The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
THE STAFF AND ROD.
REV, DIR. TALMAeE'S ELOQUENT SER
MON ON THE THRASHlNG PROCESS.

MON ON THE THRASHlNG PROCESS.
The Natures That Are Bruised Because
They win Not lie Thrashed - Human
Mistakes and 9mnipotent Aesur"ey-The
Power of the Celestial Anodyne.
BROOKLYN, June 11.-Rev, DIR. Tai.
mage chose as the subject for his sermon
today THE Thrashing Machine" the
text being from Isaiah xviii, 81, 2s. "Foi
the fitohes are not thrashed with a
thrashing instrument, neither is a cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin,
but the fitches are beaten out with q
staff and the 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 and corn. OF
the last we all know. But it may be
well to state that the fitches and the
cummin We're small seeds like the cara
way or the chickpea. When thesegrains
vi IltibS NtIt W NC tIlu SiltN, lItN NtlN
thrown ON 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
be thrashed that was thrown on the
floor, and the men would fasten horses
or oxen to cart with iron denied
wheels That cart would be drawn
around the Crashing floor, and so the
work would be accomplished. Different
kinds Of thrashing for different products,
.The ftches are not thrashed with a
thrashing instrument, neither is cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin
but the fitches are beaten out with a
staff and the cummin with arod. Bread
corn is bruised because he will not ever
be thrashing it."
THE THRASTING PROCESS.
The great thought that the text presses
upon our souls is that we all go through
some kind of thrashing process. The
fact that 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 DIR. Cantwell. y
Thomas Darlington Macaulay, the adj
vocate Of AL 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
Nj" alay." Norman Mcleod, the great
friritl of the Scotch poor, was industri-
ouely maligned in all quarters, although
on the day when he was carried out tc
his burial workman stood and looked
at the funeral procession and said, I'll
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 al
John Wesley, the father of Methodism.
If such men could not escape the ma.
ligning of the world, neither can you ex.
pcct to get ril Of the sharp, keen stroke
of the trihulum. 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 If
ritations, and the disappointments which
are ever putting a cup of aloes to YOU
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 thn 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 he people We're assembled in the
| CharlpStown theater during the Revolu
tionary war ard while they were wit
| Messing u farce ard the audience was in
| great gratrlttiun the guns of an adj
| vane:ng army We're heard and the au
dience broi.e up in wild panic and ran
| for their lives. so ofttines while you are
seated a:a;A the joys and festivities Of
! this world ynu hear the cannonade OF
some meas disaster. All the fitches, and
| the ciiIEmia and the corn must come
down on tie thrashing floor and be
| pounded
My subject, in the first place, teaches
us that il IS 10 compliment to us if We
escape greet trial The ftches and the
| cummin on The thrashing floor might
| look over to The corn on another thrash
| ing floor ard say: Look at that poor
| miserable. praised corn We have only
been y Ettle pounded. but that has bee:
almost destroyed" Well. the corn, if il
| lad lips. woG!d answer and say: "DC
you know the reason you have not bee,
as much pounded as have? 1t is be
cause you are not Of SO much worth as
| | am. II you We're. you would be as
| severely run over
Yet there are men who suppose they
ere tie Lords favorites simply because
| their barns arc full, and their bank ac
ponnt is flush. and there are no funerals
| In the lIor3e Il may be because they arr
| ftckes ana c;,ni1nip, while down at the
| end Of the lane the poor widow may bt
! 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 hett of the thrashing machine il
according 10 the value of the grain. Il
| you have not been much thrashed in life
| perhaps there is not much to thrash. Il
you have not been much shaken of trou
bic, perhaps it is because there is going
to be very small yield. When there
are plenty of blackberries, the gatherers
| go ont with large baskets, but when the
drought has almost consumed the fruit
then Il quart measure will do as we'll L
| took the venomous snake on Paul's han(
and the pounding of him with stones un
| til he was taken up for dead, and the jam
ming against him of prison gates, an(
| the Ephesian yociferation, and tn,
skinned ankles Of the painful stocks, ant
the laundering of the Alexandrian corr
ship, and the beheading stroke of thu
Roman sheriff to bring Paul to his prop
er development