Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-03-29

WASHINGTON. March %. - From {
irocess familiar to the farmer DR.. Tai
mage draws lessons Of consolation an(
encouragement for people In sorrow
and adversely. The text is Isaiah xviii
81. 2S: For the lltches are not thrash
ed with n thrashing instrument. nei
thcr Is a cart wheel turned about upor
the cummin. but the fitches are beaten
out with staff and the cummin with
n rod Broad corn Is bruised because
he will not ever be thrashing It."
Misfortunes Of various kinds come
upon various people. and in all times
the great need Of nlnety-nlne people
out Of hundred is solace. Look, then,
10 this neglected allegory Of my text.
There are three kinds Of seed men
tioned-ftches. cummin and corn. OF
the last we all know. But 1t may be
well to state that the fitches and the
cummin were small seeds, like the car
away or the chlckpea. When these
grains or herbs were to be thrashed,
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 thrashing In
strumcnt. neither is Il cart wheel turn
ed about upon the cummin. but the
titches 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 press
es upon our souls is that we all go
through some kind Of thrashlng 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 emancipator.
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 industrously ma
ligned 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, 'If he
had done nothing for anybody more
than he has done for me, he would
shine as the stars forever and ever"
fling at John Wesley. the father Of
Methodism. If such men could not es-
cape the maligning of the world, nei-
ther can you expect to get rid Of the
sharp. keen stroke of the tribulum.
All who will live godly in Christ Jesus
must suffer persecution. Besides that,
there are the sicknesses and the bank
ruptcies and the irritations and the dis
which are ever putting a
cup Of aloes to your lip. Those wrin-
kles on your face are hieroglyphics
which, if deciphered. would make out
a thrilling story Of trouble. The foot
step Of the rabbit is seen the next
on the snow. and on the white
hairs of tho aged are the footprints
where swift trouble alighted.
Troubles Come Unexpectedly.
Even amid the joys and hilarities OF
life trouble will sometimes break In.
AS when the people were assembled in
the Charlestown theater during the
Revolutionary war, and while they
were witnessing a farce and the audi
ence was In great graduation the guns
of an advancing army were heard and
the audience broke up In wild panic
and ran for their lives. so oftentimes
while you are seated amid the joys and |
festivities Of this world you hear the |
Of some great disaster. All |
The ftches and the cummin and the |
corn must come down on the thrashing |
1oor and be pounded
My subject. in the first place, teaches |
is that 1t Is no compliment to us II we |
escape great trial The fitches and the |
,ummin on one thrashing floor might |
oOk over to the corn on another thrash |
ng floor and say: Look at that poor. /
bruised cornl We have only [
)een little pounded. but that has been |
almost destroyed" Well, the corn, If
t had lips. would answer and say: DO [
you know the reason you have not been
Is much pounded as have? 1t is be-
,ause you are not of so much worth as
am If you were. you would be as I
everely run over" Yet there are men
Who suppose they are the Lords favor
tes simply because their barns are
uIl and their bank account Is flush
md there are no funerals In the house.
t may be because they are fitches and
ummn, while down at the end Of the
ane the poor widow may be the Lords
orn. You are but little pounded be-
ause you are but little worth and she
,ruised and ground because she Is the
)est part Of the harvest. The heft of
he thrashing machine is according to
he value of the grain. If you have not
,een much thrashed In life, perhaps
here is not much to thrash! If you
ave not been much shaken Of trouble.
,erhaps 1t is because there Is going to
'e a very small yield. When there are
'lenty Of blackberries, the gatherers go
ut with large baskets, but when the
Irought has almost consumed the fruit.
hen q quart measure will do as well.
t took the venomous snake on PauPs
land, and the pounding Of him with
tones until he was taken up for dead,
md the jamming against him Of prison
rates, and the Ephesian vociferation,
md the ankles skinned by the painful
tocks, and the foundering of the Alex
Indrlan corn ship, and the beheading
troke of the Roman sheriff to bring
Paul to his proper development. 1t
vas not because Robert Moffat and