Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 28, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 December 1892 — Page 4

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THE EAR AND THE HUSK. ilev. T. DeWitt Ts Imago Finds a New Parallel. * The Bndjr end Haul of Man Typified by the Ear of Corn In the Iluek— li the Ear Ripe for the Master T The following discourse wns delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage in the Brooklyn tabernacle from the text: As a shock of com comoth In In his season.— Job ra. This is the time of the year for husking corn. If yVSu have recently been in the fields of Pennsylvania, or New Jersey, or New York, or New England, or in any of the country districts, you know that the corn Is all cut. The sharp knife stuck through the stalks and left them all along the fields until a man came with a bundle of straw and twisted a few of these wisp) of straw into a band, and then, gathering up as much of the corn ns he could compass with his arms, he bound it with this wisp of straw, and then stood it in the field In what Is eallod a shock. There are now at least two billion bushels of corn either standing in the shock or having been already husked. The farmers gather, one day on one farm, and they put on their rough husking apron, and they take the husking peg, which is a piece of iron' with a leathern loop fastened to the hand, and with it unsheath the corn from the husk and toss it into golden heap. Then the wagons oome along and take it to the corncrib. - • * About corn as an important cereal or corn as a metaphor the Biblo is constantly speaking. Yon know about the people in famine coming to buy corn of Joseph, and the foxos on fire running into the “standing corn,” and about the oxen treading out the eorn, and about the seven thin ears of corn that in Pharaoh’s dream devoured the seven good ears, and the “parched coni” handed to beautiful Ruth by the harvesters of Bethlehem, and Abigail’s flvo measures of “parched corn” with which she hoped to appease the enemies of her drunken husband, and David’s description of tho valleys “covered over with corn,” and “the handful of corn in the earth,” and “the full corn in the ear," and Christ's Sabbath morning walk through corn fields, and tho disciples “plnoking ears of corn,” end so I am not surprised to find cornliusklng time referred to in my text: “As a shock of corn cometli in in liis season.”

4IUU TJYIMIJf irtf uu uurav »» u>» were born In the country comes the remembrance of buskins' time. We waited for it us for a gala day of the year. It was called a frolic. The trees for the most part having shed their foliage, tho farmers waded through tho fallen leaves and came through the keen morning air to the gleeful oompany. The frosts which had silvered everything during the night began to melt off the top of the corn-shocks. While the farmers were waiting for others, they stood blowing their breath through their fingers, or thrasing thefr arms around their body to keep up warmth of circulation. Roaring mirth greeted the late farmer as he crawled over the fence. Joke and repartee and rustic salutation abounded. All ready, now! The men take hold of the shock of oorn and hurl it prostrate, while the moles and mice which have secreted themselves there for warmth, attempt to escape. The withe of straw is unwound from the corn-shock, and the stalks, heavy with the wealth of grain, are rolled Into two bundles, between which the busker sits down. The husklng-peg is thrust .in until it strikes the corn, and thon tho fingers rip off the sheathing of the ear, and there is a crock os the root of the corn is snapped off from the husk, and the grain disimprisoned is hurled up into the sunlight Tho air is so tonic, the work is so very exhilarating, the company is so blithe, that some laugh, and some shout, and some sing, and some banter, and some tease a neighbor for a romantic ride along the edge of the woods in an eventide, in a carriage that holds but two, and some prophesy ns to the number of bushels to the field, and others go into competition ns to which shall rifle the most corn-shocks before sun-down. After a while the dinner-horn sounds from the farmhouse, and the table is surrounded by a group of jolly and hungry men. From all the pantries and oeilars and the perch os of fowl on the place tho richest dainties come, and there is carnival and neighborhood reunion, and a scene which fills our memory, part with smiles, but more with tears, as we remember that the farm belongs now to other owners, and other hands gathor in the fields, and many of those who mingled in that merry husking scone have themselves been reaped, “like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.” There is a difference of opinion as to whether the Orientals knew anything about the oorn as it now stands in our,

