Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-07-01

TILE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S Sun
DAY SERMON.

cG'fs. he etU MT srer 3e NtTdshlng 4.
Isaiah xviii. q. -.
Their" are thsJt ki-4da u -eef nention@d-
Itch" "-r ala and corn. OF the last We
Ill EIt@. Bat ii may te well 10 state that
III" tteh"1 an the curnuin were small seeds
Ike the carrawav or the chicspea. when
thre" grains or ners- were 70 he th-a-hed
they were thrown on the fraT auf II, WORK
men would come e~e""! t.tn -taT ar r.i or
HAL and l-T' go until the -eea would lie
s"Pa,a'+st, tut when the corn was t. te
| 'afa-het that wa thrown IN the floor. ana
N" nen would f4stca horses or~xen toa
car with iron tented xh.cl=. r = cart
wonii be i-awn AROUND the thrashIu- floor,
AMI - III" WORK would he pi4-hcd.
laf"rent kinds Of thrash,nc FIR iif> r7s'
pT1:ucts. Tn. ftehra are nct finished
wita 2 thrasnlng instrument n%eit(l"r i i Fart
Nt@Hi turned a~'ou'IuFon the c1imuiin hut the
it@h"s are ieater out with q stat and the
"afamin with a rod. Bread corn X bruised
te"auF" be- Viii not eyer he thrashiny it
The great thought that the text presres
nfcn our souls l. that W" all otn-cuch soma
kini of trrashiuk process. The fact that YOU
max =" dcvnting VOW Ef- 10 honorable and
h"bl" purposes will NJ; WIN you any. escape.
Niih"rI"' The Christian emancipat0r. vas
- All aav dcrisiEciy ~e4lleti -Dr. C~antweu."
lh0flae BsitintDn Nacauiay. the advocate Of
M thtt was good long l"forr he became the
most conspicuous historian Of his day. was
cafi atnr"d iii one IF the quarterly rnviews
~ "Bahbletoncuo Manaulav." Norman
hrl"@i. the great friend ~ the Scotch poor.
" l'ttnstriotislN nali-nci in all quarters.
ait"oich on the day when he was carried out
I" 't~ horlal a worl man stood and looked at
~" iIheral Procession and said. eff he had
"on" nothing Tor ANYBODY more than he has
'"r' Tor M. he should shine as the stars for
$50 1ni ever. All IN" small wits of Lon
49, mad their ningat John Wesley. the father
.! tlrttciism.
-lch men coutd not escape the maIiCn-
n ~ the world. neither can Won expect 70
~ ri Of the SHARP. keen stroke If the tril-
y : p. All who will live godlv in Christ Jesus
~ t-i suffer prosecutions. Resides that there
~ II" sichnrsses, and the Bankruptcies. and
- irFltations, and the tiisappointments
" '"'l ar" ever putting a cup of aloas to your
III. Thos" wrinkles on your fare are hero
rl}fhics which. II deriphered. would make
'Hi a thrilling story Of trouble. The footstep
q tine rabbit Is seen the next morning on the
ti'o. and on the white hairs Of the aged are
footprints showing where swift trouble alight-
tven amid the joys and hilarities of life
trouble will sometimes break in. As when
the people were assembled in the Charles
town thcatre during tho evolutionary war
AMI while they were witnessing a farce and
-" audience was in great graduation the
guns OF an advancing army were heard and
tfe audience broke up in wild panic and ran
Tor their lives, SO ofttimes- while you are
seated amid the Joys and festivities of this
W3Ttd You hear the c~annonade of some great
disaster. All the iitches. and the cummin.
AMI the corn must come down on the thrash
IN floor and be pounded.
~ subject, al the first place. teaches us
that II IL no compliment to us II We escape
great trial. The iitches and the cummin on
the tnrashing floor might look over to the
corn oa another thrashing floor and say
look n that poor, miserable, bruised corn.
