Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-03-26
SOLACE IN ADVERSELY
Encouragement and Consolation for
Those in Trouble.
DR.. TalmREe Draws Lesson from N
Process Familiar to the Farmer
-Triumphant End OF Mis-
fortunes.
copyright. 1852. by Louis Klopsch. n. VI

From n process l0lnllldT 10 the ldIiu-
err DR.. Talmagc draws lessons of con
ISOLATION aud encouragement for peo-
pie in sorrow and adversely. The text
is Isaiah IS: 27, rs: For the fitches
are not thrashcd with a thrashing in
strument, neither is IA cart wheel
turned about upon the cummin, but
the fitchcs are beaten out with 4 staff
and the cummin with rod. Bread
corn is bruised because he will not
ever be thrashing 1T"
Misfortune OF various kinds come
upon various people. and in all times
the great need of 30 people out of
hundred is solacc. Look, then, TO this
neglected allegory of my text.
There are three kinds of seed men
tioned-fitchcs. cummin and corn. OF
the last we all know. But it may be
well to state that the ftches and the
cuInmin 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
worllmcn would come around with
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 fastcn horses or oxen to cart
with iron denied wheels; that cart
would he drawn around the thrashing
floor, and so the work would be ac-
complished. Different kinds of thrash
ing for different products. The
titchcs are not thrashed with thrash
ing instrument, neither is cart wheel
turned "a 4 l,a min Inn h,
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
voting your life to honorable and noble
purposes will not win you any escape
Wherefore, 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
ly 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 n workman stood and looked
at the funeral procession and said:
III 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
mad 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
trlbulum. All who will live godIy in
Christ Jesus must suffer persecution
BESIDES that, there are the sicknesses
and the bankruptcies and the irrita-
tons and the disappointments which
are ever putting cup of aloes to your
up those wrinkles on your face are
Hler"glyphics which, if deciphered.
would make out 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 nloce
teaches us that it is no compliment
to us if we escape great trial. The
htches and the cummin on ono
thrashing floor might look over to
the corn on another thrashinp floor
and say: Look at that poor. mis-
cradle, bruised corn! We have only
been a little poUpded, but that has
been almost destroyed" Well the
corn, If II had lips would answer
and say: do you know the reason
you nave not been as much pounded
as AaveE II Is because YOU are not
OF so much worth as / am. If Won
were, you would be as severely ru,,
over Yet there are men who eu,.
pose they are the Lords fayoritee
simply because their barns are nm
ana their bank accounts is flush and
there are no funerals i'm the house
IL may he because they are ftchoe
and cummin. while down at the end
OF the lane the poor widow mnv be
the Lords corn. You are but it'll
pounded because YOU arc but Iit1e
worth and She bruised and oro,,,d
because she is the best mart 81 a..
harvest. The hoft Of the tbraeIir,,,
machine is according TO the va1uc ~
the grain. II you have not bccn
much thrashed in life, perhaps there
Is not much 10 thrash, If YOU b,v.
not been much shaken Of tr,ui.e
perhaps ~ is because there is ooi,,e,
60 be very small yield Whcu thor.
are plenty of blackbcrrice the NTH.
ercrs go out with large baskets. I,ii
when the drought has almost con.
sumcd the fruit then quart meas.
ure VIII do as we'll ~ took tbc
Nenomous snake ON Tam's hand and
the pounding OF him with stones am
I'll nc was taken mp for dead and the
jamming against him Of prison gates.
and the Ephcsian vocifcration. md
the ankles skinned by the painful
ftOcIs. and the fnnnderino, ~ 4hn