Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-03-24

encouragement Tor people III sorrow
and adversely. The text is Isaiah xviii,
81, %: For the fitches are not thrash
ed with a thrashing instrument, nei-
Their is q cart wheel turned about upon
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."
MiSfOrtunes of various kinds come
upon various people, and in all times
the great need of ninety-nine people
out of q hundred is sOlace. Look, then,
to this neglected allegOry of my text.
There are three kinds of seed men
tiOned-titches, 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 thraShCd that
was thrown on the floor, and the men
would faSten horses or oxen to 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 thraShCd with Il thrashing in
strument, neither is Il cart wheel turn
ed about upon the cummin, but the
fitches are beaten out with Il 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 press
es upon our souls is that we all 20
through some kind of tErashing 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 emancipation,
was in his day derisivCly 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 EoOr, was industriOusly ma
ligned 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, 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 es-
cape the maligning of the world nei-
Their can you expect to get rid of the
sharp. keen stroke of the iridium.
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
appointments which are ever putting n
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 CT 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.
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 tine
cannOnade of some great disaster. Al
the titches and the cummin and the
corn must come down on the thrashine
floor and be pounded.
My subject in the first place, teaches
us that ii is no compliment to us if we
escape great trial. The fitches 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, bruised corn. We have only
been little pounded. but that has beer
almost destroyed" Well, the corn, il
It had lips, would answer and say: do
you know the reason you have not beer
as much pounded as | have? 1t is be
cause you are not of so much worth al
am. If you were. you would be a!
severely run over" Yet there are mel
who suppose they are the Lords favor
ties simply because their barns ar,
full and their bank account is fusl
and there are no funerals in the house
1t may be because they are fitches ant
cummin while down at the end of tn,
lane the POOR widow may be the Lord
corn. You are but little pounded be
cause you are but little worth and sh
bruised and ground because she is tn
best part Of the harvest. The heft o
the thraShing machine is according t
the value Of the grain. If you have no
been much thrashed in life, perhap
there is not much TO thrash! If yo
have not been much shaken of trouble