Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-04-05
TALMAGE's SERMON.
MiSFoRTUNES AND TRIALS OF
CHRISTIANS ARE HEAvEN-SENT


Copyright, 1902, Louis KIopsch " "
washington, March z3-From d
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, 81, IS: For the fitches are not
thrashed with a thrashing instrument,
neither is a cart wheel turned about
upon the cummin, but the fitches are
beaten out with a stan and the cum
min with 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
ggt of hundred is solace Look then.
10 this neglected allegory OF my text.
There are three kinds of seed men
tioned-fitches. cummin and corn. OF
Ehe last We all know. But it may be
well to state that the fitches and the
cummin were small seeds ike the
caraway or the chickpea- When these
grains or herbs we're to De thrashsd.
they were thrown on the floor. and the
workmen would come around with
stan or rod or fail and beat them un-
til the seed would be separated, but
when the corn was TO be thraShed.
men would fasten horses or oxen TO =
cart with iron dented wheels; that cart
would be drawn around the thrashing
foor, and so the work would be ac
complished- Different kinds of thrashz
ing for different products. The
fitches are not thrashed with a thrash
Ing instrument neither = a cart wheel
turned about the cummin. but the
ftehes are beaten out with a staff and
the cummin with a rod. Bread corn
is bruised because he viii not ever be
thrashing it
Aly subject. in the first place, teaches
US that it is no compliment TO us #
we escape great trial The ftches and
the cummin on one thrashing floor
might look over to the corn on an
other thrashing floor aud say Look
at that poor, miserable bruised corn.
We have only been a little pounded.
but that has been almost destroy ed .
Well, the corn, If it had lips. would
answer and say DO you know the
reason you have not been as much
pounded as l have2 1t is because you
are not OF so much worth as 7 am Ii
you were. you would be as severely
run over Yet there are men who
suppose they are the Lords fayOrites
simply because their barns are full
and their bank account is flush and
there are no funerals in the house. Il
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
cause you are but little worth and
she bruised and ground because she l.
the best part of the harvest The hef
of tie thrashing machine is according
to the value OF the grain. If you havs
not been much thrashed IN life, per
haps there is not much to thrash, Il
you have not been much shaken O
trouble perhaps ii is because there L
going to be a very small yield lt tool
the venomous snake on Paufs hand
and the pounding of him with stone:
until he was taken up for dead, ans
the jamming against him of prison
gates. and Ephesian yociferation, ant
the ankles skinned by the painful
stocks. and the laundering of the Al
exandrian corn ship, and the behead
ing stroke of the Roman sherin Il
bring Paul to his proper development
By the carefulness OF the thraShin.
YOU may always conclude the value O
the grain
Next. my text teaches US that Go,
proportions our trials TO what we cal
bear-the stan for the ftches, the ro
for the cummin, the iron wheel for tn
corn Sometimes people in great trou
BILE say. ..Oh, 1 can't bear it," But yo
did bear it God would not have sen
il upon you il he had not known tha
YOU could bear it. You trembied an
you swooned, but you got through
God viii not take from your eyes on
tear too many nor from your lung
one sigh too deep nor from your TEN
pies one throb too sharp There
not 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 a trick on the par
of those who are in the same kind c
merchandise that you are. bat God in
tended to overrule fer your immorts
help. oh" you say, there is no nee
talking that way to me- + don't Hk
to be cheated and outraged Neithe
does the corn like the corn thrashel
but AFTER it has been thrashed an
wfnnowed it has a great deal bette
opinion of winnowing mills and cor
thrashers-
Everybody has some vexatson or an
noyance or trial. and he or she think
it is the one least adapted --Anythin
but this all say anything but this.
NY hearcr, are you not ashamed I