Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-10-20


they go away -s~,4I us we stand b.
nunbcd in body and beuumbcd in minu
and benum bcd in soul We stand
among our dead neighbors. our dead
families, and we say: ''Wiu We ever
get over it?' les, we will get over IL
amid the shoutings of Heavenly reun-
ion, and we will look back to ali these
distresses of bereavement only as the
temporary distresses of husking time.
Weeping MAJ endure for "A night, but
joy cometh in the morning" Light,
and but for moment said the apos-
tie as he clapped his hand. light. and
but for n moment" The chill of the
frosts followed by the gladness that
cometh in like as shock of corn com
eth in in his season"
OF course. the huslxing time made
rough work with the ear of corn. The
husking peg had To be- thrust in and
the hard thumb of the husl<er had TO
come down on the swathing of the ear.
and then there was pull and ruth
less tearing, and then complete snap
ping off before the corn was free, and
il the huSk could have spoken il
would have said: why do YOU lacer-
ate me? Why do you wrench me?-
NY THIS II the WAY trOd
has arranged that the ear and
the husk shall part and that is
the way He has arranged that the
body and soul shall separate You can
afford To have your physical dis
tresses when you know that they are
only forwarding the souls liberation
Every rheumatic pain is only plunge
of the huslling peg. Every neuralgia
twinge IL only twist by the husker.
There is gold in you which must come
out. Some way the shacl<le must be
broken. Some way the ship must
he launched for heavenly voyage. You
must let the heavenly Husbandman
husk off the mortality from the inn
mortality.
There ought to be great consolation
in this for all who have chronic all
ments, since the Lord is gradually and
more mildly taking away from YOU
that which binders your souls liberia
ton, doing gradually for you what for
many of US in robust health, perhaps.
He will do in one fell blow ut the last.
AT the close of every illness at the
close of every paroNysm, YOU ought to
say: THANK God, that Is all past now;
thank God, | will never have To suffer
that again; thank God am SO much
nearer the hour of liberation" You
will never suffer the same pain twice
You may have a new pain in an old
place, but never the same pain twice
The pain does its work and then dies.
Just so many plunges of the crowbar
To free the quarry stone for the build
ing. Just SO many strokes of the chiscl
to complete the statue. Just so many
pangs To separate the soul from the
body. You who have chronic ailments
and disorders are only paying in in
stallmcnts that which some of US will
have to- pay in one payment when we
pay the debt of nature. Thank God,
therefore, We who have chronic disor-
ders, that you have so much less suf-
feriug at the last. Thank God. that YOU
will have so much less To feel in the
way OF pain at the hands of the Ieav-
emily Hus ba ndman when the shock of
corn cometh in in his season"
Perhaps. now. this may be an answer
to question which | asked one Sab
bath morning, but did not answer:
Why is il many really good people have
so dreadfully to suffer? You often find
good man who is perfectly useless GO
ing around with easy digestion and
steady nerves and shining health and
his exit from the world is compare
lively painless. How do YOU explain
that? Well, / noticed in the huslling
time that the husking peg was thrust
into the corn and then there must be "A
stout pull before the swathing was
taken off the ear and the full.
round, healthy. luxuriant corn was de-
Infnan ~ la ~ hn s.Nl n,
there was corn that hardly seemed
worth huslling. We threw that into a
place all by itself and we called it
''nubbins."
Some of it was widowed. and some
of il was mice nibbled, and some of it
was great promise and no fulfllmcnt.
All cobs and no corn. Nubbins. After
the good corn had been driven mp to
the barn we came up with the corn
basket and we picked mp these nubbins
They were worth saving, but not worth
much. So. all around MS. there are
people who amount to nothing. They
devclope into no kind OF usefulness.
They are nibblcd on one side by the
world, and nibbled on the other side
by the devil, and widowed all over.
Great promise and no fulfllmeut. All
cObS una no corn. NubDln5.
They are worth saving. I 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 bc torn. and wounded. and
lacerated, and wrenched and husl<ed,
and at last go in among the very best
grain Of the granary, than 20 be pro-
nounced not worth husking at all?
Nubbins! In other words. want 70
say TO you people who have distress of
body, and distress i'm business, and dis
tress Of all sorts the Lord has not any
grudRe against you II is not deroga-
tory IL is complimentary. Whom the
Lord lOveth He chastencth," and IL 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 neighboring re-
union. By the great fireplace in the
winter. the fires roaring around the
glOrified back logs on the oid-fashioncd