Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-03-29


IN farmer Dr. Talmage draws lessons |
% of consolation and encouruge cement |
for people in sorrow and adversely. The |
text is Isaiah xviii -. -: For the |
htches are not thrashed with 4 thrashing /
instrument neither IS cart wheel turn
cd about upon the cummin. but the Gtches
are beaten out with staff and the cum
min with a rod. Bread corn is bruised
because he win not ever he thrashing it"
Misformnes OF varions kinds come upon
various people, and in all times the great
need OF nincW-nine people cut Of hun
bred is solace Look, then, 10 this neg
iected allegory of my text.
There are three kinds of seed mention
ed-htches, cummm and corn. OF the
last we all know But it may Ice well 10
state that the titches and the cummin
were small seeds. like the caraway or
the chickpoa. When these grains or
herbs were to bc thrashed. they were
thrown on the floor, and the workmen
would come around with staff or rod or
fail and beat them until the seed would
be separated, but when the corn was 10
be thrashed that was thrown on the floor,
and the men would fastcn horses or oxen
cart would be drawn around the thrash
ing floor and 50 the work would he ac-
eomp!Shed. Different Kinds of thrashins
for different products. The htchcs er",
mot thraShed with thrashing instru-'
ment, neither is 4 cart wheel turned
about upon the cummin. but The ftchcs
are beaten out with staff and the cum
min with Il rod Bread corn is bruised
because he will not ever be thrashing it
The great thought that the text presses
upon our souls is that we all so through
some kind of thrashing process. The fact
that you may be dcvGtiug your life to
honorable and noble purposes will not
win YOU any escape Wilbcrf0rce the
christian emancipation, was in his day
derisively called Doctor Cantwell."
Thomas Darlington Macaulay, the adyo-
cate of az that was good, long before he
became the most conspicuous historian of
his day was caricatured in one OF The
aquarterly reviews as "Bahbletougue Mae
aulay.' Norman Mcleod. the great
friend of the Scotch poor. was induStri-
sously maligned in all quarters. although
on the day when he was carried out 10
his burial workman stood and looked at
the funeral procession and said, III 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 i4ehdon had their ding at John
Wesley the father of Methodism Ii
a&fh men could not escape the mahgnins
OF the world. neither can yom expect to
get rid OF the sharp keen stroke OF the
tribulum. All who will live godly in
Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. Be
sides that, there are the sickncsscs and
the bankruptcies and the irritations and
the disappointment which are ever put
ting cup of aloes to your lip. Those
wrinkles on y0nr face are hieroglyphics
which, If deciphered would make out a
thrilling story OF trouble. The footstcp
OF 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 Uncx pectedIy.
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 Reyolu-
tionary War. and while they were wit
Messing a farce and the audience was in
great graduation the guns of an advanc-
ing army were heard and the audience
broke up iH wild panic aud ran for their
lives, so oftentimcs while you are seat
ed amid the joys and festivities OF this
world you hear the cRunonade of some
great disaster. All the htches and the
cummin and the corn must come down
on the thrashing floor and be pounded
My subject, in the first place, teaches
us that 1t is no compliment 10 us il we
escape great trial. The fitches and the
cummin on one thrashing floor might look
over TO the corn on another thrashing
floor and say: Look at that poor. mis-
cradle, bruised corn. We have only been
a little pounded. but that has been al
most 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 sup /
pose they are the Lords favortcs simply /
because their barns are full and their !
bank account is flush and there are no /
funerals in the house. II may DO because /
they are htches and cummin, while down /
at the end Of the lane the poor widow /
may be the Lords corn. Yon are but lit /
tie pounded because you are but little
worth and she bruised and ground be |
cause she Is the best part Of the harvest. |
The heft OF the thrashing machine is ac-
cording to the value OF the grain. II
you have not been much thrashed in life. |
perhaps there is not much to thrash.
Help Us Bear Burdens.
Next, my text teaches us that God
proportions our trials to what We can |
bear-the staff for the ftches. the rod
for the cumnin. the iron wheel for the
corn. Sometimes people in great trouble |
say, "0h. / can't bear IT." But you
did bear 1t. God would not have sent it
upon you II be had not known that you
could bear 1t. You trembled and you
swooned but you got through. God will I
not take from your eyes one tear too
many nor from your lungs one sigh too
deep nor from your temples one throb too
sharp. The perplcxities Of your earthly
business have not in them one tangle too
intricate You sometimes feel as II our
world were full OF bludgeons flying hap
hazard Oh no. they are fhrashing in /