The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-29

may always conclude the value of
the grain.
Next, my text teaches up that God
proportions our trials to what we can
bear-the staff for the titches, the rod
for the cummin, the iron wheel for the
corn. Sometimes people in great
| trouble say: "Oh, | can't bear it'll" But
you did bear it. God would not have
sent it upon you if He had known that
| you could not bear it. You trembled
and you swooned, but you got through.
| God will not take from your eyes n
teal too many nor from your lungs n
sigh toodeepnorfrom yourtemples one
throb too sharp. The perplexities OF
| your earthly business have not in them
one tangle too intricate. You some
| times feel as if our world we're full of
bludgeons flying haphazard. Oh, no;
they are thrashing instruments that
God just suits to your case. There is
not a dollar of bad debts on your ledger
or a disappointment about goods that
you expected to go up, but that have
gone down, or a swindle of your bust
ness partner or a trick on the part of
those who are in the same kind of mer-
chandise that you are, but God intend
ed to overrule for your immortal help.
"Oh," you say, "there is no need OF talk
ing that way to me. don't like to be
cheated and outraged" Neither does
the corn like the corn thrasher, but
after it has been thrashed and win
moved it has a great deal better opin-
ion of winnowing mills and corn thrash
ers.
"Well," you say, "if I could choose
my troubles, l would be willing to be
troubled" All, my brother, then 1T
would not be trouble. You would
choose something that would not hurt,
and unless it hurt it does not get n
titled. Your trial perhaps may be child
l~essness. You are fond of children.
You say: "Why does God send children
to that other household where they are
unwelcome and are beaten and
banged about when would have taken
them in the arms of my Affection"
You say: "Any other trial but this
Your trial perhaps may be a d1sfigured
countenance or a face that is easily
caricatured, and you say: 81 could en-
dure anything if only I was good look
ing" And your trial perhaps is a vio-
lent temper, and you have to drive 1t
like six unbroken horses amid the gun
powder explosions of a great holiday,
and ever and anon it III away with
you. Your trial is the asthma. You
say: "If it were rheumatism, or neu-
ralgia, or erysipelas, but it is this asth-
ma, and it is such an exhausting thing
to breathe" Your trouble is a hus-
band, sharp, snappy and cross
the house and raising a small riot be-
cause a button is off. How could you
know the button is off? You trial is a
wife ever in contest with the servants,
and she is sloven. Though she was
very careful about her appearance in
your presence one, now she is careless,
because. she says, her fortune is made!
Your trial is a hard school lesson you
cannot learn, and you have bitten your
finger nails until they are a sight to be-
hold
Again, my subject teaches that God
keeps trials on us until we let go. The
former shouts "Whoa!" to his horses
as soon as the grain is dropped from
the stalk. The farmer comes with his
fork and losses up the straw, and he
sees the straw has let go the grain
and the grain is thoroughly thrashed.
So God. Shifting rod and turning wheel
both cease as soon as we let GO. We
hold on to this world, with its pleasures
and riches and emoluments, and our
knuckles are so firmly set that it seems
as il we could hold on forever. God
comes along with some thrashing
trouble and beats us loose. We start
ed under the Gelusion that this was a
great world. We learned out of our ge-
ography that it was so many thousand
miles in diameter and so many miles in
circumference. and we said: "Oh, my,
what a world" Trouble came in after
life, and this trouble sliced off one part
of the world, and it has got to be a
smaller world and in some estimations
a very insignificant world, and it is de.
, preciating all the time as a spiritual
property. Ten per cent. off, so per cent
off, and there are those who would not
+, give ten cents for this world-the en-
; tire world-as a soul possession.
: Another thing my text teaches us il
r that Christian sorrow is going to hav,
4 a sure terminus. Ny text says
Bread corn is bruised because he will
t not ever be thrashing it," Blessed b,
Il God for that! Pound away, o fail
Turn on, o wheel! Your work will
soon be done. "He will not ever b
9 t%hrashing it," Now, the Christian ha
almost as much use in the organ 70
RI the stop tremulant as he has for tn
4, trumpet, but after awhile he will pu
g the last dirge into the portfolio foi
Il ever. So much of us as is wheat wi
e be separated from so much as is chat
o and there will be no more need {
pounding. They never cry in Heave
Il because they have nothing to CT
about. There are no tears of berea.,
o. ment, for you shall have your FRIEND
# all round about you. There are Il
n tears of poverty because each one sit
it the Kings table and has his ow
% chariot of salvation and free access