Milford chronicle., 1902-03-28
VOL XIV. NO. l3. WHOLE NUMBER, 1887.

WASHINGTON. March %. = From
process familiar to the farmer Dr. Tai
mage draws lessons Of consolation and
encouragement for people in sorrow
and adversely. The text is Isaiah xviii.
p, %: For the fitches are not thrash
ed with a thrashing instrument, nei
ther is a 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 II"
Misfortunes Of various kinds come
upon various people. and in all times
the great need of ninety-nine people
out of hundred is solace. Look. then.
to this neglected allegory of my text
There are three kinds of seed men.
tioned-fitches cummin and corn. or
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 I'M
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. The fitches
are not thrashed with a thrshing in
strument, neither is Il cart wheel turn
ed 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 press.
es upon our souls is that we all go
through some kind of thrashing process.
The fact that you may be devoting
your life to honorable and noble pur-
poses will not win you any escape.
WilberfOrce. the Christian emancipation
was in his day derisively called Doc
tor Cantwell." Thomas Darlington Ma.
caulay, the advocate of all that was
good. long before he became the most
conspicuous historian Of his day was
caricatured in one of the quarterly re
views as "Babbletongue Macaulay.'
Norman Mcleod. the great friend OF
the Scotch poor. was industriously ma
ligned in all quarters, although on the
day when he was carried out to his
burial workman stood and looked al
the funeral procession and said, IF hC
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 thei
fling at John Wesley, the father o
Methodism. If such men could not es
cape the maligning of the world, mel
Their can you expect to get rid of tn
sharp, keen stroke of the tribulum
All who will live godly in Christ Jesu
must suffer persecution. Besides that
there are the sicknesses and the bank
ruptcies and the irritations and the dis
appointments which are ever putting
cup of aloes to your lip. Those wrin
kles on your face are hieroglyphic
which, if deciphered, would make on
a thrilling story of trouble. The foo
step of the rabbit is seen the mex
morning on the snow. and on the whit
hairs of the aged are the footprint
showing where swift trouble alighted.
Troubles Come Unexpectedly.
Even amid the joys and hilarities {
life trouble will sometimes break il
AS when the people were assembled
the Charlestown theater during til
Revolutionary war, and while the
were witnessing a farce and the aud
ence was in great graduation the guI
of an advancing army were heard an
the audience broke up in wild pan
and ran for their lives, so Oftentim,
, while you are seated amid the joys al
festivities of this world you hear ii
cannonade of some great disaster. A
the fitches and the cummin and Il
corn must come down on the thrashiI
floor and be pounded.
/. My subject. in the first place. teach
US that it is no compliment to us if v
escape great trial The titches and Il
! cummin on one thrashing floor mig
) look over to the corn on another thras
Z ing floor and say: Look at that poo
y miserable. bruised corn! We have on
4 been a little pounded. but that has be-
almost destroyed" Well, the corn.
it had lips. would answer and say: 81
h., aof no
. as much pounded as | have? 1t is
cause you are not of so much worth
! am. If you were, you would be
. severely run over" Yet there are m
: who suppose they are the Lords fave
ties simply because their barns q
full and their bank account is flu
and there are no funerals in the hou
8 1t may be because they are fitches a
81 cummin, " lille down at the end of I
" lane the poor widow may be the LOr
M corn. You are but little pounded
~ ~ cause you are but little worth and S
les bruised and ground because she is
- 3: best part of the harvest. The heft
in the thrashing machine is according
egs the value of the grain, If you have
been much thrashed in life, perh;
~, ms there is not much to thrash! If
Ills have not been much shaken of trout
-, perhaps it is because there is going
in be a very small yield. When there
plenty of blackberries. the gatherers
IL out with large baskets. but when
. drought has almost consumed the fir
II then a quart measure will do as W
NJ 1t took the venomous snake on Pa
hand. and the pounding of him v
stones until he was taken up for de
and the jamming against him of pri
p gates, and the Ephesian vOciferat
r, and the ankles skinned by the pail
stocks, and the laundering of the A
eS' andrian corn ship, and the beheat
stroke of the Roman sheriff to b
Mai Paul to his proper development.
was not because Robert MOffat
Lady Rachel Russell and Frede
0berlin were worse than other pc
TO. that they had to suffer. 1t was
cause they were better, and God W
- ed to make them best. By the care
ness of the thrashing you may alv
conclude the value of the grain.
Helps Us Bear Burdens.
VAL Next, my text teaches us that
proportions our trials to what we
bear-the staff for the ftches, the
@L' for the cummin, the iron wheel fol-
corn. Sometimes people in great
BILE say. "Oh, can't bear itl' But
s did bear it. God would not have