Democratic messenger., 1893-06-17
DEATH is 4 SUNRISE.
DR.. TALMAGE PICTURES THE FELlc-
tiles OF FUTURE LIFE.

How Men Go Through Gods Thra-hing
lation Are Eternal 10Y and Peace In the
Blissfui Hereafter.
BIooKLYN. June li.-Rcv. DIR. Talmage
chose as the subject for his sermon today
The Thrashing Machine the text being
from Isaiah xviii. -. IS For he fitches are
not thrashed with Il thrashing instrument
neither is n cart wheel turned about upon
the cummin but the fitchcs are beaten ont
with a staff and the cummin with rod.
Bread corn is bruised because he will not
ever be thrashing it.
There are three kinds Of seed mentioned
-ftchcs. cummin and corn. or the last
We all know. lSut il may he well to state
that the iitchcs and the cummn were small
seeds. like the carraway or the chickpca.
/ When these grains or herbs were to he
! thrashed. they We're thrown on the floor,
and the workmen would come around with
seed would be separated, but when the corn
was to be- thrashcd that was thrown on he
| floor. and the men would fastcn horses or
oxen to n cart with iron dcnted wheels
! That cart would he drawn around the
thrashing floor. and 50 the work would bc
accomplished. Different kinds of thrashing
! for different products. The ftches are
/ not thrashed with a thrashing instrument,
neither il u cart wheel turned about upon
! the cummin. but the iitches are beaten out
with staff and the cummin with rod
| Bread corn is bruised because he will not
ever be thrlshing it,
The great thought that the text presses
upon our souls is that we all go through
some Kind of :hrashng process. The fact
that you may he dcvo,ing yoar life TO hon
orablc and noble purposes will not win you
any escape Wilbcrforcc, the Christian
emancipator. was in his day dcrisivcly
called "Dr. Cantwcll" Thomas Babing-
ton Macaulay. the advocate of all that was
good long before he became the most con
spicuous historian of his day. was carica-
turcd in one Of the quarterly reviews as
"Babbletonguc Macaulay." Norman Me
Ieod. the great friend of the Scotch poor.
was industriously malignetl in all quar-
! tiers. although ON the day when he was car
ried out to his burial workm stood and
1 looked mt the funeral procession and said.
IF 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 Mcthodism.
| II such men could not escape the malign-
ing Of the world. neither can you expect To
get rid of the sharp. keen stroke Of the trib-
ulum. All who will live godly in Christ
Jesus must suffer persecution Besides
that there are the sicknesscs. and the bank
ruptcicS, and the irritationS. and the disap-
pontmcnts which are ever putting a cup of
aloes to your lip. Those wrinkles on Your
face are hieroglyphics which. if deciphcrcd.
would make out thrilling story Of trou-
BILE The footstep of the rabbit j. seen the
next morning ON the snow, and on the
white hairs of the aged are the footprints
showing where swift trouble aliyhted
CLoUDs WITH SUNSHINE.
Even ar.;d the Joys and hilarities of life
trouble will sometimes break in. As when
the people were assembled in the Charles
town theater during the Revolutionary
war and while they We're witnessing n
farce and the audience was in great gratu-
lation the guns of AN advancing army We're
heard and the audience broke up in wild
panic and ran for their lives, So ofttimes
while you are seated amid the joys and fcs-
tivities Of this world you hear the cannon
ade Of some great disaster. All the fitches,
and the cummin. and the corn must come
down on the ihrashing floor and be pounded
My subject. in the first place. teaches Us
that il is no compliment 10 us if we escape
great trial. The iitchcS and the cilmmin ON
the thrashing floor might look over to the
corn on another thrashing floor and say:
Look at that poor, miserable, bruised
corn! We have only been little pounded,
but that has been almost destroyed. Well,
the corn. if il had lips. would answer and
say: DO you know the reason you have
not been as much pounded as have, Its
because You are not of so much worth rs
am. II you were, you would be rs severely
run over.
Yet there are men who suppose they ARE
the Lords iavoritcs simply because their
barns are full and their bank account is
flush, and there are no funerals in the
house. Il may he because they are fitches
and cummin, while down at the end of he
lane the poor widow may be 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 heft of the thrashing machine is ac-
cortling to the value of the grain. II YOU
have not been much thrashed in life, per
haps there is not much To thrash. Ii you
have not been much shaken of trouble per
haps il is because there is going to be Il very
small yield When there are plenty of
black the gatherers 20 out with
large baskets. but when the drought has
almost consumed the fruit then II quart
measure will do rs well. IL took the ven
omous snake on Paul hand. and The pound
ing of him with stones until he was taken
up for dead, and the jamming against him
of prison gates, and the Ephesian vocifer-
alton, and the skinned ankles of the pain
full stocks, and the laundering of the Alex
andrian corn ship. and the behea,ling st roke
of the Roman sheriff to bring Paul to his
proper development.
II was not because Robert Mofrat and
Lady Rachel Rus>cl and Frederick Ober-
lin were worse than other people that they
had To suffer IL was because they were
better. and God wanted to make them best
BY the carcfulncss Of the thr;lshing YOU
may always conclude the value Of the
grain.
GOD TEMPEHS OUR TRIALS.
Next my text teaches US that God pro-
portions our trials to what we can bear
The staff for the fitches The rod for the
cummin. The iron wheel for the corn
Sometimes people in great trouble say,
"Oh, can't bear it, But you did bear it,
God would not have sent il upon you il he
did not know that you could bear il. You
trembled, and You swooned, but YOU got
through God will not take from your eyes
one tear too many, nor from your lungs one
sigh too deep nor from your temples one
throb too sharp. The perpleXities of your
earthly business have not in them one tan
gle too intricate.