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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SER3ION'.
Subject: "The Thrashing 31achlne."
Text : "For t?ie fitches are not fhrashea
rrith a thrashing instrument, neither is a cart
frheel turned afoul upon 'Ju? cummin, hut the
filches are beaten out icith a staff and the cum
min icitfi a rod. Bread corn is bruised he
cause he frill not ever be thrashing it."
Isaiah xxriii., 27, 28.
There are three kinds of seed mentioned
fitches, cummin and com. Of the last we
all know. But it may be well to state that
the fitches and the cummiirwere small seeds
like the carraway or the chickpea. When
these grains or herbs were to be thrashed,
they were thrown on the floor, and the work
men would como around with staff or rod or
flail and beat them until 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 a
cart with iron dented wheels. That cart
would be drawn around the thrashing floor,
and so the work would be accomplished.
Different kinds of thrashing for different
products. 4 '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 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 devoting your life to honorable and
noble purposes will not win you any escape.
"VVilberforce. the Christian emancipator, was
in his day derisively called "Dr. Cantwell."
Thomas Babinton 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 quarterly revievs
as ''Babbletongue Macaulay." 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 workmantood and looked at
the funeral procession and said. "If he had
done nothing for anybody more than ho has
done for me, he should shine as the stars for
ever and ever." All the small wits of Lon
don had their fling at John "Wesley, the father
of Methodism.
If such men could not escape the- malign
ing of the world, neither can you expect to
get rid of the sharp, keen stroke of the trib
ulum. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus
must suffer persecution. Besides that there
are the sicknesses, and the bankruptcies, and
the irritations, and the disappointments
which are ever putting a cup of aloes to your
lip. Those wrinkles on your face are hiero
glyphics which. If deciphered, would make
out a thrilling story of trouble. The footstep
of the rabbit is seen the next morning on the
snow, and on the white hairs of the aged are
footprints showing where swift trouble alight
ed. Even amid the joys and hilarities of life
trouble will sometimes break in. As when
the pec pie were assembled in the Charles
town theatre during the Revolutionary war
and while they were witnessing a farce and
the audience was in great gratulation the
guns of an advancing army were heard and
the audience broke up in wild panic and ran
for their lives, so ofttimes while you ara
seated amid the joys and festivities of this
world you hear the cannonade of some great
disaster. All the fitches, and the cummin,
and the corn must come down on the thrash
ing floor and be pounded.
My subject, in the first place, teaches us
that it is no compliment to us if we escape
great trial. The fitches and the cummin on
the thrashing floor might look over to the
corn on another 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 I have? It is because you
are not so much wort h as I am. If you were,
you would be aa severely run over."
Yet there men who suppose they are the
Lord's favorites simply because their barns
are full, and their bank account is flush, and
there are no funerals in the house. It may be
because they are fitches and cummin, while
down at the end of the lane the poor widow
may be the Lord's corn. You are but little
pounded because 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 ac
cording to the value of the grain. If you
have not been much thrashed in life, perhaps
there is not much to thrash. If you have
not been much shaken of trouble, perhaps
there is going to be a very small yield. When
there are plenty of blackberries the gatherers
go out with large baskets, but when the
drought has almost consumed the fruit then
a quart measure will do as well. It took the
venomous snake on Taul's hand and the
pounding of him with stones until he was
taken up for dead, and the jamming against
him of prison gates, and the Ephesian vocif
eration, and the skinned ankles of the pain
ful stocks, and the foundering of the Alex
andrian corn ship, and the beheading stroke
of the ltoman sheriff to bring Faul to hie
proper development.
It was not because Robert Moffat and Lady
Rachel Russell and Frederick Oberlin were
worse than oth'ir people that they had to
suffer : it was because they were better and
God wanted to make them best. By the
carefulness of the thrashing you may al
ways conclude the value of the grain.
Next my text teaches us that God propor
tions our trials to what we can bear, the
ctaff for the fitches, the rod for the cummin,
the iron wheel for the corn. Sometimes
people in great trouble say, "Oh. I can't
bear it?" But you did bear it, God would
not have sent it upon you if He did not know
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 temples one throb too
sharp. The perplexities of your earthly
business have not in them one tangle too in
tricate. You sometimes feel as if our world were
full of bludgeons flying haphazard. Oh, no ;
they are thrashing instruments that God just
suits to your case. There is not a dollar of
bad debts on your ledger, or a disappoint
ment about goods that you expected to go
up. but that have gone down, or a swindle
of your business partner, or a trick on tue
part of those who are in the same kind of
business that you are, but God intended to
overrule for your immortal help. "Oh."
you say, "there is no need talking that way
to me. - I don't like to be cheated and out
raged." Neither does the corn like the corn
thrasher, but after it has been thrashed and
winnowed it has a great deal better opinion
of winnowing mills and corn thrashers.
