The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-11
TALMAGE CAUGHT A SERMON
WHEN GOING At THE RATE OF
FORTY MILES AN HOUR.

and the Frost on the HuskS ana
Ground and He Draws an Interest,"
ing Lesson From the Facts He
Presents.
Washington, Oct. 10.-This sermon by
Dr. Talmage is peculiarly seasonaoie at
the present time when the teem.ns har-
vests all over The land are awaiting the
husbandman. His text Is JOB 8. Is, As
q shock OF corn cometh in in his season
Gong at the rate of forty miles the hour
a few DAYS ago l caught this sermon. If
you have recently been in the fields OF
Pennsylvania. or New Jersey, or New
York, or New England, or any Of the coun-
Try districts. you know that the corn Is
nearly all cut The sharp knife struck
through the stalks and ,eft them adj along
the fields until man came with bundle
of straw and twisted few OF these wizps
Of straw into band. and then gathering
up as much Of the corn as he could com
pass with his arms. me bound it with this
Tsp Of straw. and thln stood it in the
field in what is called shock.
II is estimated that there are now sew
era billion bushels Of corn standing in
the shock, waiting TO be husked. Some
time during the latter part Of next month.
the farmers viii gather, one day on one
farm another day on another farm, and
they viii put on their rough huskug
apron, and they viii take the huskiug peg,
which is a piece of iron with d leather
loop fastened to the hand, ana with it I'M
sheath the corn from the husk and toss il
into the golden heap. Then the wagons
VIII come along and take it to the corn
crib.
How wildly to all those Of US who were
born in the country comes The remem-
brance Of husking time. We waited for
it as for a gala day of the year It 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 glee-
full company The frosts which had sill
vered everything during the night, be
gan to melt off of the top of the corn
shocks. While the farmers were waiting
for others, they stood blowing their breath
through their fingers or threshing their
arms around their body to keep up warmth
of circulation.
Roaring mirth greeted the late farmer
es he crawled over the fence. Joke and
Tepartee and rustic salutation abouuded.
All ready now The men take hold the
shock of corn and hurl il PROSTATE, while
the moles and mice which have secreted
themselves there for warmth attempt es-
cape 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 husking peg is thrust in
until it strikes the corn, and then the fin
gers rip off the sheathing of the ear, and
there is a crack as the root of the corn
is snapped off from the husk. and the
grain. disimprisoned, is hurled up into the
sunlight.
The air is so tonic, the work is so very
exhilarating, the company is 50 blthe, that
some laugh, and some shout 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 a
carriage that holds but two, ana some pro-
phesy as to the number of bushels 10 the
field, and others go into competition as to
which shall rifle the most corn shocks be-
fore shutdown.
After while the dinner horn sounds
from the farmhouse, and the table is sur
rounded by a group Of jolly and hungry
men. From all the pantries and the cellars
and perches of fowl on the place the
richest dainties come. and there is carnival
and neighborhood reunion, and a scene
which fills our memory, part with smiles
but more with tears as we remember that
the farm belongs now to other owners,
and other hands gather in the fields. and
many of those who mingled in that merry
husking scene have themselves been
reaped like as a shock of corn cometh
in in his season.
There is a difference of opinion as to
whether the Orientals knew anything
oh IN, ell
but recent discoveries have found out
that the Hebrew knew all about Indian
maize, for there have been grains Of the
corn picked up out of ancient crypts and
exhumed from hiding places where they
were put down many centuries ago. and
they have been planted in our time and
nave come up just such Indian maize as
we raise In New York and Ohio; so / am
right when I say that my text may refer
20 a shock Of corn just as you and
bound it, just as you and / threw it, Just
as you and ! husked II. There may come
some practical and useful and comforting
lessons TO all our souls, while we think Of
coming in at last like a shock Of corn
coming in in his season"
It Is high time that the King of Terrors
were thrown out Of the Christian vocab-
ulary A vast multitude of people talk of
death as though il were the disaster OF
disasters instead of being to good man
out Of cold vestbule into a warm tenn
pie. 1t is migrating into groves OF redo
lence and perpetual fruitage. II is a
Change from bleak March 10 roseate June.
It Is change Of manacles for garlands.
II Is the transmitting Of the iron handouts
Of earthly Incarceration into the diamond
ed WHISTLES Of a bridal party; or TO use
the suggestion of my text, it is only husk-
ing time. 1t is the tearing off of the rough
sheath Of the body that the bright and
the beautiful soul may go free. Coming
in like a shock of corn cometh in in his
season" Christ broke up a funeral pro-
cession al the gate Of Main by making a
resurrection day for a young man and his
mother And l would that l could break
Up your saduesses and halt the long fu.
neral procession Of the worlds grief BY
some cheering and cheerful view of thl
last transition.
We all know that husi1ing time was a
time Of frost. Frost on the fence. Fros
on the stubble. Frost on the ground
Frost on the bare branches Of the trees
Frost in the air. Frost on the hands OF
the huskers. You remember we used l.
hide behind the coru-stacks so as to keor
Oft the wind, but stil you remember how
fnivering was the body and how painful
the aboaL bye