St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-03
SOLACE IN ADVERSELY
encouragement and Consolation for
a. Those in Trouble.
Dr. Ta1mase Draws a Lesson from a
Process Familiar to the Farmer
-Trfumphant End of Mis-
fortunes,

copyright, 1902, by Louis klopsch, n. r.
Washington,
From process familiar to the farm
er DR.. Talmage draws lessons of con
ISOLATION and encouragement for PEG
pie in sorrow and adversely. The tex
is Isaiah 20: q, 2s: 'For the fitche.
are not thrashed with a thrashing in
strument, neither is cart whee
turned about upon the cummin, but
the titches are beaten out with stat
and the cummin with a rod. Bread
corn is bruised because he will not
ever be thrashing it."
Misfortune of various kinds come
upon various people, and in all times
the great need of 80 people out of a
hundred is solace. Look, then, to this
neglected allegory of my text.
There are three kinds of seed men
tloned-ftches, cummin and corn. OF
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 denied 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. 1.-THE
ftches are not thrashed with a thrash
ing instrument, neither is cart wheel
turned about upon the cummin, but the
fitches are beaten out with a staff and
the cummin with 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
go 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.
Wilberforce, the Christian emancipa-
tor, was in his day derisively called
doctor Cantweu.' 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
mallgned 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:
III ne 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
trlbulum. All who will live godly in
christ Jesus must suffer persecution
Besides that, there are the sicknesses
and the bankruptcies and the irrita-
lions and the disappointments which
are ever putting cup of aloes to your
up. Those wrinkles on your face are
aieroglyphics 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 ..
IRE the footprints showing where 1
swift trouble alighted.
My subject, in the first place;
caches us that it is no compliment
o US If we escape great trial. The .
itches and the cummin on one r
hrashing floor might look over to I
he corn on another thrashing floor I
md say: "Look at that poor, mis- |
rable. bruised corn! We have only I
'een a, little pounded, but that has {
'een almost destroyed" Well, the f
orn, if it had lips, would answer L
nd say: DO you know the reason h
on have not been as much pounded S
S ! have? 1t is because you are not +
+ so much worth as I am. If YOU r
7ere, you would be as severely run t
ver.' Yet there are men who SUM- b
ose they are the Lords favorites :
imply because their barns are full t
nd their bank account, is flush and S
here are no funerals in the house. b
may be because they are fitches W
nd cummin, while down at the end 81
the lane the poor widow may be f
ne Lords corn. You are but little II
ounded because you are but little II
orth and she bruised and ground II
ecause she is the best part of the p
arvest. The heft of the thrashinp r
achine is according to the value of S
lie grain. If you have not been II
uch thrashed in life, perhaps there o
not much to thrash! If you have a
ot been much shaken of trouble. b.
erhaps it is because there is going W
} be a very small yield When there d.
e plenty of blackberries, the gath. ii
'ers go out with large baskets but VI
hen the drought has almost con- tt
lmed the fruit, then a quart meas al
e will do as well. 1t took the II
snake on Pauls hand, and L
e pounding of him with stones I'M tn
he was taken up for dead and the ps
mining against him of prison gates al
I'd the Ephesian vociferation, and sc
e ankles skinned by the painful uE
ocks. and the laundering of the ir
exandrian corn ship, and the be-
aiding stroke of the Roman sheriff tn
bring Paul to his proper develop a
emit. 1t was not because Robert "f
offat and Lady Rachel Russell and nc
ederick Oberlin were worse than &C
her people that they had to suffer. I,
was because they were better, and so
d wanted to make them best. By tn
e carefulness of the thrashing you all
~ always conclude the value of tn
e grain. tr,