"Well, ' you say, "if I could choose my
troubles I would be willing to bo troubled."
Ah, my brother, then it would not be trouble.
You would choose something that would not
hurt, and unless it hurts it does not get sanc
tified. Your trial perhaps may be childless
ness. You are fond of children. You say
"Why does God send children to that other
household, where they are unwelcome and
are beaten and banged about, when I would
have taken them in the anus of my affec-
tions? You say. "Any omer iruxi uuj. mu.
Your trial perhaps may a disdg
ured countenance or a face that is
easily caricatured, and you say. "Oh.
I could endure anything if only I
was good looking." And your trial perhaps
is a violent temper, and you have to drive it
like six unbroken horses amid the gunpow
der explosions of a great holiday, and ever
and anon it runs away with you. Your trial
is the asthma. You say, "Oh, If it were
rheumatism or neuralgia or erysipelas, but
it t thU asthma, and it is such an exhaust
ing thing to breathe." Your trouble is a hus
band, short, sharp, snappy and cross about
th hr.ne and raisins: a small riot because a
button i3 off I How could you know the but
ton is oil?
Your tnal is a wifeevfrin contest with the
servants tnd she is a sloven. Though she
was very careful about her appearance in
your presence once, now she is careless, be
cause she said her fortune is made ! Your
trial is a hard school lesson you cannot
learn, and you have bitten your finger naibj
until they are a sight to behold. Everybody
has some vexation or annoyance or trial,
and he or she thinks it is "the one least
adapted. "Anything but this," all say.
"Anything but this."
Oh, my hearer, are you not ashamed to bo
complaining all tnis time against God? Who
manages the affairs of this world anyhow?
Is it an infinite Modoc, or a Sitting Bull sav
age, or an omnipotent Nana Sahib ! No, it
is the most merciful and glorious and wise
Being in all the universe. You cannot teach
Omnipotence anything. You have fretted
and worried almost enough. Do you not
think so? Some of you are making your
selves ridiculous in the sight of the angels.
Here is a naval architect, and he draws out
the plan of a ship of many thousand tons.
Many workmen are engaged on it for a long
while. The ship is done, and some day. with
the flags up and the air gorgeous with bunt
ing, that vessel is launched for Southampton.
At that time a lad six years of age comes
running down the dock with a toy boat which
he has made with his own jackknife, and he
says: "Here, my boat is better than yours.
Just look at this jibboom and these weather
cross jack braces," and he drops his little
boat beside the great ship, and there is a roar
of laughter on the docks.
Ah. my friends, that great ship is your life
as God planned it vast, million "tonned.
ocean destined, eternity bound. That little
boat is your life as you are Irvine to hew it
out and fashion it and launch it. Ah. do not
try to be a rival of the great Jehovah. God
is alway3 right, and in nine rases out of ten
you are wrong. He sends just the hardships,
just the bankruptcies, just the cross that it
is best for you to have. He knows what kind -of
grain you are, and He sends the right kind
of thrashing machine. It will be a rod or
staff or iron wheel just according as you are
fitches or cummin or corn.
Again, my subject teaches us that God
keeps trial on us until we let go. The farmer
shouts "whoa !" to his horses as soon as the
grain has dropped from the stalk. The far
mer comes with his fork and tosses up the
straw, and he sees that the straw has let go
the grain and the grain is thoroughly
thrashed. So God. Smiting rod and turn
ing wheel both cease as "soon as we let go.
We hold on to this world with its pleasures
and riches and emoluments, and our knuckles
are so firmly set that it seems as if we could
hold on forever. God coir.es along with
some thrashing trouble and beats us loose.
We started under the delusion that this was
a great world. We learned out of our geog
raphy that it was so many thousand miles
in diameter and so many thousand miles in
circumference, and we said, "Oh, my, what
a world !" Troubles came in after life, and
this trouble sliced off one part of the world,
and that trouble sliced off another part of the
world, and it has got to be a smaller world,
and in some of your estimations a very in
significant world, and it is depreciating all
the time as a spiritual property. Ten per
cent, off, fifty per cent, off, and there are
those here who would not give ten cents for
this world for the entire world as a soui
possession.