"" haVe onlyzheen a little pounded, but that
ha~ ! ,en almost destroyed" Well, the corn.
If I Had lips. would answer and say ''Do
you know the reason you have not been as
nuth pounded as | have? 1t is because you
arr H't 80 much worth as l am. Ifyou were,
you W'ilit be as severely run over
Yet here men who suppose they are the
I"r' > 'avorites simply because their barns
are tutt. and their bank account is flush, and
tiat ire no funerals in the house. 1t NAV be
l".ati-e they are fitches and cummin, while
dow ~ the end of the lane the poor widow
mAv T." the Lords corn. You are but little
r. lnli~l because you are but little worth,
Hi, 81" bruised and ground because she is
IL" est part of the harvest.
I. icft of the thrashlng machine is ac-
Co.'S n, 70 the value Of the grain. If you
h, act been much thrashed in life, perhaps
II : not much, to thrash. II you have
~ ~ much shaken Of trouble. perhaps
th' -,ping to be a very small yield. When
t ~ NJ " iiu' is lIe khLIltItIS
6" ST. With large baskets. but when the
ar has almost consumed the fruit then
a measure will do as well. 1t took the
~ us snake on Paurs hand and the
r. II. Of him with stones until be was
fAN,8 49, for dead. ana the janming against
IN pfison gates. and the Ephesian vocif-
err r. and the skinned ankles OF the pain
FL -. and tn. foundering of the Alex
n. - corn ship. and the heheading stroke
81 Homan sheriff 10 bring Pau to his
lr development.
"ts not because Robert Mofrat and Lady
T. Russell and Frederick Oberlin were
" nan other people that they had to
SC Was because they were better and
O. tnted to make them best. BY the
ca - OF the thrashing You may al
v . arlude the value If the grain.
i. Ei tus text teaches u. that God propo--
tn. ~ trials TO what we can bear. the
s. "rtne nrrnes. tina roo Tor the cummln,
[ i wheel Tor the corn. Sometimes
y III great trouble say. "Oh, | can't
L. T. But you did bear it. God would
n, ave sent 1t upon YOU if He did not know
tfat YOU could Lear it,. You tremhled. and
yN4 ~woonei, hut Won got through. God
VIII not TAXI from your eyes one tear too
many, nor from your lungs one Sigh too
deep. nor from Your temples one throh too
sharp. The ptrplexfies of YOUR earthly
BUSINESS have not IN them one iangle too in
trictlte.
Aeu sometimes feel as If our world were
full II hiutceons flying haphazard. Oh. no
TN are thrashlne Instruments that Goi Just
81 i~; ' teur case. There i not a dollar OF
bal Its on Your ledger. or a disappolnt-
nss p tt@'ut goods that You expected to 20
u IT that hAvr Gone down. or IA .winile
O. tr business partner. or u trick on the
par ,t those who are in the same kind o.
las that Won are. tut God intended to
OK t' fer your lmnIoTss, help. -0h :
70 -.y- there j. 10 n~ei taking tina; way
E. ns- / don't like - ~ chaa.At AMI out
n. Neither DOES the rora like the c0rn
thr .~.rr. hut after II has t+~Sa thra7llevi and
y NJ il has a great deal better ~ofinior
o. yang mills an corn th-A>her~
vsu say, IL i could choose nv
tr would b" wiling ~ he troubled. :
4 -fher. then II wnul, not ta trouhle.
! " ~ chou>" something that would uo'
h. unless II hurts II ,tces not ~ ~4aa.
a. 1our trial p"1iaIS NAY he rh4Isitess
nt~~ lau are foni - children Nvu lay
iva as, tioi send e~ai!iraa Il thai oshei
kou~rGaai. gaerc the, AZ Unwelee.nar and
xro beaten and banged about. VIXEN / woGlc
have taken them in the arms ~ nv ss.~>-
uonsf You say. Any osher trial III. thu e
Your trial perhaps nay IL a dist.