The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-13

ing peg was thrust into the corn and
then there must be n stout pull before
the swathing was taken Oft the car and
the full, round, healthy, luxuriant corn
was developed; while, on tho other
hand, there was corn that hardly
seemed worth husking. We threw that
into place all by itself, and we called
IL "nubbins." Some Of II was mildewed
and some of IL was mice-nibbled and
some OF 1t was great promise and no
fulfllment-all cobs and no corn. Nub-
bins! After the good corn had been
driven up 10 the barn we came around
with the corn basket and we picked up
these nubbins.
They were worth saving, but not
worth much. SO all round us there are
people who amount To comparatively
nothing. They develop into no kind of
usefulness They are nibbled on one
side by the world. and nibbled on the
other side by the devil, and mildcwed
all over. Great promise and no fulfill
ment. All cobs and no corn Nubbinsl
They are worth saving suppose many
OF them will get TO Heaven, but they
are not worthy TO be mentioned in the
same day with those who went through
great tribulation into the kingdom of
our God.
Who would not rather have the pains
of this life, the misfortunes of this life
who would not rather be torn, and
wounded, and lacerated, and wrenched,
and huskcd, and at last go in amid the
very best grain of the granary, than TO
be pronounced not worth husking at
all? NubbinS. in other words. want
TO say TO you people who have distress
! of body, and distress in business, and
| distress of all sorts, the Lord has not
any grudge against you. 1t is not
derogatory, it is complimentary.
Whom the Lord loveth He chasten-
eth" and it is proof positive that there
is something valuable in you or the
Lord would not have huskcd you.
You remember, also, that in the time
of husking it was ncighborhood re-
union. BY the great fireplace in the
winter, the fires roaring around the
glorified bacll.logs on the old-fashioned
hearth, of which the modern stoves and
registers are only the degenerate de-
scendauts, the farmers used to gather
and spend the evening, and there would
be much sociality; but il was not any
thing like the joy of the husking time,
for then all the farmers came, and they
came in the very best humor, and they
came from beyond meadow and they
came from beyond the brook and they
came from regions two and three miles
around.
Good spirits reigned supreme, and
there We're great handshakings, and
there was carnival, and there was the
recital of tho brightest experience of all
their lives, and there was neighbour
hood reunion the memory of which
makes all the nerves of my body trcm-
BILE with emotion rs the spirits Of harp
when the fingers of n player have swept
the chords The huskiug time was the
time of the neighborhood reunion, and
so Heaven will be just that. There
they come up! They slept in the old
village churchyard. There they come
up! They recliued amid the fountains
and the sculpture and the parterres of
city cemetery. There they come up!
They went down when the ship found |
cred off Cape Hatteras
They come up from all sides-from
pottcr's field and out of the solid ma
sonry of Westminster Abbey. They
come up! They come up! All the him
ORANGES 10 their better nature husked
off All their spiritual dependencies
huslSed off, All their hiudrances 10 use
golden grain, the God-fashioned grain
visible aud conspicuous. Some of them
ON earth were such disagrceable Chris
tians you could hardly stand in their
presence. Now in Heaven they are so
radiant you hardly know them The
fact is all their imperfcctions have been
huslcd off. They did not mean on
earth TO be disagrccablc
They meant well enough, but they
told you how sick you looked, and they
told you how many hard things they
had heard about you, and they told
you how often they had 10 stand up for
you in some battles until you wished
almost that they had been slain in some
of the battles Good, pious, consecrated,
well-meaning disagrecabes. Now, in
Heaven all their oifensivencss has been
husled off. Each one is as happy us he
can be. Everyone he meets as happy rs
he can be.
Heaven one great neighborhood re-
union. All kings and queens all song
stcrs, all millionaires, all banqueters.
God, the father, with His children all
around Him. No "good-by" in all the
air. No grave cut In all the hills
River of crystal rolling over bed OF
pearl, under arch of chrysoprasc, into
seas OF glass mingled with fire. Stand