The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-03-27
DIR, TAIMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS clscoUase 81 THE NOTED
DIVINE.
spbicct: The BENEFITS or AdverSitv-"e
Hust All Go Through Some Kind "t
Ihr.shinS Process For Our Own Goaa
Triumph After Misfort1ne-

Triumph After Misfortane-
WASHINGTON. d. C.-FrUn, 4 process
t,,,;i;,r to the farmer Dr. Tainage draws
iessons OF consolation and encouragement
fo,. ncople in soYrow and adversely Inc
tnvt is isaiah xviii, y, %: f% the
6Jrhcs are not thrashed with InraShhS
instrument, neither is 4 cart wheel tur,ie"
a5out upon the cummin, but the htches
AZ, ncaten out with stah and the cum
min with Il rod. Bread corn Is bruised oe-
cause he will not ever DC tnrashins II.
Misfortunes @! various amos come ui'ou
various peop.e, and ii al times the great
;,ccd OF ninety-nine people o2t OF a hun
d-ej is so,ace. Loo.i. thea. to tniS neg
lccted allcsory Ct ny teXI-
There are three kinds OF seed men
tioncG-itchcs. crmmtn end corn VI tne
Ia. VIC all know. Bat it may be well to
state that the titckes and the cummln were
small seeds ike the carawa: OF the chick
pea. When these grams or herbs were TO
he thrashcd they we're thrown OH thS
tioor, and the wo-kmen would come around
with seafi OF rod o. fail and Dcat 'em un7
Ill the seed would be separated, but when
tbc cora WAS TO te ta"ashed that was
throwa on the hooc, and the men would
fasten horses o. o:e.I 10 L cart with lro:a
dented wheels; that cart would be drawn
around the tkr&SainS floor, and 50 the
work would be accomplished. Different
kinds of th'ashiEG far different products
The ftches were rot thrashed with
thrashing instrument. neither Is a cart
wheel turned about upon the cuEnuriu- hut
the fit"hcs are beaten out WITH stan ara
the c2n,n.in with Il rod. Bread corn Is
bruised because he VII Eos ever be thrash
ing it.
The crca. thought that the text presses
uuoa our SOUS is ih2t We all so through
some kind OF t,rashinG process: The TACT
that YOU may nc dcVo-las yolr lie 10 ho::-
orah:e and noS,c U-rp9ses will not WIN yo;i
any escape. Wi!Se.fcrce, the CHRISTIAN
emaccipa,or. wat ir HS day der,siye.y
ca.lct! doctor Caitwel." Thomas Bah
inCtol NacGulcy, the advocate OF al that
w&s GOOD, loag before he became the most
CONSPICUOUS historian OF his day, was carl
ca.ured in one OF the Quar.cr,y reviews q
"Bab5etoasre MacaH.ay" Norman Me
Lcod. the great friend OF The Scotch poor
was industr.o;s.y ma.igncd in all Qh,t.Srs.
although on the G&y when he was carried
out 10 his burial workman stood and
looked AZ the funeral procession and sad.
III he had done nothing Ior anybody more
than he has done 70" lie, he woa!d shi!c
IS the si2rs iorey>r ald eNec. All ihc
small wits OF Loadon had their fling st
Ii suc,I men coIid not escape the naiign-
ing OF the word, neither can you expect
to ge: rid o. the sharp, keen stroke OF the
tribu.um. All who will live cody IL Christ
Jesus must suffer persecution. Besides
that, there ale the sickresses and the
hankruotcieS and the irritations and the
Gisapnoiniments which are ever putting
cup o: aloes to your lips. Those wrinkles
on Your face are hcirogiyphics which, If
l. Il Ak~.H Hkvpnr
story of trouble The foo.step of the rab-
bit is seen the next morning on the snow,
and on the white hairs OF the aged are the
footprints slowing where swift trouble
a,ighted.
! Even amid the Joys ard hilaritics OF life
trouble will sometimes break in. As when
the peoo!e were assembled in the Charles
( town theatre during the Revolutionary
/ War, and while thsy were witnessing
farce and the audience was in great gratu-
lat!on the guns CT an advancing army were
heard and tic audience broke up wild
panic and ran for their lives, so oftentimes
while you are seated amid the joys ard
festivities OF this world you hear the can
nonadc OF some great disaster. All the
ftchcs and the cummim ard The corn must
come down on the th:ashing floor and be
pounded
/ My subject, il tie first place, teaches us
/ TINT it is no compliment to US If We es-
! cape great trial. Tie ftches and the cum
min on one thIasbing floor might look
/ over to the corn on another thrashing floor
and say: 'Look at that poor, miserable,
bruised cora, We Lave only been a little
pounded: but that has been almost de-
! stroyed.' Well, the corn, if it had lips,
would answer and say: DO you know the
rca1on You have not been rs much pounded
! as l have? 1t is because you are not of so
much worth as l am If you were, you
would be as severely run over" Yet there
! arc men who suppose they are the Lords
! favorites simply because their barns are
full and their bank account is flush and
, there are no funerals in the house. 1t may
! be because they arc fitches and cumnin,
while down at the ED OF tie lane the poor
widow may be the Lords corn.
! You are bat little pounded because you
are but little worth and she bruised and
ground because she is the best part of the
: harvest. The hef5 of the thrashing ma
/ chine is according 10 the value of the
in lie, perhaps there Is not much to
thrash! If you have not been much shaken
OF trouble, perhaps it is because there Is
! going to be very small yield.
! When there are plenty OF blackberries,
/ the gatherers go out with large baskets.
hut VIII N the drought has almost consumed
the fruit, then Quart measure viii do as
wei.
It took the venomous snake OFT Paups
hand, and the pounding OF lir, with stones
unit! he was taken up fo- dead, and the
! :;amming against him of prison gates, and
! the Ephesian vociferation, and the ankles
! skinned by the painful stocks, and the
! laundering of the Alexandrian corn ship,
and the beheading stroke cf the Rornel!
sheriff to bring Paul to his proper develop
ment.
1t was not because Robert Moffat and
Lady Rachel Russell and Frederick Ober-