The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-29
SOLACE INADVERSITY
Encouragement and Consolation fer
Those In Trouble.
NE. T.Image Draws . Lesson from n
Freezes Familiar 20 the Farmer
-Triumphant End OF Mis-
fortunes.

From a process familiar to the farm
or DIR. Talmage draws lessons OF con
ISOLATION and encouragement for poo
ME in sorrow and adversely. The text
is ISaiah 2s: 81, 20: "For the fitches
are not thrashed with thrashing in
stxument, neither Is cart wheel
tsrned about upon the cummin, but
the fitches are beaten out with stan
and the cummin with rod. Bread
corn is bruised because he will not
ever be thrashing it"
Misfortune of various kinds come
upon various people, and in all times
ahe great need of 90 people out OF a
Aundred is solace. Look, then, to this
neyiected allegory of my text.
There are three kinds OF seed men,
-aioned-ftches, cummin and corn. VI
,the last we all know. But it may be
well to state that the fitches and the
rummin were small seeds, like the car
away or the chickpea. When these
grains or herbs were to be thrasheu'
they were thrown on the floor, and the
Workmen would come around with
stan or rod or fail and beat them I'M
I'll the seed would be separated, but
uhcn the corn was to be thrashed that
ugas thrown on the floor, and the men
would fasten horses or oxen to cart
with iron denied wheels; that cart
would be drawn around the thrashing
floor, and so the work would be ac-
eomplished. Different kinds of thrash
ing for different products. The
ktchcs are not thrashed with thrash
ing instrument, neither is a cart wheel
turned about upon thecummin, but the
6tches are beaten out with 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
presses upon our souls is that we all
go through some kind Of thrashing
process. The fact that you may be de-
voting your life to honorable and noble
purposes will not win you any escape.
Wherefore, the Christian emancipa-
tor, was in his day derisively called
~Doctor Cantwell." Thomas Babbing-
ton Macaulay, the advocate of all that
was good, long before he became the
most conspicuous historian of his day
was caricatured in one of the quarter
ly reviews as "Babbletongue Macau-
lay" Norman Mcleod, the great friend
of the Scotch poor, was industriously
maligned 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 ut John Wesley, the
father of Methodism. If such men
could not escape the maligning 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 sicknesses
and the bankruptcies and the irrita-
lions and the disappointments which
arc ever putting cup of aloes to your
lip. Those wrinkles on your face are
hieroglyphics which, il deciphered,
would make out thrilling story of
trouble. The footstep of the rabbit
rs seen the next morning on the snow,
and on the white hairs of the aged
arc the footprints showing where
swift trouble alighted.
My subject in the first place,
F. teaches us that it is no compliment
Z" as IL we escape great trial. The
htches 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 little pounded, but that has
been almost destroyed" Well, the
corn, IL it had lips, would answer
and say: do you know the reason
you have not been as much pounded
rs I have? II 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 sum-
pose they are the Lords favorites
simply because their barns are full
and their bank accounts Is flush and
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
poundcd because you are but little
worth and she bruised and ground
because she Is the best part Of the
harvest. The heft Of the thrasbinp
machine In according to the value o,
The grain. II you have not beer
much thrashed in life. perhaps Their.
is not much to thrash! II you hay.
not been much shaken Of trouble
perhaps it Is because there Is goin,
10 be very small yield. When Their,
are plenty of blackberries, the gath
-erers go put with large baskets, bu
when the drought has almost con
snmcd the fruit, then a quart meas
ure will do as well. It took tn
~enomous snake on Paul's hand, an
The pounding of him with stones un
iii he was taken up for dead, and tn
jamming against him of prison gate,
and the Ephesian vociferation, IN
the ankles skinned by the painful
stocks, and the laundering of tn
Alexandrian corn ship, and the be
heading stroke of the Roman sherii
60 bring Paul to his proper develop
ment. IL was not because Rober