The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-03-28
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
MISFOR1uNES AND TRIALS OF
CHRISTIANS ARE HEAvEN-SENT.
Meant hut to Test tho Strength aud
Fortltude of Those Anlicted-"Bread
Corn Is Bruised Because lie VIII Not
Ever he Thrashing It."

Copyright, 1902, Louis Klopsch. N. W
Washington, March 23.-From
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 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 staff and the cum
min 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 a hundred is solace. Look, then,
to this neglected allegory OF my text.
There are three kinds of seed mem
tioned-fitches, cummin and corn. VI
the last we all know. But it may be
we'll 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 I'M
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
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 thraShed with thrash
ing instrument, neither Is cart wheel
turned about the cummin, but the
fitches are beaten out with a staff and
the cimmin with a rod. Bread corn
is bruised because he will not ever be
thrashing it,"
My subject, in the first place, teaches
us that it is no compliment to If
we escape great trial. The fitches 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. II
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 anu
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-
cause 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-
hans there is not much to thrash! II
YOU have not been much shaken OF
trouble. perhaps it is because there Is
going to be very small yield. 1t TOOK
the yenomous snake on PauPs hand,
and the pounding of him with stones
until he was taken up for dead, and
the tanning against him Of prison
gates, and Ephesian vociferation, and
the ankles skinned by the painful
stocks. and the laundering of the AL
exandrian corn ship, and the behead-
ing stroke of the Roman sheriff to
bring Paul to his proper development.
By the carefulness of the thrashing
Won may always conclude the value OF
the grain.
Next. my text teaches us that God
nroportions our trials to what we can
bear-the staff for the fitches, the rod
for the cummin, the iron wheel for the
corn. Sometimes people in great trou-
ble say. ooh, can't bear it," But you
did hear it, God would not have sent
It upon you if he had not known that
YOU could bear it. You trembled and
YOU swooned, but you got through
God will not take from your eyes one
tear too many nor from your lungs
one sigh too deep nor from your tenn
ples one throh too sharp. There is
not a dollar of bad debts on your led
ger or a disappointment about goods
that you expected to go up, but that
have gone down, or a swindle OF your
business partner or trick on the part
of those who are in the same kind OF
merchandise that you are, but God in
tended to override for your immortal
help. "oh," you say, there is no need
taking that way to me. l don't like
to be cheated and outraged" Neither
does the corn like the corn thrasher
but after it has been thrashed and
winnowed it has great deal better
opinion of winnowing mills and corn
thrashers.
WELL" you say, eff l could choose
my troubles, would be willing to be
troubled" "Ah, my brother, then II
would not be trouble. You would
choose something that would not hurt
and unless it hurt it does not get sane
tilted. Your trial perhaps may be child.