Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-06-17
THE STAFF AND ROD.
aEv. DR.. .TALMAeE's ELOQUENT SER
Z MON ON TIE THRAsHlNe PROCESS

MON ON TIE THRAsHlNe PROCESS.
Tho Naturess Tint Arc Bruised Because
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Mistakes aid omnipotont Accuracy-The
Power Of the Celestial Anodync.
BROOKLYN. June 11.-Rev. DR.. Tai.
mage choseas the subject for his sermon
today 1.-THE Thrashing Machine" the
text. being from Isaiah xviii, 81, 9s, "For
the ftches are not thrashed with o
thrashing instrument, neither Is cart
wheel turned about upon the cunmin,
but the ftches are beaten out with q
staff and the cummin with q rod Bread
corn is bruised because he will not ever
be thrashing it,
There are three kinds of seed men.
tioned-ftchos, culnmin and corn. OF
the last VIC all know. But it may be
well to state that the ftches and the
culnmin were small seeds like the CARA
way or the chickpea. When these grains
or herbs were to be thrashed, they were
thrown or the floor, and the workmen
would come around with staff or rod OF
fail and beat them until the seed would
be separated, but when the corn was to
DO thrasEed that was thrown on tho
floor andthe men would fasten horses
or oxen 10 "a cart with iron dented
wheels. sThat cart would be drawn
around the thrashing floor, and 30 the
work would BIO accomplished. Different
kinds of thrashing for different products.
'The ftches arc not threshed with q
thrashing instrument, neither is cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin,
but the zftches are beaten out with a
staf andIthe cummin with arod. Bread
corn is bruised because he will not ever
be thrashing it."
TILE THRAsHNG PROCESS.
The great thought that the text pressea
upon our souls is that we all go through
some kind Of thrashing process. The
fact tha5 you may be devoting your life
to honorable and noble purposes will not
win You any escape. Wilberforce, the
Christian emancipation, was in his day
derisively called "Dr. Cantwell. y
Thomas Darlington Macaulay, the adj
Yocatoef all that was good long before
he became the most conspicuous histo.
yian ofShis-day. was caricatured in one Of
the quarterly reviews as "Babbletongue
MacauaY: Norman Mcleod, the great
friend of:the Scotch poor, was industri-
oasly nsa1lgned in all quarters, although
on thesday when he was carried out to
his bunal.a workman stood and looked
at the funeral procession and said, "It
he had done nothing for anybody more
than done for me, he should shine
as thesEaW forever and ever" All the
small of London had their fling at
JohnA lesley, the father Of Methodism.
IfsltR9nen could not escape the ma
:Ligninng pEfhe world, neither can you ex-
pect3f csgsfrid. of the sharp, keen stroke
of the5tfbnlum. Allwho will live god
~ inchtSlst Jesus must suffer, persecu-
ton. iaGdes that there are the sick
Inesse5S the hankrup tcies, and the ir-
}add tfls Gisapp
are ever putting a cup Of aloes to your
lip. Those wrinkles on your face are
hieroglyphics which, if deciphered,
would mako out thrilling story Of
trouble. Thefootstepo of the rabbit is
seen the next morning on the snow, and
on the white hairs of the aged are foot
prints 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
Charlestown theater during the Revolu-
tionary war and while they were wit
Messing farce and the audience was in
great graduation the guns of an adj
vancing army were heard and the au-
dienco broke up in wild panic and ran
for their lives, SO ofttimes while you are
seated amid the joys and festivities of
this world you hear the cannonade of
some great disaster. All tho fitches, and
the cumlnin, and the corn must come
down on The. thraslling floor and be
pounded.
My subject, in the first place, teaches
us that it is no compliment to us if we
escape great trial. The ftches and the
cummin on the thrashing floor might
look over to the corn on another thrash
ing floor and say; Look at that poor,
miserable, bruised corn We have only
been a little pounded, but that has been
almost destroyed" Well, the corn, if it
had lips, would answer and say: "Do
you know the reason you have not been
as much pounded as I have? 1t is be-
cause you are not of so much worth as
am. If you were. you would be as
severely run over"
Yet there are men who suppose they
are the Lords favorites simply because
their barns are full, and their bank ac-
count is flush, and there are no funerals
in the house. 1t may be because they are
ftches and cunnlin. while down at the
end of the lune the poor widow may be
the Lords corn. You are but little
pounded because you are but little worth,
and she bruised and ground because she
is the best part of the harvest.
The heft Of the thrashing machine is
according to the value of the grain. If
you have not been much thrashedin life,
perhaps there is not much to'thrash. If
you have not been much shaken of trou-
BILE, perhaps it is because there is going
to be very small yield. When there
are plenty of blackberries. the gatherers
go out with large baskets, but when the
drought has almost consumed the fruit
then quart measure will do as well. 1t
took tho venomous snake on Paul's hand
and the pounding of him with stones I'M
til he was taken up for dead, and the jam
ming against him of prison gates, and
the Ephesian yociferation, and the
skinned ankles Of the painful stocks, and
the laundering of the Alexandrian corn
ship, and the beheading stroke of the
Roman sheriff to bring Paul to his prop
er development.
1t was not because Robert Mofat and