Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-11

90 Ii; amid the very best grain of the
granary, than to be pronounced moi
worth husking at all? Nubbins! In 9th
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
1t is not derogatory, it is complimen-
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 III the time
of husking it was neighboring re-
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 sociality, but it 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
neighborhood reunion the memory of
which makes all the nerves of my body
tremb1e with emotion as the strings of
a harp when the fingers of player have
swept the chords.
The husking time was the time of
neighborhood reunion, and so heaven
will be just that. There they come upl
They slept in the old village church
yard. There they come up! They re-
clined amid the fountains and the
sculpture and the parterres of city
cemetery. There they come up They
went down when the ship foundered off
Cape Hatteras They come up from all
sides-from potter's field and out of
the solid masonry Of Westminster alb
hey. They come upl They come up!
All the hindrances to their better ma
ture husked off. All their physical all
ments husked off, All their spiritual
dependencies huslzed off. All their him
ORANGES to usefulness husked off. The
grain, the golden grain, the God fash
Toned grain, visible and conspicuous
Some of them on earth were such dis
agreeable Christians you could hardly
stand it in their presence. Now in
heaven they are so radiant you hardly
know them. The fact is, all their i'm
Projections have been husked off. They
did not mean on earth to be disagreed
bic. They meant we'll enough, but they
told you how sick you looked, and they
told you how many hard things they
had heard about you, and they told you
how often they had to stand up for you
in some battles until you wished almost
that they had been slain in some of the
battles. Good, pious, consecrated, well
disagreeables.
Husked OF.
Now in heaven all their offensive
ness has been husked off. Each one is as
happy as he can be. Every one he
meets as happy as he can be- Heaven
one great neighborhood reunion All
kings and queens, all songsters, all mil
lionaires, all banqueters. God, the Fa-
Their, with his children all around him.
No ''goodby" in all the air. No grave
cut in all the hills. River of crystal
rolling over bed of pearl, under arch of
into the sea of glass min
gled with fire. Stand at the gate of the
granary and see the grain come in-out
Of the frosts into the sunshine, out of
the darkness into the light, out Of the
tearing, and the ripping, and the twist
ing, and the wrenching, and the lacerat-
ing, and the husking time of earth into
5he wide open door of the Kings gran
ary, like as shock of corn cometh in
in his season.
Yes, heaven a great sociable, with
Joy like the joy of the husking time.
No one there feeling so big he declines
TO speak to some one who is not SO
large. Archangel willing to listen to
smallest cherub. No boiling Of the door
IF caste at one heavenly mansion to
keep out the citizen of a smaller man
sion. No clique in one corner whisper
ng about clique in another corner
David taking none of the airs of a giant |
Killer. Joshua making no one halt I'M
IL he passes because he made the sun |
md moon halt Paul making no assump- |
ions over the most ordinary preacher
If righteousness Naaman, captain of
he Syrian host, no more honored than
he captive maid who told him where |
le could get a good doctor. Oh, my
oul, what a country! The humblest
nan king. The poorest woman a
queen. The meanest house a palace
The shortest lifetime eternity. And |
What is more strange about it all is, we
may all get there. mot I, says some |
one standing back under the galleries
Yes, you. "Not I, 2" says some one who
las not been in church in Is years be-
ore. Yes, you. ''Not l, says some one
Who has been for 80 years filling up his
ife with all kinds of wickedness. Yes,
-ou.