We thought that friendship was a grand
thing. In school we used to write composi
tions about friendship, and perhaps we
made our graduating speech on commence
ment day on friendship. Oh, it was a charmed
thing. But does it mean as much to you as
it used to? You have gone on in life, and
one friend has betrayed you, and another
friend has misinterpreted you," and another
friend has neglected you, and friendship
somes now sometimes to mean to you merely
another ax to grind !
So with money. We thought if a man had
a competency he was safe for all the future,
but we have learned that a mortgage may be
lefeated by an unknown previous incum
brance ; that signing your name ou the back
of a note may be your business death war
rant ; that a new t ariff may change the cur
rent of trade ; that a man may be rich to-day
and poor to-morrow. And God, by all these
misfortunes, is trying to loosen our grip, but
still we hold on. God smites us with a staff,
but we hold on. And He strikes us with a
rod, but we hold on. And He sends over us
the iron wheel of misfortune, but we hold on,
There are men who keep their grip on this
world until the last moment who suggest to
me the condition and conduct of the poor In
dian in the boat in the Niagara rapids com
ing on toward the fall. Seeing that he could
not escape, a moment or two before he got
to the verge of the plunge he lifted a wino
bottle and drank it off and then tossed the
bottle into the air. So there are men who
ctutch the world, and they go down through
the rapids of temptation and sin, and they
hold on to the very last moment of life. drink
ing to their eternal damnation as they go
over and go down.
Oh, let go ! Let go ! The best fortunes are
in heaven. There are no absconding cashiers
from that bank, no failing in promises to pay.
Set your affections on things above, not on
thing on the earth. Let go ! Depend upon
it that God will keep upon you the staff, or
the rod, or the iron wheel until you do let go.
Another thing my text teaches us is that
Christian sorrow is going to have a sure
terminus. My text says : "Bread corn is
bruised because he will not be ever thrashing
it." . Blessed be God for that. Pound away,
O flail. Turn on. O wheel? Your work will
soon be done. "He will not be ever thrash
ing it." Now the Christian has almost as
much use in the organ for the stop tremulant
as he has for the trumpet. But after awhile
he will put the last dirge into the portfolio
forever. So much of us as is wheat will be
separated from so much as is chaff, and there
will be no need of pounding.
They never cry in heaven because they
have nothing to cry about. There are no
tears of bereavement, for you shall ha re your
friends all round about you. There are no
tears of poverty because each one sits at the
King's table and has has own chariot of sal
vation and free access to the wardrobe where
princes get their array. No tears of sickness,
for there are no pneumonias on the air, and
no malarial exhalations from the rolling
river of life, and no crutch for the lame limb,
and no splint for the broken arm. but the
pulses throbbing with the health of t he eternal
God in a climate tike our June before the
blossoms fall, or our gorgeous October be
fore the leaves scatter.
In that land the souls will talk over the
different modes of thrashing. Oh, the story
of the staff "that struck the fitches, and the
rod that beat the cummin, and the iron
wheel that went over the corn ! Daniel will
describe the lions, and Jonah leviathans,
and Paul the elmwood whips with a-hich
he was scourged, and Ere will tell how
aromatic Eden was the day she left it. an I
John Rogers will tell of the smart of II im
and Elijah of the fiery team that wheeied
him up the sky steeps, and Christ of the
numbness and paroxysm an I hemorrha ges
of the awful crucifixion- There th- y are tc
fore the throne of God. On oii. eievatioa
all those who were struck of the stuff. On a
higher elevation all those who were struck
of the rod, On a highest elevation, ant
amid the highest altitudes of heaven, all
those who were under the wheel. He will
not ever be thrashing it.
Oh. my hearers, is there not enough salve
in this text to make a plaster large enough
to heal all youk' wounds? When a child is
hurt, the mother is very apt to say to it.
"Now. it will soon feel better." And this Is
what God says when He unbosoms all the
trouble in the hush of this great promise.
"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy
cometh in the morning." You may leave
your pocket handkerchief sopping wet with
tears on your death pillow, but you will go
up absolutely sorrowless. They will wear
black ; you will wear white. Cypresses for
them, palms for jou.
You will say: "Is it possible that I am
here? Is this heaven? Am I so pure now I
will never do anything wrong? Am I so well
that I will never again be sick? Are these
companionships so firm that they will never
again be broken? Is that Marv? Is that
John? Is that my loved one I put away into
darkness? Can it be that these are the fa.
of those who lay so wan and emanated intha
back room on that awful night dying? Ok
how radiant they are : Loo: at thorn : How
radiant they are !
"Why, how unlike this place is from what
I thought when I left the world below. Min
isters drew pictures of this land, but how
tame compared with the reality ! Thy told
me on earth that death was sunset. No. no !
