Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-10-20
TALMAGE's SERMON.
"As a Shock of Corn Coneth in in
His Season"
stripped OF Their Earthly Jmperfections
and Singing Songs of Praise to Almighty
s'od i'm the Eternal City-~ris Hask-
ing Time of NeiE hboriy Reunion.

Or. Talmage's text Sunday was: Job
,. 70: "As a Shock of Corn Cometh in
In His season
Going at the rate of 40 miles an hour
n few days ago, caught this sermon.
il you have recently been in the fields
OF Pennsylvania, or New Jersey, or
New York, or New England. or any of
the country districts. YOU know that
the corn is nearly all cut. The sharp
knife struck through the stalks and
left them all along the fields until "A
man came with bundle of straw and
twisted few of these wisps of straw
into band. and then gathering up
a. much of the corn as he could com
pass with his arms, he bound il with
this wisp of straw. and then stood il in
the field in what is called shock.
II is estimated that there are now
several billion bushels of corn stand
ing in the shocks 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 husling apron, and they
viii take the husking peg, which is "A
piece of iron with loop fastened To
the hand and with il unshcath the
corn from the huslS and toss il into the
golden heap. Then the wagons will
come along and take it To the corn crib
How vividly to all those of US who
were born in the country comes the
remembrance of huslSing time. We
waited for it as for gala day of the
year. 1t was called 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
gieeful company. The frosts which
had silvered everything during the
nigh: began to melt off 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 bod
les 10 keep up warmth of circulation.
Roaring mirth greeted the late farm
er as he crawled over the fence Joke
and repartee and rustic salutation
abounded. All ready. now, The men
take hold of the shock of corn and hurl
II PROSTATE, while the moles and mice
which have secretcd themselves there
for warmth attempt escape. The wisp
of straw is unwound from the corn
FhpNh- anu liiN NNdAhN- ntdNN Win Int
wealth of grain, are rolled into two
bundles, between which the huslIer sits
down The husking peg is thrust in
unit II strikes the corn, and then the
fingers rip off the sheathing of the ear,
ana there is crack as the root of the
corn is snapped off from the huslt, and
the grain, disimprisoned, is hurled up
into the sunlight.
air tonic tho l.
very eXhilarating. the company is so
blithe, that some shout. and some
sing, and some banter, and some tease
a neighbor for n romantic ride along
the edge of a woods in an eventide. in
carriage that holds but two, and some
prOphcsy as to the number of bushels
to the field, and others go into competi-
ton as to which shall rifle the most
corn shocks before shutdown.
After while the dinner horn sounds
from the farm house. and the table is
surrounded by group of jolly and
hungry men. From all the pantries
and the cellars and the perches of fowl
ON the place the richest dainties come,
and there is carnival and neighborhood
reunion, and 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
beer reaped like as shock of corn
corneth in in his season
There is "a difference of opinion as
TO whether the Orientals knew any
thing about the corn as il stands in
our Helds; but recent discoveries have
fourc 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
have come up Just such Indian maize
as we raise in New York and Ohio: so
] ana right when ] say that my text
may refer TO a shock of corn just as
you and i bound IL. just as YOU and |
threw it, just as you and / husSed il.
There may come some practical and
uscfui and comforting lessons 20 all our
souls while we think of coming in at
last like a shock Of corn coming in in
his season.
IL is high time that the King of Ter
rors were thrown out Of the Christian
vocabulary. A vast multitude Of peo-
pie talk of death as though IT, were the
disas Ger of disasters instead Of being
10 the good man the blessing of bless
ings. 1t is moving out OF "A cold vesti-
bule INTO a warm temple IL is migrat-
ing INTO groves of redolence and per-
Pctual fruitage. 1t is a change from
bleak March to roseate June. IL is "A
change of manacles for garlands.
H. is the transmitting of the iron
handouts of earthly incarceration
into the diamond wristlets OF
bridal party; or, 20 use the sugges-
ton Of my text. IL is only huskinR
time IL is the tearing of OF the rough
sheath of the body that the bright and
tho beautiful soul may go free. Com
ing in like shock OF corn cometh in
in his season" Christ broke up q fu-
neral procession at the gate Of Main by
making a resurrection day for a young
man and his mother. And would that
! could break mp your sadnesses, and
halls The long funeral professions OF the
worlds grief by some cheering and
cheerful yicuy Of the last transition