The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-02
DR.TALnAGE's sERnON
The Eminent Dlvlue's Sunday
Discourse.

ahrashlng Process ror our Own Good
triumph After Misfortune.
WAsuINarov. ID. C.-From a process
familiar TO the farmer DR. 1almage draws.
Lessons of consolation and encouragement
for ppople In sorrow and adversely. The
text Is Isaiah xviii n. %. "For the
6tches are not thrashed with thrashlng
instrument. neither is a cart wheel turned
about upon the cummin, but the htches
are benton ont with a staff and the cum
min with a rod Bread corn Is bruised be-
cause he win not ever be thrashing It.
Mifortunes of various kinds come upon
various people, and IN all times the great
need of ninoty-nine people out OF hum
dred is solace. Look, thea, to tins neg
lected alegory Of my text.
There are three kinds Of seed men
6nned-itches, Cummn and corn. OF the
last we an know. But 1t may be we'll to
state that the htches and The cummin were
small seeds, like the caraway or the chick
pea When these grains or herbs were TO
be thfashed they were thrown on the
floor. and the workmen would come around
with staff or rod or fail and beat them UNI
til the seed would be separated, but when
the corn was to be thrashed that was
thrown on the floor, and the men would
tasten horses or oxen to a cart with iron
denied wheels that cart would be drawn
around the thrashing foor, and so the
work would be accomplished. Different
kinds of thrashing for different products.
1.-THE htches were not thrashcd with
thrashng instrument, neither Is a cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin, but
the ftches are beaten out with a staff and
the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is
bruised because he will not ever be thrash
ing it."
The great thought that the text presses
upon our souls is that we all 60 through
some i,ind of thrashing process. The fact
ths on may be devotng your life to hon
orable and noble purposes will not win you
any escape. Wilberforce, the Christian
emancipation. was in his day derisiyaly
called doctor Cantwel" Thomas Bah
ineton Alacauley, the advocate OF all that
was GOOD, long before he became the most
CONSPICUOUS historian of his day, was carl
catured in one Of the quarterly reviews as
"Babbetongue Macauiay." Norman Nc
Leod, the great friend of the Scotch poor,
was industriousiy mahgned in all quarters,
although on the day when he was carried
out to his burial a 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 Me5nodism.
If sIch men could not escape the mahgn-
ing OF the world, neither can you expect
to get rid of the sharp, keen stroke of the
tribulum. All who will live cody in Christ
Jesus must suffer persecution. Besides
that, there are the sicl,nesses and the
bankruptcies and the irrtations and the
disappointments which are ever putting n
cup of aloes to your lips. Those wrinkles
h,s.y .,l,
declphered, would make out thrilling
story of trouble. The footstep of the rab-
bit is seen the next morning on the snow,
and on the white hairs of the aged are the
footprints showing where swift trouble
alghted.
Even amid the joys and hilarities Of life
trouble will sometimes break in. As when
the people were assembled in the Charles
town theatre during the Revolutionary
War, and while they were witnessing a
farce and the audience was in great gratu-
lation the guns of an advancing army were
heard and the audience broke up wild
panic aad ran for their lives, so oftentimes
while Won are seated amid the joys and
festivities of this world you hear the can
nonade Of some great disaster. All the
htches and the cummin and the corn must
ccme down on the thrashing floor and be
pounded
My subject, in the first place, teaches us
that it is no compliment to US if we es-
cGpe great trial. The ftches and the cum
min on one thTashing floor might look
over TO the corn on another thrashing floor
and say: LOOK at that poor, miserable,
bruised com! We have only been little
pounded but that has been almost de.
stroyed," Well, the corn, il it had lips
would answer and say "Do you know the
reaeon YOU have not been as much pounded
as l 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 anC
there are no funerals in the house. 1t may
be because they are ftches and cummn
while down at the end OF the lane the poor
widow may be the Lords corn.
You are but little pounded because vol
are bit little worth and she bruised anC
ground because she is the best part of tht
harvest The heft Of the thrashing ma
chine is according to the value Of tn,
grain. If you have not been much thrashet
in life, perhaps there is not much t.
thrash! If you have not been much shaker
of trouble, perhaps it is because there i
going to be very small yield.
When there are plenty of blackberries
the ratherers go out with large baskets
but VIII IN the drought, has almost CONSUMED
the fruit, then a quart measure will do a
well
1t took the veno~lous snake on Paul
hand, and The pounding Of him with stone
INIT he was taken up for dead, and tn
iamm;Eg against hlm of prison gates, an
the Ephesian moderation, and the ankle
skinned by the painful stocks, and tn
touuderng Of the AleSandrian corn shiT