It is sunrise? Glorious sunrise ! I see the
light now purpling the hills, and the clouds
flame with the coming day."
Then the gates of heaven will be opened,
and the entranced soul, with the acutenoss
and power of the celestial vision, will look
ten thousands of miles down upon the ban
nered procession a river of shimmerinq
splendor and will cry out. "Who are they?"
And the angel of God standing close by will
say. "Don't you know who they are?" "No."
says the entranced soul. "I cannot guess who
they are." The angel will say: "I will tell
you, then, who they are. These are ther
who came out of great tribulation, or
thrashing, and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb."
Oh, that I could administer some of theso
drops of celestial anodyne to those nervous
and excited souls. If you would tate enough
of it, it would cure all your pangs. The
thought that you are going to get through
with this after awhile all this sorrow and
all this trouble. We shall have a great many
grand days in heaven, but I will tell vou
which will be the grandest day of nil the mil
lion ages of heaven. You say. "Are you sure
you can tell me?" Yes, I can. It will be tho
day we get there. Some say heaven is grow
ing more glorious. I suppose it is, but I do
not care much about that. Heaven now is
good enough for me.
Historv has no more gratulatorv scene
than the breaking in of the English army
upon Lucknow, India. A few weeks before
a massacre had occurred at Cawnpore, and
260 women and children had been put in a
room. Then five professional butchers went
in and slew them. Then the bodies of the
slain were taken out and thrown into a well.
As the English army came into Cawnpore
they went into the room, and, oh, what a
horrid scene I Sword strokes on the wall
near the door, showing that the poor things
had crouched when they died, and they saw
also that the floor was ankle deep in blood.
The soldiers walked on their heels across it
lest their shoes be submerged of the carnage.
And on that floor of blood there were flow
ing locks of hair and fragments of dresses.
Out in Lucknow they had heard of the
massacre, and the women were waiting for
the same awful death, waiting amid anguish
untold, waiting in pain and starvation, but
waiting heroically, when one day Havelock
and Outram and Norman and Sir David
Baird and Peel, the heroes of the English
army huzza for them ! broke in on that
horrid scene, and while yet the guns were
sounding, and while cheers were issuing
from the starving, dying people on the one
side and from the travel worn and powder
blackened soldiers on the other, right there
in front of the king's palace there was such a
scene of handshaking and embracing and
boisterous joy as would utterly confound the
pen of the poet and the pencil of the painter.
And no wonder, when these emaciated
women, who had suffered so heroically for
Christ's sake, marched out from their incar
cerations one wounded English soldier got
up in his fatigue and wounds and leaned
against the wall and threw his cap up and
shouted, "Three cheers, my boys, for the
brave women i
Oh, that was an exciting scene ! But a
gladder and more triumphant scene will it
bo when you come up into heaven from the
conflicts and incarcerations of this world,
streaming with the wounds of battle and won
with hunger. And while the hosts of God
are cheering their great hosanna you will
strike hands of congratulation and eternal
deliverance in the presence of the throne. On
that night there will be bonfires on every hill
of heaven, and there will be illumination in
every palace, and there will be a candle in
every window. Ah, no ; I forget, I forget.
They will have no need of the candle or of
the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light,
and they shall reign forever and ever. Hail,
hail, sons and daughters of the Lord God
Almighty !
VEKAGUA W C0LUMBTJ3.
Received With Enthusiasm and Pre
sented With the City's Freedom.
The Duke of -Veragua visited Columbus,
Ohio, as the guest of the city, the largest in
the world named in honor of Christopher Co
lumbus. The Duke and Duchess and their daughter
were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Henry T.
Chittenden. Commander Diekins and wife
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Waite,
and the remainder of the party were with Mr.
and Mrs. John Joyce.
The escort from the train consisted of
Mayor Karb and a Citizens Committee, the
Junia Hussars, Captain John C. L. Pugh and
Colonel A. B. Coit and staff, of the Four
teenth Ohio National Guard. En route from
the train thousands of people lined the side
walks and gave the Duke a handsome recep
tion. The ducal party rested until 2 p. m., when
they were escorted to a grand stand on Broad
street, at the north front of the Capitol,
where a parade of about thirteen thousand
school children passed, each papil carrying a
small United States flag.
During the exercises on the reviewing
stand the Duke was welcomed by 3Iayor
Karb and presented with the freedom of the
city and a solid gold key, nicely ornamented
and inscribed . "Christopher Columbus, 1492 ;
Columbus. Ohio, 1893." The Duke briefly
thanked the Mayor for the courtesies of the
occasion.
