Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-06-17
WORLDLY TRIALS.
Dr.. Talmage Discourses on the
Threshing Process.
Great Trials OF Value to tho Soul God
Never Makes Troubles Too Heavy
to BE Borne Christian Sor-
rows Happy Ending.

subject chosen by Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage for n late sermon at Brooklyn,
the text being Isaiah 2S-27, aS: For
threshing instrument, neither Is cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin,
but the fitches are beaten out with a
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-fitches, cummin and corn. OF
the last we all know. But it may be
we'll 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 Il cart with
iron-dented wheels that cart would be
drawn around the threshing floor, and
so the work would be accomplished.
Different kinds of threshing for differ
ent products. "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, be-
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The great thought that the text
presses upon our souls is that we all go
through some kind of threshing pro-
cess. The fact that you 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 "Dr.
Cantwell." Thomas Darlington Macau-
lay, 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 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 ut John
Wesley, the father of Methodism.
If such men could not escape the ma
ligning of the world. neither can you
expect to get rid of the sharp, keen
stroke of the tribulum. All who will
live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer
persecution. Besides that. there are
the sicknesses, 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 a 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 seen 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 Charlestown theater, during the
revolutionary war, and while they were
witnessing a farce and the audience
was in great graduation, the guns OF
an advancing enemy were heard, and
the audience broke up in wild panic
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 the
fitches and cummin and the corn must
come down on the threshing 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 fitches and the
cummin on the threshing floor might
look over to the corn on another floor
and say: ''Look at that poor, miser-
able. bruised corn. We have only been
a little pounded, but that has been al
most 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 / have? 1t is be-
cause you are not of so much worth as
am; If you were you would be as Sc
verely run over" Yet there are men
who suppose they are the Lords favor
ites simply because their barns are full,
and their bank account is flush, and
there are no funerals in the house. 1t
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 be-
cause you are but little worth. and she
bruised and pounded because she is the
best part of the harvest.
The heft of the threshing machine is
according to the value of the grain. If
You have not been much threshed in
life, perhaps there is not much to
fhreshi If you have not been much