The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-04-24
SOLACE IN ADVERSELY
Encouragement and Consolation for
Those in Trouble.
DR.. Talmage Draws u Lesson from q
Process Familiar to the Farmer
triumphant End of Mis-
fortunes.

copyright. 1902, by Louis Klopsch. N. VI
Washington.
From process familiar to the farm
er DR.. Talmage draws lessons of con-
ISOLATION and encouragement for peo-
pie in sorrow and adversely. The text
is Isaiah 2S: 27, %: For the fitches
are not thrashed with thrashing in
strument, neither is 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 it,"
Misfortune of various kinds come
upon various people, and in all times
the great need of 90 people cut OF
hundred is solace. Look, then, to this
neglected allegory of my text.
There are three kinds of seed men
ton ned-fitches, 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 un-
til the seed would be separated, but
when the corn was to be thrashed that
would fasten horses or oxen to cart
with iron dented wheels; that cart
would be drawn around the thrashing
hoor, and so the work would be ac-
complished. Different kinds of thrash
ing for different products. "The
fitches are not thrashed with thrash
ing instrument, neither is a cart wheel
turned about upon thecummin, 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 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
1y reviews as "Babbletongue Macau-
lay" Norman Mcleod, the great friend
of the Scotch poor, was industriously
M q ON in ,-{a ,1&
the day when he was carried out to
his burial 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" 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
tribulum. All who will live godly in
Christ Jesus must suffer persecution.
Besides that, there are the sicknesses
and the bankruptcies and the irrita-
tions and the disappointments which
are ever putting cup of aloes to your
lip. Those wrinkles on your face are
hieroglyphics 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 place,
teaches us that it is no compliment
to us if we escape great trial. The
htches and the cummin on one
thrashing floor might look over to
the corn on another thrashing floor
and say: "Look at that poor, mis-
erable, bruised corn! We have only
been little pounded, but that has
been almost destroyed" Well, the
corn, if it had lips, would answer
and say: "Do you know the reason
you have not been as much pounded
as I have? 1t is because you are not
of so much worth as I am. If Won
were, you would be as severely run
over" Yet there are men who sup-
pooC thCy dIC tAC LOIu IdFOTlCoS
simply because their barns are full
and their bank accounts is flush and
there are no funerals in the house.
It may be because they are fitches
and cummin, while down at the end
of the lane the poor widow may be
the Lords corn. You are but little
pounded because you are but little
worth and she bruised and ground
because she is the best part of the
harvest. The heft of the thrashine
machine is according to the value of
the grain. If you have not been
much thrashed in life, perhaps there
is not much to thrash! If you have
not been much shaken of trouble
perhaps it is because there is going
to be very small yield. When there
are plenty of blackberries, the gath.
erers go out with large baskets, but
when the drought has almost con,
sumed the fruit, then a quart meas.
ure will do as well. It took the
yenomous snake on Paul's hand, and