Go in and dine. What though
John Milton sit down on one side and
John Howard sit down on the
other side? No embarrassment. What
though Charlotte Elizabeth sit dowr
on one side and Hannah More si1
down on the other side? No embar
rassment. A monarch yourself, why
be embarrassed among monarchs? A
songster yourself, why be embar
raised among glorified songsters? Gt
in and dine.
You remember also, that in the tim,
of husling it was a neighborhood re
union. BY the great fireplace in thu
winter, the fires roaring around thu
glorious bacls-logs on an old-fashionet
hearth, of which the modern stoves ant
registers are only the degenerate de
scendants, the farmers used to gathel
and spend the evening, and Their
would be much sociality; but it wa
not anything like the joy of the husk
ing time, for then the farmers came
and they came in the very best humor
and they came from beyound the mead
ow, and they came from beyond tn,
brook, and they came from regions TIVE
and three miles around. Good spirit
reigned supreme, and there were grea
handshakings, and there was carnival
and there was the recital of tn
brightest experiences in all their lives
and there was neighborhood reunion
the memory of which makes all tn
nerves of my body trembls with emo
ton as the strings of q harp when tn
fingers of the playe- have swept tn
chords. The husking time was tn
time of the neighborhood reunion. AM
so Heaven will be just that Their
they could come up! They slept in tn
old village churchyard. There the
come up! They reclined amid tn
fountains and the sculpture and tn
parterres of a city cemetery. Their
they come up! They went down whel
the ship foundered off Cape Hatteras
They come up from all sides-fror
Potter's field and out of the solid ma
sonry of Westminster abbey. The
come up! They come up! Al
the hindrances to their bel
ter nature husked of. Al
their spiritual dependencies huske
off. All their hinderances to useful
ness husked off. The grain, the golde
grain, the God-fashioned grain, visibl
and conspicuous Some of them o
earth were such disagrecable Christian
you could hardly stand it in their pres
ence. Now in Heaven they are SO n
diant you hardly know them. The fac
is all their imperfections have bee
husked off. They did not mean o
earth to be disagreeable. They mean
we'll enough, but they told you no,
sick you looked; and they told you no,
many hard things they heard abou
you; and they told you how often the
had to stand up for you in sumo battle
until you wished almost that they ha
been slain in some of the battle
Good, pious, consecrated, well-meal
ing disagreeables Now, in Heave
all their offensiveness has been huske
of. Each one is as happy as he ca
be. Everyone she meets as happy
| he can be. Heaven one great neigl
borhood reunion. All kings and queen
all songsters, all millionaires, all bal
queters. God, the Father, with d