Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
THE THRESHING MACHINE.
EVERY MORTAL MUST ENDURE THE
THRESHiNG PROCESS.
Great Trials . SiEn OF q Sour.s Great
Sainc-Chrtstian Sorrow Has a
. Sure Terminus -lroabies Never
Made Too Heavy.

"a AlAAAAI-G
chose as the subject for his sermon to-
day: The Threshing Machine TIE
text being from Lsa. 2s.a7, Is sFor
the ftches are MOI threShed with \
threshing instrument, neither is a art
wheel turned about upon the cummin,
but the fiches are beaten out with
a staff and the cummin with a nod.
Bread corn is bruised. because he win
not eve be threshing IT,"
There are three kinds Of seed men
toned: Fitches, cummin and corn. OF
the last we all know. But it may be
we'll TO state that the itches and the
cummin were small seeds, like the
carraway or the thich-pea. When
these grains or herbs were to be
thceshed they were thrown on the
floor and the workmen come around
with staff, or rod, or fail. and beat
them until the seed would be separ-
ated: but when the corn was TO be
threshed that was thrown on the floor,
and the men would fasten horses or
oxen 10 a cart with iron-dented wheels;
that cart would be drawn around the
threshing floor, and so the work would
be accomplished. Different kinds of
tire shing for different products. The
itches are not threshed with a thresh-
ing instrument, neither Is a cart-wheel
turned about upon the cummin; but
the fitches are beaten out with a staff
and the cummin with a rod. Bread
corn is bruised, because it will not
ever be threshing it,"
The great thought that the text
presses upon our souls is that we all
go through some kind of ~threshing
process. The fact that you may be de-
voting your life TO honorable and no
escape. Wilberforce, the Christian
emancipation, was in his day d~erisiyely
called 'Dr. Cantwell." Thomas Bah
ington M~acauley, the advocate of all
that was good before ne became the
most conspicuous historian of his day,
was ~caricatured in one of the quarter
ly reviews as "Babbletongue Macau-
ley" Norman McLeo, the great friend
Of the Scotch poor, was industriously
maligned in all quarters, although on
the day when he was carried out TO
his burial a workman stood and looked
at the funeral procession and said:
IF he had done nothing for anybody
more than he has done for me, he
should shine as the stars for ever and
ever" All the small wits of London
had their fling at John Wesley, the
father of Methodism.
If such men could not escape the
m~aligning of the world, neither can
you expect to get rid of the sharp,
| keen stroke of the tribulum? All who
will live cody in Christ Jesus must
| suffer persecution. Besides that, there
are the sicknesses. and the bankrupt
| cies. and the irritations. and h dis
appointments which are ever putting
a cup Of aloes to your lip Those
wrinkles on your face are hieroglyph-
les, which. IL deciphered, would make
out q thrilling story Of rouble. lhe
! footstep of the rabbit is seen the next
Morning on the snow, aud on the white
hairs of the aged are the footprints
! showing where swift trouble alighted.
Even amid the joys and hilarities OF
life, trouble will sometimes break IN.
AS when the people were assembled
in the Charleston theater, during the
| Revolutionary war. and While they
| were witnessing a farce, and n audi
ence was in great graduation, the guns
of an advancing enemy were heard,
and the audience broke up in wild
| manic and ran for their nyes, so
| oftimes while you are seated AMID
! the lows and festivities of this world
| you hear the cannonade of some great
| disaster. All the ftches and the cum
min and the corn must come on the
| threshing floor and be pounded.
Nv subject, in the first place, teaches
as that it is no compliment TO US IL we
! escape great trial. The fitchfs and the
! ,ummin on the threshing floor might
| look over 10 the corn on another Moor
| md say: Look at that poor, miseras
| ,le. bruised. corn. We have only been
, little pounded. but that has been al
most destroyed" Well. the corn. If II
| ,ad lips. would answer and say: DO
| gou know the reason you have not been
IS much pounded as I have! 1t Is be-
! cause you are not Of so much worth as
/ am: if you were 0 would be as
,ayereIy run over" Yet there are men
who suppose they are the Lords IA
| yorites simply because their barns are
| full. and their bank account is flush,
! and there are no funerals in the house.
It may be because they are fitches and
| cummin; while down at the end or
| the lane the poor widow may be the
lords corn. You are but little pound
| ed because you are but little worth,
and she bruised and pounded because
she is the best part of the harvest.
The hefr Of the threshing machine
& according TO the value Of the grain.
Ii YOU have lot been much threshed
In life. perhaps there is not much To
| thresh. Ii you have not been much
| shaken of trouble. perhaps IL is because
| there is going TO be a very small yield.
| When there are plenty Of blackberries
the gatherers GO out with large bas-
kets: but when the drought has almost
consumed the fruit, then a quart meas
ure viii do as we'll. 1t took the ven-
| omous snake on Pauls hand and the
| pounding Of him with stones until he
| was taken up for dead, and the jam
| ming against him of prison gates, and
The Ephesian vociferation. and the
skinned ankles of the painful stocks.
| and the laundering OF the A~lexandrian
| corn-ship, and the b~eheading stroke of
the Roman Sheriff to bring Paul to his
proper development.
Ii was not because Robert Moffat
| and Lady Rachel Russell, and Freder-
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