The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-29
SOLACE1NADVERSITY
ENCOURAGEMENT and Consolation for
Those in Trouble.
Dr. TaImage Draws a Lesson from q
Process Familiar to n Farmer
-Triumphant End Of Mis-
fortunes.

EOl1t1On dDu
pie in sorrow and adversely. Inc tex
is Isaiah 2S: 81, rs: For the htches
are not thrashed with a thrashing IN
strument, neither is a cart wheei
turned about upon the cummln, put
the ftches are beaten out with a stan
and the cummin with a rod. Bread
corn is bruised because he will not
ever be thrashing it,"
Misfortune of various kinds come
upon various people, and in all times
the great need of 90 people out OF a
hundred is solace. Look, then, to TINS
neglected allegory of my text
There are three kinds of seed men
tioned-fitches, cummin and corn. VI
the last we all know. But it may be
well to state that the fitches and the
cummin were small seeds, like the I
away or the chickpea. When these
grains or herbs were to be thrasseo'
they were thrown on the floor, and the
workmen would come aroun win
staff or rod or fail and beat them un-
til the seed would be separated, but
when the corn was to be thrashed that
was thrown on the floor, and the men
would fasten horses or oxen to a cart
with iron dented wheels; that cart
would be drawn around the thrashing
floor. and so the work would be ac-
complished. Different kinds of thrash
ing for different products. line
fltches are not thrashed with a thrash
ing instrument, neither is a cart wheel
$780, l~.,4 - h anr,r NJ min. h1f m
fitches are beaten out with a stan
the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is
bruised because he will not ever be
thrashing it."
The great thought that the text
presses upon our souls is that we all
go through some kind of t~hrashing
process. The fact that you may be de-
voting your life to honorable and noble
purposes will not win you any escape.
Wilherforce, the Christian %emancipa-
tor, was in his day derisively called
"Doctor Cantwell." Thomas Babbing-
ton Macaulay, the advocate of all that
was good. long before he became the
most conspicuous historian of his day
was caricatured in one of the quarter
kN TtNltNS as DdDDltlOuSu c hldOdu
lay" Norman Mcleod, the great friend
of the Scotch poor, was industriously
maligned in all quarters, although on
the day when he was carried out to
his burial a workman stood and looked
at the funeral procession and said:
IF he had done nothing for anybody
more than he has done for me, he
or,,,1l .As,o ~ A. .4a- f~-a.1- 49,
ever" All the small wits of London
had their fling at John Wesley, the
father of Methodism. If such men
could not escape the maligning of the
world, neither can you expect to get
rid of the sharp, keen stroke of the
tribulum. All who will live godly in
Christ Jesus must suffer persecution
Besides that, there are the sicknesses
and the bankruptcies and the irrita,
tions and the disappointments which
are ever putting a cup of aloes to your
lip. Those wrinkles on your lace are
hieroglyphics which, if deciphered
would make out a thrilling story Of
trouble. The footstep of the rabbit
is seen the next morning on the snow
and on the white hairs of the age,
are the footprints showing wher,
swift trouble alighted.
My subject, in the first place
teaches us that it is no complimen
to us If we escape great trial. Tn,
fitches and the cummin on on
thrashing floor might look over t.
the corn on another thrashing foo
and say: Look at that poor. mis-
cradle, bruised corn! We have onl
been a little pounded, but that ha
been almost destroyed" Well. tn
corn, if it had lips, would answe
and say: "Do you know the reaso
you have not been as much pounde
as | have? 1t is because you are nc
of so much worth as | am. If yo
we're, you would be as severely ru
over" Yet there are men who SUI
pose they are the Lords favorits
simply because their barns are fu
and their bank accounts is flush al
there are no funerals in the hous
1t may be because they are fitch,
and cummin, while down at the er
of the lane the poor widow may
the Lords corn. You are but lit
pounded because you are but lit
worth and she bruised and grour
because she is the best part of Il
harvest. The heft of the thrashir
machine is according to the value
the grain. II you have not be,
much thrashed in life, perhaps the
is not much to thrash! If you ha
not been much shaken of troubI
perhaps it is because there is goil
to be a very small yield. When the
are plenty of blackberries, the gat
erers go out with large baskets, b
when the drought has almost CO
sumed the fruit, then a quart mea
ure will do as well. 1t took t
venomous snake on Paul's hand, al
the pounding of him with stones u
til he was taken up for dead, and t
jamming against him of prison gat,
and the Ephesian vociferation, a
the ankles skinned by the paint
stocks, and the laundering of I
A~lexandrian corr ship, and the
heading stroke of the Roman sher
TO bring paul TO his DroDer deVe1o