Connecticut western news., 1897-10-14

ook back to all these distresses of be- .eavement only as the temporary dis ,resses of husking time. Weeping may endure for night, but joy cometh In the morning." "Light, and but for 3 moment" said the apostle as he clap ped his hands, Tight, and but for " The chill of the frosts fol lowed by the gladness that cometh in Hike as 8 shock of corn cometh ill in his season.
 Of course the husking time made rough work with the ear of corn. The husking peg had to be thrust in and the hard thumb of the husker had to come down on the swathing of the ear, and then there was pull and ruthless tearing and then complete snapping off before the corn was free and if the husk could have spoken it would have said: "Why do you lacerate me? Why do you wrench me?" An, my friends, that is the way God 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 a plunge on the husking peg. Every neuralgia twinge is only twist by the husker. There is gold in you that must come out. Some way the shaokle must be broken. Some way the ship must be launched for heavenly voyage You must let the heavenly Husbandman husk oil the mortality from the immortality.
 Chronic Ailments.
 There ought to be great consolation in this for all who have chronic ail- ments, since the Lord is gradually and more mildly taking away from you that which flinders your souls libera- tion, doing gradually for you what for many of us in robust health perhaps he will do in one fell blow at the last. At the close of every illness, at the close of every paroxysm, you ought to say, "Thank God that is all past now, thank God will never have to suffer that again, thank God I am so much nearer the hour of liberation You will nev CT suffer the same pain twice. You may have new pain in an old place, but never the same pain twice
 The pain does it's work and then it dies. Just so many plunges of the crow bar to free the quarry stone for the building. Just so many strokes of the chisel to complete the statue Just so many bangs to separate the soul from the body. You who have chronic ail- ments and disorders are only paying in installments that which some of us will have to pay in one payment when we pay the debt of nature. Thank God, therefore, ye who have chronic disorders, that you have so much less suffering at the last. Thank God that you will have so much less to feel in the way of pain at the hands of the heavenly Husband man when "the shock of corn cometh in in his season.
 Perhaps now this may be an answer to question which asked one Sabbath morning, but did not answer, Why is it that so many really good people have so dreadfully to suffer? You often find good man with enough pains and aches and distresses, you would think, to discipline whole colony, while you will find man who is perfectly useless going around with easy digestion and steady nerves and shining health, and his exit from the world is comparative ly painless. How do you explain thati Well, noticed in the husking time that the husking peg was thrust into the corn and then there must be a stout pull before the swathing was taken off ,q 4,,11 luxuriant corn was developed, while on the other hand there was corn that hardly seemed worth husking. We threw that into place all by itself and we called it "nubbins !"
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 Some of it was mildewed, and some of it was mice nibbled, and some of it was great promise and no fulfillment. All cobs and no corn. Nubbinsl After the good corn had been driven up to 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 around us there are peo- pie who amount to nothing. They de- velop into no kind of usefulness. They are nibbled on one side by the world and nibbled on the other side by the devil and mildewed all over. Great promise and no fulfllment All cobs and no corn. Nubbinsl
 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 king dom of our God. Who would not rather have the pains of this life, the misfor- tunes of this life-who would not rath. CT be torn, and wounded, and lacerated, and wrenched, and husked, and at last go in amid the very best grain of the granary, than to be pronounced not worth husking at all? Nubbinsl In oth- er 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. It is not derogatory, it is compliment tary. "Whom the Lord loveth he chas- teneth," and it is proof positive that there is something valuable in you or the Lord would not have husked you.
 You remember also that in the time OA hu6hlAS At WOE I0- union. By the great fireplace in the winter, the fires roaring around the glorified backlogs on an old fashioned hearth, of which the modern stoves and registers are only the degenerate de- scendants, the farmers used to gather and spend the evening, and there would be much sooiality, but 1t 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 the meadow, and they came from beyond the brook, and they came from regions two and three miles around. Good spirit reigned su- preme, and there were great handshak- ings, and there was carnival, and there was the recital of the brightest expert. ences in all their lives, and there was 8 neighborhood reunion the memory ot which makes all the nerves of my body tremble with emotion as the strings o1 a harp when the fingers of a player have swept the chords.
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