The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-06-16
WORLDLY TRIALS.
Dr.. Talmage Discourses on the
Threshing Process.
Great Trials of Value to the Soul-God
Never Makes Troubles Too Heavy
to Be BOrne-Christian Scr.
rows Happy Ending.

''The Threshing Machine" was the
subject chosen by Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage for a late sermon at Brooklyn,
the text being Isaiah 1927, 2S: For
the fitches are not threshed with
threshing instrument, neither is cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin.
but the fitches are beaten out with
staff and the cummin with rod: Bread
corn is bruised, because he will not
ever be threshing it." DIR. Talmage
said:
There are three kinds of seed men
tioned-ftcheS, cummin and corn. Of
the last we all know. But it may be
well to state that the fitches and cum
min were small seeds. like the CARA
way or thick-pea- When these grains
or herbs were to be threshed they were
thrown on the floor and the work
men come around with staff. or
rod, or fail. and beat them until
the seed would be separated: but when
the corn was to be threshed that was
thrown on the floor. and the men would
fasten horses or oxen to a cart with
drawn around the threshing floor, and
so the work would be accomplished.
Different kinds of threshing for differ
ent products THE ftches are not
threshed with a threshing instrument.
neither is a cart-wheel turned about
upon the cummin: but the fitches are
beaten out with staff and the cummln
with rod. Bread corn is bruised, be-
cause he will not ever be threshing it.
The great thought that the text
presses upon our souls is that we all 60
through some kind of threshing pro-
cess. The fact that yOn may be devot-
ing your life to honorable and noble
purposes will not win You any. escape.
Wilberforce, the Christian emancipation.
was in his day derisively called DIR.
Cantwell." Thomas Ba abingdon Macau-
Law, the advocate of all that was good
before he became the most conspicuous
historian of his day, was caricatured in
one of the quarterly reviews as Bah
bletongue Macaulay." Norman Nc
Leod, 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 2 work
man stood and looked at the funeral
procession and said: If he has 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-
If such men could not escape the ma
ligning of the world. neither car 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 sicl1nesses, and the bankruptcies.
and the irritations. and the disappoin-
ments 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 trouble. Tie foCtstep OF the
rabbit is seen the next morning on
the snow, and on the white hairs OF the
aged are seen the footprints showing
where swift trouble alighted.
Even amid the joys and hilarities o.
life. trouble will sometimes break in
As when the people were assembled il
the Charlestown theater. during tn;
revolutionary war. and while they wer,
witnessing a farce, and the audienc;
was in great graduation. the guns o
an advancing enemy Were heard. ant
the audience broke up in a wild pani'
and ran for their lives so oftimeS while
YOU are seated amid the joys and fes
tivities of this world you hear the can
nonade of some great disaster All thu
fitches and cummin and the corn mus
come down on the threShing floor ant
be pounded.
Ny subject, in the first place. teaches
us that it is no compliment to us if We
escape great trial. The fitches and tn
cummin on the threshing floor nigh
look over to the corn on another foo
and saw: Look at that poor. mlser
able. bruised corn. We have only beel
little pounded. but that has been al
most destroyed" Well. the corn, IL
had lips. would answer and say: De
YOU know the reason You have not beel
as much pounded as l have? 1t Is be
cause YOU are not of so much worth a
am: If You were you would be as sc
VerelN run over. leu dtC ihSI
who suppose they are the Lords favor
ties simply because their barns are full
and their bank account is flush, an
there are no funerals in the house.
may be because they are fitches an
cummin: while down at the end of tn
lane the poor widow may be the Lord
corn. You are but little pounded bs
cause you are but little worth, and sh
bruised and pounded because she Is tn
best part of the harvest
The heft of the threshing machine
according to the value of the grain.
you have not been much threshed /
life, perhaps there is not much
thresh! If you have not been niue
shaken of trouble. perhaps it is becaus
there is going to be a very small yield
When there are plenty of blackberris
the gatherers go out with large ba
kets: but when the drought has almos
consumed the fruit. then quart mea.
ure will do as we'll. 1t took the venom
Gus snake on Paurs hand and til
pounding of him with stones until b
,.-.s %,l-ao mn fnr dead and the ian