Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-15
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
MISFoRTUNES AND TRIALS OF
CHRISTIANS ARE HEAVEN-SENT.
Meant But to Test the strength and
Fortitude of Those Bread
Corn Is Bruised Because lie VIII Not
Ever BE Thrashing It."

hIbDScn, n. ,
n Washington, March 23.-From a
process familiar to the farmer DR.. Tai
mage draws lessons of consolation and
encouragement for people in sorrow
and adversely. The text is Isaiah
xviii, q, 2S; For the ftches are not
thrashed with thrashing instrument
neither is a cart wheel turned about
upon the cummin but the ftches are
n beaten out with stan and the cum
min with a rod Bread corn is bruised
because he will not ever be thrashing
it,"
Misfortunes of various kinds come
i upon various people, and in all times
j the great need of ninety-nine people
\ out of a hundred is solace. Look then,
to this neglected allegory of my text.
There are three kinds of seed men
i tioned-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
caraway 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 was thrown on the floor and the
men would fasten horses or oxen to Z
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
ftches are not thrashed with a thrash
ing instrument, neither Is cart wheel
turned about the cummin, but the
fitches are beaten out with a staff and
the cummin with a rod. Bread corn
is bruised because he will not ever be
thrashing it."
My subject, in the first place, teaches
us that 1t is no compliment to us if
we escape great trial. The ftches and
the cummin on one thrashing floor
might look over to the corn on an
other thrashing floor, and say: Look
at that poor miserable bruised corn!
We have only been a 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 | have? 1t is because you
are not of so much worth as | am. If
you were, you would be as severely
run over" Yet there are men who
suppose they are the Lords favorites
simply because their barns are full
and their bank account is flush and
there are no funerals in the house. 1t
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 be-
cagse you are but little worth and
she bruised and ground because she is
the best part of the harvest. The heft
of the thrashing machine is according
to the value of the grain If you have
not been much thrashed in life, per
ha?s there is not much to thrash! II
yol have not been much shaken OF
trouble perhaps it is because there .
going to be a very small yield. 1t toob
the venomous snake on Pauls hand
and the pounding of him with stones
until he was taken up for dead and
tho jemming against him of prison
gates, and Ephesian vociferation, anC
the ankles skinned by the painful
stocks, and the foundering of the AL
eysndrian corn ship, and the behead
ing stroke of the Roman sheriff tC
bring Paul to his proper development
BY the carefulness of the thrashinl
you may always conclude the valuo o
the grain.
Next. my text teaches us that Coz
proportions our trials to what We cal
bear-the staff for the fitches, the rot
for the cummin, the iron wheel for tn
corn. Sometimes people in great trou
BILE say, "Oh, | can't bear it," But yol
did bear it, God would not have sen
it upon you if he had not known tina
you could bear it. You trembled an
you swooned, but you got through
God will not take from your eyes on
tear too many nor from your lung
one sigh too deep nor from your tenn
ples one throb too sharp. There i
not a dollar of bad debts on your led
ger or a disappointment about good
that you expected to go UP, but tina
have gone down. or a swindle of you
business partner or trick on the par
of those who are in the same kind o
merchandise that you are, but God In
tended to overrule for your immorta
help. "Oh," you say, there is no nee
talking that way to me. / don't lik
10 be cheated and outraged" Neithe
does the corn like the corn thrashel
but after it has been thrashed an