The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-06-22
DEATH Is A SUNRISE.
DR.. TALMAGE PICTURES THE FELlCi
TIES OF FUTURE LIFE.

Mach hIne-The Fruits OF Trial snd II ibu-
lations Arc Eternal JOY and Peace In
tho BlissfuI Hereafter.
BROOKLYN, June ILL., Rev DR. Tai
mage chose as the subject for his SER
mon today 1.-The ThrashnS Machine" !"
the text being from Isaiah xviii, 81, %
"For the ftchcs are not tbrashed Will,
thrashing instrument, neither is cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin,
but the fitches arc beaten out with a
staff and tho cummin with rod. Bread
corn is bruised because he will not ever
be thrashing it,"
There are three kinds of seed men.
tioned-fitches, cummin an;. corn. O
the last we all know. But it may be
we'll to state that the iitChes and thc
cummin were small seeds, like the car.
raway or the chickpea. When these
grains or herbs were to be thrashcd,
they were thrown on the hoor, and the
workmen would come around with stail
or rod or fail and beat them until the
seed would be separated, but when the
corn was to be thrashed that was thrown
on the floor. and the men would iastcn
horses or oxen to q cart with iron dent
ed wheels. That cart would be drawn
around the thrashing Aoor, aud so the
work would be accomplished. different
kinds of thrashing Tor different products.
1.-THE litches arc not thrashcd with a
thrashing instrument, neither is Il cart
wheel turned about upon the cummn,
but the litchcs are beaten ont with
staff and the cummln with rod. Bread
corn is bruised because he will not ever
be thrashing it,"
The great thought that the text press
es upon our souls is that we all go
through some kind of thrashlng process.
The fact that you may be dcvoting your
life to honorable and noble purposes will
not win you any escape. Wilberlorcc,
the Christian emanclpat0r, was IN his
day derisively called "Dr. Cuntwcll."
Thomas BnbingtOn Macaulay, the adj
VOcate OF all that was good long before
he became the most conspicuous histo.
ran OF his day, was Carcaturcd in one
OF the quarterly reviews as "Babblc-
tongue MaCaulay." Norman Mcleod,
the great friend OF the Scotch poor, was
industriouslY maligncd iii all quarters,
although on the day whcl he was car
rled out to his burial workman stood
and loOksd at the funeral procession and
said, "It he had done nothing for any
body more than he has done for me, he
should shine as the stars forever and cv-
er." All the small wits OF London had |
their fling at John Wesley, the father OF |
Methodism.
lfsuch men could not escape the ma
llgning OF the world neither can you eX-
pect to get rid OF the sharp, keen stroke
OF the trlbulllm. All who viii Ii g god
ly III Christ Jesus must suffer prrsecu.
ton. Besides that there are the sick.
nesses, and the bankruptcies. and the
lrritations, and the dlsappomtmcnts
winch are over putting & cup Of alOcs to
your lip. Those wrinkles on your iacc
are hleroglYphlcs which, if dcclphcrcd,
would make out thrilling story of
trouble. The lOotstcp OF the rabbit is
seen The next morning on the snow, and
on The white hairs OF the aged are The
footprints showing where swift trouble
alighted. =.
Even amla the joys and hilarit,cs of
lie trouble will sometimes break in. As
when the people were assembled in the
CharlestOwn thcater during the Rcyo-
lutlonary war and while thew were wit
Messing farce and the audience was IN
great graduation the guns Of an advanc-
ing army were heard aud the audience
broke up in wild panic and ran for their
lives, 80 ofttimcs while YOU are seated
amid The Joys and icGtlV,ics CT lhjs
world you hear the cannonadc OF some i
great disaster. All The htChcs and the
cnmmln va |
oh the thrashlng floor and be bounded. {
my subject, IN the first place, teaches
us Ihat IL IS no compliment to us if we
escape great ual. The litchcs and the
Gummlh on the thrashing floor might
look over 70 the corn on another thrash s
Ihg moor and say: Look at that poor. {
nllSeraple, bruised corn! We have on. )
~ Deen little pounded, but that has |
peen almost destroyed" Well the corn |
~ ~ had llps, would answer and say: {
10 you know the reason you have not !
peeh as much pounded as | have? It's 9
pecause you are not OF 50 much worth {
as am. liyou were you would be &C. |
Verely run over" ,
Aet there are men who suppose thew y
are Inc loid's favorltes simply because
thelr barns are full, and their bank ac. +;
Go.h. =. , 10 Aush, and there are no funerals I
IA tne house. 1t may be because thew =
are are lltches and cummin, while down a, -,
~" eno o. the lane the poor widow NAV
DO the Lords corn. You are but rttln @
ino..n pouuuea because you are but LITTLE ,
worth, and She b.ulsed and ground 'tt,o ~,
-"THo r, s,le 10 the best part of the harvest
me heit OF The thrashlng machine ia
according TO the value of the grain Tir|
you have no. been much thrashed in nfa
perhaps there is not much to thrash, ''iU 10
you have not been much shaken Of 1,,, ftro,h ~
10, perhaps It ls because there ia oo;nn
to be very small yield. When tbere
are plenty OF blackberries, the patbercrs
60 out with large baskets, but when tho
drought has almost consumed the fruit
then quart measure will do as well II
took the venomous snake on Paul's hand
and the pounding of him with stones nm.
Gil he was taken up for dead, and tho
against him of prison gates,
and the Ephesian vociferation, and the
skinned ankles of the painful stocks, The
of the AlexandSian corn shin
ma the beheading stroke of the l,oman |