The Canton times., 1902-04-04
SOLACE In ADVERSELY.
Encouragement and Consolation for
Those in Trouble.
Dr. Talmage Draws n Lesson from a
Process Familiar to the Farmer
triumphant End of Mis-
fortunes.
JCopyright, 1902. by Louis Klopsch. N. II
Washington. h..

ISOLATION and encouragement for pee
pie in sorrow and adversely. The tex
is Isaiah 2S: 81, 2S: "For the fitche
are not thrashed with thrashing in
strument, neither is cart whee
turned about upon the cummin, bu
the fitches are beaten out with stat
and the cummin with rod. Breat
corn is bruised because he will no
ever be thrashing it"
Misfortune of various kinds come
upon various people, and in all times
the great need of 80 people out OF
hundred is solace. Look, then, to this
neglected allegory of my text. IA
There are three kinds of seed men
tioncd-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 car
away or the chickpea. When these
grains or herbs were to be thrashed,
they were thrown on the floor, and the
workmen would come around with
staff or rod or fail and beat them un-
til the seed would be separated, but
was thrown on the floor, and the men
would fasten horses or oxen to 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. "The
fitches are not thrashed with thrash
ing instrument, neither is cart wheel
turned about upon the cummin, but the
fitches are beaten out with staff and
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
60 through some kind of thrashing
process. The fact that you may be de-
HOting your life to honorable and noble
purposes will not win you any escape.
Wiiberforce, 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
iy reviews as "Babbletongue Macau-
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 workman stood and looked
at the funeral procession and said:
IL he had done nothing for anybody |
more than he has done for me, he |
would shine as the stars forever and |
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 cup of aloes to your
lip. Those wrinkles on your face are
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 aged
are the footprints showing where
swift trouble alighted.
My subject, in the first place.
teaches us that it is no compliment
TO us If we escape great trial. The
itches and the cummin on one
thrashing floor might look over to
'he corn on another thrashinp floor
ind say: "'Look at that poor. mis-
srable, bruised corn! We have only
been little pounded, but that has
'een almost destroyed" Well, the
'orn, If it had lips, would answer
ind say: "Do you know the reason
rou have not been as much pounded
vs. 1 have? 1t is because you are not
# so much worth as 1 am. If Won
we're. you would be as severely run
'ver." Yet there are men who SUM-
lose they are the Lords fayorites
imply because their barns are full
nd their bank accounts is flush and
here are no funerals in the bouse
may be because they are ftches
nd cummin, while down at the end
t the lane the poor widow NAV be
he Lords corn. You are but little 1
ounded because you are but little
'orth and she bruised and ground
ecause she is the best part of the
aryest. The heft of the thrashino
lachine is according to the value of
ne grain. If you have not been
luch thrashed in life, perhaps there |
not much to thrashl If you have &
OF been much shaken of trouble. I
erhaps it is because there is going {
) oe a very small yield. When there /
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