Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-10-16

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awhile tho sun was high up and all the
frosts went out of the air, and hilarities
awakened the echoes and JOY from one
corn shock went up, Aha, ahal" and
was answered by JOY from another corn
shock, "Aha, ahal'' 1s'
So wo all realize that tho death Of
our friends is the nipping Of many ex-
pectations, tho freezing, the chilling,
the frostinS of many of our hopes. 1t IS
far from being south wind 1t comes
from the frigid north, and when they
go away from us we stand benumbed in
body and benumbed i'll mind and be-
numbed in soul We stand among our
dead neighbors, our dead families, and
we say, Twill we ever get over it?"
Yes, we will get over it amid tho shout
ings of heavenly reunion, and we will
look back to all these distresses of be-
rcavoment only rs tho temporary dis
tresses of huslling time. Weeping
may endure for q night. but JOY cometh
in the morning" Light and but for
u moment, y said the apostle as ho clap
ped his hands, light, and but for a
moment. . The chill of tho frosts fol-
lowed by the gladness that cometh in
like us a shock of corn cometh i'll i'll
his season. y
OF course tho .huslling time madc
rough work with the ear Of corn. Tho
huslling peg had to DO thrust in and the
hard thumb of the husker had to como
down on the swathing Of the ear, and
then there was II pull and ruthless
tearing and then n complete swapping
! off before the corn was free, and if the
husll could have spoken it would havo
said: why do you lacerate me? Why
do you wrench me?" All, my friends,
that is tho way God has arranged that
tho ear and tho 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
trcsses when you know that they are
only forwarding the SOULS liberation.
Every rheumatic pain is only q plunge
on the husl;ing peg. Every neuralgia
twinge is only twist by the husller.
There is gold i'll you that must como
out. Some way the shackle must DO
broken Some way the ship must BIO
launched for heavenly voyage You must
let tho heavenly Husbandman husk off
the mortality from the Immortality
Chronic Ailments.
There ought to be great consolation
in this for all who have chronic all
mants, since the Lord is gradually and
more mildly taking away from you
that which hinders your souls liberia
ton, doing gradually for you what for
many of us in robust health perhaps no
will do i'll one fell blow at the last. At
the close of every illness, at tho close
of every paroxysm, you ought to say,
"Thank God .l.ct is all past now, thank
God I will never have to su1TGr that
again, thank God l am so much nearer
the hour of liberation. F" You will new
er suffer the same pain twice. You may
have new pain in an old place, but
never the same pain twice.
The pain does its 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 pangs to separate the soul from
the body. You who have chronic all
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, yc 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 tho way of pain
at the hands Of the heavenly Husband
man when "tho shock of corn cometh
in in his season. y
Perhaps now this may be an answer
to question which Iaslled 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 a whole colony, while you
will find a 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 that?
Well, noticed i'll the huslling time
that the husking peg was thrust into
the corn and then there must be stout
pull before the swathing was taken off
of the ear and the full, round, healthy,
luxuriant corn was developed, while on
the other hand there was corn that
hardly seemed worth huslling. We
threw that into place all by itself and
we called it ''nrbbins. -
..Nubbins"
Some of it was widowed, 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 Tito no kind of usefulness They
are nibbled on one side by the world
and nibbled on the other side by the
devil and widowed all over. Great
promise and no fulfllment. All cobs
and no corn Nubbins!
They are worth saving. suppose
many of them will get to heaven, but
they arc 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-
er be torn, and wounded, and lacerated,
and wrenched, and husked, and at last
60 in amid the very best grain of the
granary, than to be pronounced not
worth hlisking at all? Nubbins! In 9th