Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-06-15
THE GOLDEN GRAINS.
DIR, TALMAGE breaches FROM
ISA. 2S:27-2S.
For tho Pitches Are Not Threshed from
Threshing Machine, Neither Is q
CartwheeI Turned About Upon the
Cummin.

BROOKLYN, June 1.-THE Rev DR.. Tai
mage chose as the subject for his sermon
to-day: The 1hreshing Machine" the text
being from lisa. 2S: ~, g. For the fitches
are not threshed with a threshing instru-
ment neither is q 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-
cause he will not ever be threshing it."
There are three kinds of seed
mentioned; fitches, cummin, and corn.
OF the last we oil know. But it may
be we'll to state that the fitches and
the cummin were small seeds, like the
carraway or the chick-pea. When
these grains or herbs were to be
threshed they were thrown upon the
floor, and the workmen would come
around with staff, or rod, or fail, and
beat them until the seed would be
separated; but when the corn was
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 on
the threshing- floor, and so the work
would be accomplished Different
kinds of threshing for different pro-
ducts. The ftches are not threshed
with n threshing instrument, neither
is a cart-wheel turned about upon the
cummin; but the fitches are beaten out
with staff, and the cummin with a
rod. Bread corn is bruised because he
will not ever be threshing it,"
The great thought that the text
presses upon our souls is that we all
go through some kind of threshing
process. The fact that you may be de-
voting your life to honorable and noble
purposes will not win you any escape.
Wilberforce, the Christian emancipa.
tor, was in his day derisively called
"Dr. Cantwell" Thomas darlington
Macaulay. the advocate of all that was
good long before he became the most
conspicuous historian of his day, was
caricatured in one of the quarterly re-
views as "Babbletongue Macaulay.'
Norman Mcleod, the great friend OF
the Scotch roOr, was industriously
maligned in all quarters, although on
the day when he was carried out to his
burial a workman stood and looked al
the funeral procession, and said, al
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
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
tho sinlFnnCEns nj thn hn MI o+,,
and the cations, and the diSappoint t.
ments which are ever putting a cup OF
aloeS to your lip. Those wrinkles on
your face are hieroglyphics, which, il
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 the footprints showing where
swift trouble alighted.
Even amid the joys AMI hi'arities OF
life, trouble will sometimes break in.
Us when the people were assembled in
the CharlestOwn theater, during the
Revolutionary war, and while they
were witnessing farce, and the audi
ence was in great graduation, the guns
of an advancing army were heard, and
the audience broke up in wild panic
and ran for their lives, Soofttimes while
you are seated amid the joys and fes
tivities of this world you hear the can
nonade of some great disaster. AL
the titcheS, and the cummin, and the
corn must come down on the threshine
floor aud be pounded,
My subject, in the first place, teaches
us that it is no compliment to us if we
escape great trial. The fitches anC
the cummin on the threshing floor
might look over to the corn on an
other threshing floor and say: ''Lool
at that poor, misera bic, bruised corn
We have only been little pounded
but that has been almost DESTROYED.
Well, the corn, if it had lips, would
answer and say; do you know the
reason You have not been as mucl
pounded as | have? 1t is becau Sc yor
are not of so much worth as | am; i
/ you were You would be as severely run
/ over ct there are men who sup
! pose they are the Lords favorites sim
! ply because their barns are full, anC
| their bank account flush, and there ar,
no funerals in the house. 1t NAV l.,
because they are ftches and cummin
while down at the end of the lane tn,
] pom " 4N''' iiittN NC Viz l1Olu , COl II
! You are but little pounded because
you are but little worth. and sh,
! bruised and ground because she is thu
! best part of the harvest.
The heft of the threshipg machine il
according to the value of the grain. |
YOU have not been much threshed il
life. perhaps there is not much t,
thresh! If You have not been mucl
shaken of trouble, perhaps it is be
cause there is going to be very small
| yield. When there are plenty o
blackberries the gatherers go out will
large basket; but when the drough
has almost consumed the fruit, then
quart measure will do as well.
took the venomous snake on Paul
hand and the pounding of him witt
stones until he was taken up for dead
and the cumming against him o
prison gates, and the Ephesiau voci
feration, and the skinned ankles o
the painful stocks, and the founderinl
OF the AleXandrian corn ship, and tn
beheading stroke of the Roman Sheriff
20 bring Paul to mis- proper develop
ment.
1t was not because Robert Moffat
and Lady Rachel Russell, and Freder
lex Obcrlin were worse than othe
people that they had to suffer: it wa
because they were better, and Co
wanted TO make them best Bv tn
carefulness of the threshing you ma
always conclud, the value of the grain
Next, my text teac hes us that Co
proportions our trials to what we ca,
bear. The staff for the fitches. II
ROD for the cummin. The iron whee
for the corn. Sometimes people il
great trouble say: "Oh, / can't bea
it, But you did bear it. God woul
not have sent it upon you il he did no
know that you could bear it. Yo
trembled and YOU swooned; but yo
got through. God will not take fror
your eyes one tear too many, nor fror
your lungs one sigh toe deep, nor fror
. your temples one throb TOO sharr
The perplexities of your eai thly bus
ness have not in them one tangle TO
intricate.
You sometimes feel as if our worl
were full of bludgeons flying haphaz
ard Oh, no; they are threshing instru
ments that God just suits TO your case
There is not dollar of bad debts O.
your ledger, or disappointment a bou
goods that you expected to go up bu
hat