Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-12
"THRESHING MACHINE
REV DIR. TALMAGgS TABERNACLE SERMON
YESTERDAY.
A Test That Presses Upon Our Souls for We Must
All Go Through the Thrsshing
Process.

BROOKLYN, June 11.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage chose as the subject for his ser
mon to-day THE Threshing Machine, 4"
the text being from Isa. 2S: 27,2S, ''FOr
ftches are not threshed with a thresh-
ing instrument, neither is cart wheel
H6rned about upon the cummin; but the
fitches are beaten out with staff, and
the cummin with q rod. Bread corn is
bruised; because he will not ever be
thrsshing il"
There are three kinds OF seed mem
toned: ftches, cummin and corn. or
the last we all know. But il may be
we'll to state that the ftches and the
cummin we're small seeds, like the car
away or the chick-pea. When these
grains or herbs were TO be threShed
they were thrown on the floor, and che
workmen would come around with stan,
OF rod. or fail, and beat them until the
seed would be separated; but when the
corn was 10 be threshed that was thrown
on the floor, and the men would faSten
horses or oxen TO cart with iron
Adented wheels; that cart would be
rawn around the threshing-hoor, and
81 the VI \ would be accomplished.
'Diherent Adsoi threshing for differ
ept profucts ''The ftehes are not
threshed with a threshing instrument,
neither is a cart wheel turned about
upon the cummin; but the ftches are
beaten out with a staff, and the cum
min with a rod. Bread corn Is bruised,
because he will not ever be threshing
it."
THE GREAT THOUGHT
A. trr.-,v, IA
that we all 60 through some kind Of
tbreshlng process. The fact that you
may be devotlng your life to honorable
and noble purposes will not win you
any escape. Wilberforce, the Christian
emancipation, was In his day derisIvely
called Doctor Cantwell," Thomas Bah
iugton Macauley, the advocate OF all
that was good long "betOre he became
the most conspicuous historian Of his
day, was caricatured in one OF the quar-
terly reviews as "BabbletOngue Ma
cauley." Norman Mcleod, the great
friend Of the Scotch poor, was industri-
Ously maligned in all quarters, although
on the day when be was carried out to
his burial a workman stood aud looked
at the funeral procession, and said, "if
he had done nothing for anybody more
hine as the stars forever and ever"
n the small wits in London had their
ing at John Wesley, the father or
MethOdism.
IL such men could not escape the
maligning OF the wcrld, neither can
You expect to get rid OF the sharp,
keen stroke of the trbulum, All who
will live cody in Christ Jesus must
suffer persecution. Besides that, there
are the sicknesses, and the bankrupt
cies, and the irritatiOns, and the dis
appointments which are ever putting a
cup os aloes to your lip. Those wrinkles
on your face are hieroglyphics, which,
If deciUhered, would make out thrill
ing story OF trouble. The fOOtstep OF
the rabbit is seen the next morning on
the snow, end on the white hairs Of the
agss1s he the footprints showing where
Swift trouble alighted.
EVEN AMID THE JOYS AND HILARITIEs
oflife, trouble will sometimes break in.
as when the people were assembled In
the Charlest0wn theatre, during the
Revolutionary war, and while they
were witnessing farce, and the au-
dience wss In great graduation, the
guns Of an advancing army were heard,
and the audience broke up in wild
panic and ran for their lives, so Oftimes
while you are seated amid the joys and
festivities Of this world you hear the
eannOnade OF some great disaster. All
the itcheS, and the cummin, and the
corn must come down on the threShing
floor and be pounded
Ny subject, In the first place, teaches
Us that IL Is no compliment TO US If we
escape great trial. The ftches and the
cummin on the threShing floor might !
look over to the corn on another thresh- |
ing 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, IL /
it had lips, would answer and say; do |
you know the reason you have not been |
rs much pounded as i have? lt 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 ]
there are no funerals in the house. IL /
may be because they are itches and /
cuRmin; while down at the end OF the /
land the poor widow may be the Lords |
corn. You are but little pounded be- |
cause you are but little worth, and she |
bruised aud ground because she is the |
BEST PART OF THE HARVEST.
The heft Of the threshlng machine is
according to the value OF the grain. II |
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 il is because |
there is going to be very small yield. |
Ahen there are plenty OF blackberries !
gatherers go out with large bask |
but when the drought has almost |
sumed the fruit, then a quart meas |
will do as well. IL took the ven
MS snake on Paurs hand and the /
ding Of him with stones until be |
taken up for dead, the the jamming /
inst hem Of prison gates and the /
EDhesian moderation, and the skinned /
ankles Of the painful stocks, and the /
laundering Of the AleXandrisn corn
ship, and the beheading stroke Of the
Roman sheriff 70 bring Paul TO his prop
er development.
1t was rot because Robert Nnlfat and /
Lady Rae ae Russei, and frederick
Oberlin were worse than otheA people
that they had to suffer, IL was because
they were better, and God wanted 20
make them best. By the carefulness Of
the threshing you may always conclude
the value OF the grain.