Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-06-23
THE TAREsHING MACHINE
EVERY MORTAL MUST ENDURE THE
THREsHING PROCESS.
Grca, r-sals a Sign of a soul.s Great
vnluc-Christinn sorrow Has a
Sure Terminus - Troubles Never
Made Too Heavy.

Made Too Heavy.
Brcoklyn, Special.-Dr. Tallnage
chose as the subject for his sermon to-
day: 1.-THE Thrcshing Machine" tie
text being from lisa. 2S:27, IS, "For
tho ftchcs are not thrcshed with a
threshing instrument, neither is Il cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin,
but the tiches are beaten out with
q staff and the cummin with a rod.
Bread corr is bruised, because he Will
not eve be thrcshing it."
There are three kinds of seed men
toned: Pitches, cummin and corn. OF
the last we all know. But it may be
we'll to state that the fitches and the
cuMmin We're small seeds, like the
carraway or the thick-pea. When
these grains or herbs were to be
thicsled they were thrown on the
floor and the workmen come around
with staff, or rod, or fail, and beat
them until the seed. would be separ-
atcd: but when the corn was to be
thlcslled that was thrown on the floor,
ttAAl luC llSIl MOuIl 1lSlSIk HUI SIS vi
oxen to a cart with iron-dented wheels;
that cart would be drawn around the
thrcsling floor, aud SO the work would
he accomplished. Different kinds of
tlrcslling for different products. 1.-The
titches are not threshed with u tllrcsh-
ing instrument, neither is Il cart-wheel
turned about upon the cummln; but
the titcheS are beaten Out with 81 staff
nnI tia run,u,in with n y.OO RrnOd
corn is bruised, because it will not
evcr be tlreshing it,"
The great thought that the text
presses upon our souls is that we all
80 through some kind of threshing
process. The fact that you may he de-
voting your life to honorable and no.
bic proposes will not win you any
escape. WilEerforcc, the Christian
emancipation, was in his day d%crisively
called 'Dr. Cantwcil." Thomas Bah
ington Macauley, the advocate of all
that WAS good before he became the
most conspicuous historian of his day,
was caricatured i'll n of the quarter
~ reviews as "Babblctonguc Mncau-
ley Norman McI4co. 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 IL workman stood and looked
at the funeral procession and said:
'lf he had done nothing for anybody
more than he has done for me, he
should shine as the stars for ever and
ever" All the small wits of London
had their fling at John Wesley, the
father of Mathodism.
If suc!, men could not escape tho
naligning 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
arc the siclinesses. and the bankrupt
cies. and the irritntions, and the dis
appointments which are eve putting
II cup Of aloes to your lip. Those
wrinkles on your face are hicrosiyph-
fcs. which. il decipllcred. would make
out Il thrilling story of trouble. The
footstep of the rabbit is seen the next
morning on The SNOW, aud on the white
hairs of The aged are tie footprints
showing where swift trouble aligllted.
Even amid the joys and lilaritics of
life, trouble will sometimes break i'll.
AS when the people We're assembled
in the Charleston thaatcr, during the
Revolutionary war. and while they
were witnessing a farce. and the audi
cnce was in great graduation. the guns
of an advancing enemy were heard.
and the audience broke up i'll Wild
manic and ran for their lives. SO
oftimes while you arc seated amid
the joys and festivities of this World
YOU hear the c%annonadc of some great
disaster. All the titclles and the cum
min and the corn must come ON the
threshing floor and he pounded.
NV subject, i'll the first place. teaches
MS that III is no compliment to US If we
.scape great trial. The titclies and the
eummin on the tllreshing floor might
look over to the corn on another floor
and saw: Look ut that poor. miscra-
Die. bruised, corn. We have only been
a little pounded, but that has been nj.
most destroyed" Well. the corn. if it
lad lips. would answer and say: "Do
you know the reason you have not been
As much pounded as ! have: III is be
,ause you are moi of so much worth as
1 am; if you were YOU would he as
severely run over Yet there are me1
who suppose they are the Lords fl
yoritu simply because their barns arr
full. and their bank account is flush
and there are no funerals i'll the house
IL MAY be because they arc tltcIfS ;lnt
cummin: while down at the end o,
The lane the poor widow may be TIL,
i.ord's corn. You are but little pound
cd because you are but little worth
and she bruised and pounded because
she is the best part of the harvest.
The hcft of the threshing machine
is according to the value of the grain
LII you have not been mach tllresllet
in life. perhaps there is not much t,
,lresh! If you have not been m,cl
shaken of trouble. perhaps it is becaus
there is going to be Il very small yield
When there are plenty of blackbcrric
the, gathcrers go out with large bias
kcts; but when the drought has almos
consumed ths fruit, then IL quart meas
IRE will do as we'll. 1t took the vel
omous snake on Paul's hand and til
pounding of him with stones until Ii
was taken up for dead. and the jan
ming against him of prison gates. All
the llpliesian vocifcration. and til
skinned ankles of the painful stock!
and the laundering of the Alexandria
co,n-sIip, and the bcheading stroke 4
the Roman Sheriff to bring Paul to III
proper development.
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