The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-04-02
Hy Careful ThrashinG Gou May AL
ways Tell the Value of Grain.

! the great QCeO Ol ulEell -I!Ic pCoPlt
! out Of a hundred is solace. Look. then.
to this neglected allegory Of my text.
There are three kinds Of seed men,
tioned-titcheS, cummin and corn. Or
the last we all know. But it may be
well to state that the ttcheS 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 WINS to be thraShcd 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 thrashlng
floor, and so the work would be ac-
complished. Different kinds of thrash
ing for different products. The titches
are not thraShed with thrashing in
strument, neither is cart wheel turn
ed about upon the cummin, but the
htcheS 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 go
through some kind Of thrashing pro-
cess. The fact that you may be de-
voting your life to honorable and no.
BILE purposes will not win you any
escape. Wilberforce, the Christian
emancipation, was in his day derisively
called Doctor Cantwell." Thomas
Babington Macaulay, the advocate Of
all that was good, long before ne be-
came the most conspicuous historian
of his day was caricatured in one Of the
quarterly reviews as "Babbletongue
Macaulay." Norman Mcleod, the
great friend of the Scotch poor, was
industriously maligned in all quarters,
although on the day when he was car
ried 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 for
ever and ever" All the small wits OF
London had their fling at John Wesley,
the father of MethodiSm. II 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. AL who will live godly
in Christ Jesus must suffer perSecu-
tion. Besides that, there are the sick
nesses and the bankruptcies and the
disappointmentS which are ever put
ting cup of aloeS to your lip. Those
wrinkles on your fsce are hieroglyphics
which, if deciphered, would make out
a thrilling story of trouble. The foot
step 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.
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 u 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
cannonade of some great disaster. All
the fitches and the cummin and the
corn must come down on the thrashing
floor and be pounded.
Ny subject, in the first place, teaches
US that it is no compliment to us if we
escape great trial. The titches and the
cummin on one thrashing floor might
look over to the corn on another thrash
ing floor and say: Look at that poor,
miserable. buruised 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 oeen as much pounded IS l
have? 1t is because you are not CT SO
much worth as l am. If you were,
YOU would be as severely run over.
Yet there are men who suppose they
are the Lerd's favorites simply because
their barns are full and their bank ac-
count is flush and there are no funerals
in the house. 1t may be because they
are ftches and cummin, while down
at the end OF the lane the poor widow
NAV be the Lords corn. You are but
little pounded because you are little
worth and she bruised and ground be-
cause she is the best part Of the har-
vest. The heft Of the thraShlng ma
chine is according to the value OF the
grain. II 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 a very
small Weld. When there are plenty Of
blackberrieS, the gathercrS go out with
large baskets. but when the drought
has almost consumed the fruit, then
ouart measure will do as well. 1t took
the yenomous snake on PaulS hand,
and the pounding Of him with stones
until he was taken up for dead. and
the iamming against him OF prison
gates. and the Ephesian vociferatlon:
and the ankles skinned by the palnfu!
stocks. and the laundering of the Alex
andrian corn ship, and the beheadlng
stroke Of the Roman sheriff to bring
Paul to his proper development. 1t
was not because Robert Mo1fat and
Lady Rachel Russell and FREDERICK
Oberlin were worse than other people
that they had to suffer. 1t was be-
cause they were better and God want
a6 to make them best. By the care