Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-06-12

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text being nom Issiels xxviii. 81. se. "S'oi
the Gtches are not thrsshed with 4
thrashing jnstrumept. neither Is cart
wheel turned about upon the curnmio,
but the fitches are beaten out with n
staff and the cummin with q rod. Bread
corn Ia bruised because he will not ever
bo thrashing IT,"
There are three kinds of seed men
tioned-ftches cummin and corn. OF
the last we all know. But IL may be
well TO state that the fltches and the
cummin were small seeds like the CARA
way or the chickpea. When these grains
or herbs were TO be thrashed, they were
thrown on the floor, and the worknen
would come around with staff or rod or
fail and beat them until the seed would
be separated, but when tho corn was to
be thrashed that was thrown on the
floor. and the mon would fasten horses
or oxen to cart with iron dented
wheels. That cart would be drawn
around the thrashing floor, and 80 the
work would be accomplished. Different
kinds of thrashing for different products.
"The ftches are not thrashed with
thrashing instrument. neither is cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin,
but the fitches are beaten out with q
staff and the cummin with arod. Bread
corn is bruised because he will not ever
be thrashing it,"
THE THRAsHING PROCESS.
The great thought that the text presses
upon our souls is that we all go through
some kind Of thrashing process. The
fact thatS you may be devoting your life
to honorable and noble purposes will not
win you any escape. Wilberforce, the
Christian emancipator, was in his day
derisively called "Dr. Cantwell."
Thomas Darlington Macaulay, the ad-
vocate Of all that was good long before
he became the most conspicuous histo-
rian Of his day, was caricatured In one of
the quarterly reviews as 'Babbletongue
Norman Mcleod, the great
friend Of the Scotch poor, was industri-
ously maligned in all quarters, although
on the day when he was carried out to
his burial 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 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 can you ex.
pect to get rid Of the sharp, keen stroke
of the tribulum. All who will live god
ly in Christ Jesus must suffer .persecu-
ton. Besides that there are the sick
nesses and the bankruptcies, and the ir-
ritations, and the disappointments which
are ever putting cup Of aloes to your
lip. Those wrinkles on your face are
hieroglyphics which, Il deciphered,
would make out . thrilling story of
trouble. The footstep 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 wal. and while they were wit.
Messing farce and the audience was In
great graduation the guns of an ad-
vancing army were heard and the au-
dience 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 the fitches, and
the cummin. and the corn, must come
down on the thrashing floor and be
pounded.
My subject. in the first place, teaches
us that it is no compliment to us II 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 little pounded, but that has been
almost destroyed" Well, the corn, II it
hou hPos (WOuAd duoWOA oufA ny ~
you know the reason you have not been
as much pounded as ] have? 1t is be-
cause you are not of SO much worth as
l am. II you. were. You would be as
severely run over" FMf
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. II may be because they are
fitches and cummin, while down at the
end Of the lane 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 abe
is the best part Of the harvest.
The heft Of the thrashing machine is
according to the value Of the grain. II
you have not been much thrashed In life.
perhaps there is not much to thrash. II
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
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