The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-06-23
WORLDLY TRIALS.
Dr.. Talmage Discourses on the
Threshing Process.
Great Trials of Value to the soul-God
Never Makes Troubles Too Heavy
to BE Borne-Christian sor-
rows Happy Ending.

the text being Isaiah 1927, 2S: $50
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 a rod. BreaC
corn is bruised, because he will no
ever be threshing it" DR. Talmage
said:
There are three kinds of seed men
tioned-fitches, cummin and corn. o.
the last we all know. But it may be
well 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 he 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 a 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 ftches are not
neither is a 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, be-
cause he will not ever be threshing il. ="
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 emancipator
was in his day derisively called "Dr
Cahtwell" 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 "Bab-
bletongue Alacaulay." Norman Me-
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 ne 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 at 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 a cup of
alOes to your lip. Those wrinkles on
Your face are hieroglyphics, which, if
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 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 a 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.yo 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
ties simply because their barns are full
and their bank account is flush, and I
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 '
thresh, If you have not been much {
shaken of trouble, perhaps it is because
there is going to be very small yield.
When there are plenty of blackberries c
the gatherers go out with large bas- +
lzets; but when the drought has almost t
consumed the fruit, then quart meas e
ure will do as we'll 1t took the venom /
GUS snake on Paurs hand and the {
pounding of him with stones until he
was taken up for dead, and the JAM {
ming against him of prison gates, and il
the Ephesian vociferation, and the Il
skinned ankles of the painful stocks, v
and the laundering of the Alexandrian U
corn-ship, and the beheading stroke of d
the Roman sheriff to bring Paul to his Il
proper development j;
1t was not because Robert Moffat and u
Lady Rachael Russell, and Frederick n
Oberlin were worse than other people r.
that they had TO suffer, it was because Il
they were better, and God wanted to O.
make them best. BY the carefulness of O
the threshing you may always conclude Il
the value of the grain. a
Next, my text teaches us that God e,
our trials to what we can rs
pear. The staff for the ftches. The e,