The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15
THE CORN HARVEST.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE DISCUSSES
SEASONABLE TOPIC.


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copyright, 1897, by American Press Asst
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WASHINGTON, Oct 10.-This sermo
by DIR. Talmage is peculiarly seasonabl
at the present time, when the teemin
harvests all over the land are awaitin
the husbandman. His text is Job V, 2e
AS a shock of corn cometh in in hi
season. -
Going at the rate of 40 miles tn
hour few days ago, caught this ser
mon. Ii you have recently been in tn
fields Of Pennsylvania or New Jersey O
New York or New England or any O
the country districts, you know that tn,
corn is nearly all cut. The sharp knife
struck through the stalks and left then
all along the fields until man came
with bundle of straw and twisted g
few of these wisps of straw into a band
and then, gathering up as much of the
corn as he could compass with his arms,
he bound it with this wisp of straw and
then stood it in the field in what is call
ed shock
1t is estimated that there are now
several billion bushels of corn standing
IN the shock, waiting to be husked.
Some time during the latter part of next
month the farmers will gather one day
on one farm, another day on another
farm, and they will put on their rough
husking apron, and they will take the
husking peg, which is a piece of iron
with leather loop fastened to the
hand, and with it nnsheath the corn
from the husk and toss it into the gold
en- heap. Then the wagons will come
along and take it to the corncrib.
How wildly to all those of us who
were born in the country comes the re-
membrance of husking time We waited
for it as for gala day of the year. 1t
was called a frolic. The trees having
for the most part shed their foliage, the
farmers waded through the fallen leaves
and came through the keen morning air
to the gleeful company. The frosts,
which had silvered everything during
the night, began to melt off of the top !
of the corn shocks. While the farmers
were waiting for others they stood blow
ing their breath through their fingers or
thrashing their arms around their bodies
TO keep up warmth of circulation
The Cornfeld.
J Roaring mirth greeted the late farmer
as he crawled over the fence. Joke and
repartee and rustic salutation abounded
All ready nowl The men take hold the
shock of corn and hurl it PROSTATE,
while the moles and mice which have
Gap1.pfn1 fhn1o fn. 1, |
attempt escape. The withe of straw is
unwound from the corn shock, and the
stalks, heavy with the wealth of grain,
are rolled into two bundles, between
which the husker sits down The husk-
ing peg is thrust in until it strikes the
corn, and then the fingers rip off the
sheathing of the ear, and there is
crack as the root of the corn is snapped
off from the husk, and the grain, disim-
prisoned, is hurled up into the sunlight.
The air is SO tonic, the work is SO
very exhisarating the company is so
blithe, that some laugh and some shout I
and some sing and some banter and
some tease a neighbor for a romantic
ride along the edge of the woods in an
eventide in carriage that holds but {
two and some prophesy as to the num-
Der of bushels to the field, and others go
into competition as to which shall rife c
the most corn shocks before shutdown. I
After awhile the dinner horn sounds I
from the farmhouse, and the table is 1
surrounded by group of jolly and l
hungry men. From all the pantries and
the cellars and the perches of fowl on !
the place the richest dainties come, and I
there are carnival and neighborhood re- I
union and scene which fills our mem I
DRY, part with smiles, but more with s
tears, as we remember that the farm be- d
longs now to other owners, and other \
hands gather IN the fields and many of L
those who mingled in that merry husk-
ing scene have themselves been reaped q
like as shock of corn cometh in in q
his season. - Il
There is a difference Of opinion as to s.
the orientals knew anything
about the corn as it stands in our fields, d
but recent discoveries have found out u
that the Hebrew knew all about Indian v
maize, for there have been grains of the 4
corn picked up out of ancient crypts and s.
exhumed from hiding places where q
=,
ago, and they have been planted i'll our ',
time and have come up just such Indi- =,
an maize as we raise in New York and tl
Chic. so | am right when | say that my p
text may refer to a shock of corn Just %
as you and bound it, just as you and |,
threw it, just as you and husked it, u
There may come some practical and II
nseful and comforting lessons to all our u
souls while we think of coming in at W
last like a shock Of corn coming in in
his season -
1t is high time that the king of ter Of
rors were thrown out of the Christian W
A vast multitude of people A
ak of death as though it were the dis th
ister of disasters instead of being to a bs
good man the blessing of blessings 1t ba
s moving out of cold vestibule into a II
warm temple. 1t is migrating into m
groves of redolence and perpetual fruit pl
Ige. 1t is change from bleak March to We
oseate June. 1t is change of mana ar