Aij:xakueb Russell Wces, the convert tc
Mohammedanism, says he is negotiating for
large tracts of land in this country with a
view of establishing H oh mm e lan colonies.
Interestinsr Scenes in Tangier.
Tangier's beauty lies in so many
different thinsrs in the monkliko parl
of the men and in the white mu:BVl
figures of the women : in the brillianov
of its sky, and of the sen dashing upon
the rocks and tossing the feluccfts with
their three-cornered sails from bide to
side; and in the green towers of the
mosques, and the listless loaves of tho
lalms rising from the centre of n mass
of white roofs ; and, above all, in the
color and movement of the bazars and
streets. The streets represent absolute
equality. They are at the widest but
three yards across, and every ono
pushes, and apparently every one has
something to sell, or at least something
to say, for they all talk and shout r.t
once and cry at tlmir donkeys or
abuse whoever touches them. A water--carrier,
with his goat -skin bag n his
back and his linger on the ttib through
which the water comes jostles yon on
one side, and t slave ns bhu-k and
shiny as a patent-leath r boot shoves
you on the other ns he makes way for
his master on a line white Arabian
horse with brilliant trappings and a
huge contempt for the donkeys in his
way. It is worth going to Tangier if
for no other reason than to see a .luve,
and to grasp the fact that h- eo?t any
where from a hundred to live hundred
dollars. To the older generation this
mav not seem worth while, but to tho
present generation those of it who
were born after Richmond was taken
it is a new and momentous sensation
to look at a man as line and stalwart
and human as one of your own people,
and feel that he cannot strike ior
higher wages, or even serve n a parlor
car porter or own a barber shop, but
must work out for life the $'200 his
owner paid for him at Fez. Harper's
Weekly.
Timidity of Elephants.
A big elephant which w as t mployed
to drag awav the carcass of a dead
bullock and had allowed tin1 burden to
be attached by ropes without observing
what it was, happened to look around
and instantly bolted, its fright increas
ing every moment as tho unknown ob
ject jumped and bumped at its heels.
After running some miles, like a dog
with a tin can tied to its tail, the ele
phant stopped and allowed itself to be
turned around, and drew the lmllock
back again without protest. London
Spectator.
The forests of Germany cover aoout
34,350,000 acres, or one-fourth of tho
whole area of tho empire, of which
jbout 12, 000, 000 acres nr.' crown prop
erty, 5,350,000 acres belong to com
munities and corporations and 17, 000,
000 acres are owned by private per
sons. It ifi said that 102 kernels of grain
have been counted in one head of
ivheat grown near Cheney, Washing
ton. To Cleanse I be f Hleni
Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious,
or when the blood is impure or sluggLsh.to per
manently cure habitual constipation, to awak
en the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity,
without irritating or weakening them, to dis
pel headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup of
Figs.
A. M. Priest, Drustrist, Shelbyville, Ind.,
says : " Hall's Catarrh Cur-i gives the bo.t of
satisfaction. Can kc plenty of testimonial-',
as it cures every one who tal es it." Druggist
bell it, 75c.
Impaired digestion cured by liecham'a
Pills. Beecham'e no others-. 'St cents a box.
"Why so hoarse ? Use Hatch's Universal
Cougu Syrup. 25 cents at drueg:'sts.
Inventors of anything made of wood assisted
financially or otherwise to patent or place on
market. Wm. Mattison, BoxJjKO, New York.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Kiac Thomp
son's Eye-water. Iirugzist sell at c per bottle.
Buy stock in the Hawick Gold Mine. See adv.
An agreeable Laxative anfl TTrnvz Tojuc,
Bold by Druggists or sent by mail. 2jC, 60c
and $1.00 per package. Samples free.
Yft The Favorite TCOTH tCTTXa
IfLkW l3iforthe Teeth and Breath,2So.
0RATCI1ED TEI1 MONTHS
A troublesome skin disease caused
me to scratch for ten months, and was
cured by a few days' use of IN !
M. H. Wolff.
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Upper Marlboro, Md.
SWI
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I was cured some years ago of "White Swelling
In my leg by using W"l and have had do
symptoms of re t?W l turn of the dis
ease. Many prominent physicians attended
me and failed, but K. S. S. did the work.
PAUL. W. KIRJCPATRICK. JohMoo City. Tea.
TfC2esen Blood and SVm Diseases tr.iW free.
Swift Specific Compact,
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CoaraaptlTM ao4 people
ho & weak tan or Asttf
ma.stumJdnM Pico's Car tor
Consumption. It h cm
tkajukd. ft bu Dot Injur
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