Hems; but recent discoveries nave found out that the Hebrews knew all about Indian maize, for there have been grains of corn picked up out of ancient crypts and exhumed from hiding places where they were nut down many centuries ago, and they have been planted in our time and have come up -just such Indian maize as we raise in New York and Ohio; so I am right when I say that my text may refer to a shock of corn just as you and I bound it, just as you and I threw it, just as you and 1 husked it. There may come some practical and useful and comforting lessons to all of our souls, while we think of coming in at last “like a shock of corn coming in in Ills season.” It is liig h time that the king of terrors were thrown out of the Christian vocabulary. A vast multude of people talk of death as though it were the disaster of disasters, instead of being to n good man the blessing of blessings. It is moving out of a cold vestibule into a warm temple. It is migrating into groves of redolence and perpetual fruitage. It is a change from bleak March to roseate June. It is a change of manacles for garlands. It is the transmuting of the iron handcuffs of earthly inearcerflbn into the diamonded wristlets of a bridal party, or, to use the suggestion of ray text, it is only husking time. It is the tearing off of the rough sheath of the body that the bright and the beautiful soul may go free. Coming in “like a shock of corn cometh in in his season.” Christ broke up a funeral procession at the gate of Nain by ngpklng a resurrection day for 4 young man and his mother. And I Would that I could break up your sadness and halt the long funeral prooession of the world’s grief by some cheering and cheerful and view of ths last transition. We all knew that hnsking time was a time of frost Frost on the fence. Frost op the stubble. Frost on the ground. First on the bare branches of the trees. Frost in th« air. Frost on the hands of the huakers. You remember wo used to hide between the corn stacks so as to keep off the wind, but yon remember how shivering was the body and how painful was the cheek, and how benumbed But after awhile the sun was high up the frosts went

the chillinjr, the many of our hopes. It is far from being a south wind. It comes put of the frigid north, and when they -tfi away from us we stand bemnnbedln body and benumbed in mind and bonumed in soul. We stand among pur dead neighbors, our dead families, and we say: "Will we ever get over it?" Yes, we will get over it amid the shoutings of Heavenly reunion, and we will look baok to all theso distresses of bereavement only as the temporary distresses of husking time. “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy eometh in the morning.” "Light, and but for a moment," said the apostle as he clasped his hands, "light, and hut for a moment” The chill of the frosts followed by the gladness that eometh In "like a shook of corn eometh iu in his season.” Of course, the husking time made rough work with the ear of corn. The husl'ing peg had to be thrust in, and the hard thumb of the husker had to come down with the swathing of the ear, and then there was a pull and there was a ruthless tearing, and then a complete snapping off beforo the corn was free, and if the husk could have spoken it would have said: "Why do you lacerate me? Why do you wrench me?” Ah, my friends, that is tho way God has arranged that the ear and the husk shall part, and that is the way He has arranged that the body and son! shall separate. You can afford to have your physical distresses when you know that they are only forwarding the soul to liberation. Every rheumatic pain is only a plunge of thu husking peg. Every neuralgic twinge is only a twist by tho husker. Thero is gold in you that must come out Some way the shackle must be broken. Some way the ship must bo launched for heavenly voyage. You must let tho heavenly Husbandman husk off the mortality from the immortality. There ought to be great consolation, in this for all who have chronic ailments, since tho Lord is gradually and more mildly taking away from yon that which hinders your soul’s liberation, doing gradually for you what for many of us in robust health perhaps He will do in one fell blow at tho last At tho close of every illness, at tho close of every paroxysm, you ought to say: "Thank God, that is all past now; thank God, I will never have to suffer that again. Thank God, I nm so much nearer the hour of liberation. \ou will never suffer tho same pain twice. You may new pain in an old never the same pain nain does its work have place, twice. hut The

and then it dies. Just so many plunges of the crowbar to free the quifrrystono for the building. Just so muny strokes of the chisel to complete the statuo. Just so many pangs to separate the soul from the body. You who have chronic ailments and disorders are only paying installments that which some of us will have to pay in one payment when we pay the debt of nature. Thank God, therefore, ye who have chronio disorders that you have so much less suffering at the last. Thank God that you will have so much less to feel in the way of pain at the hands of the heavenly Husbandman when the “shock of corn cometh in his season.’’ Perhaps now this may be an answer to a question which I asked one Sabbath morning, but did not answer: Why is it that so many really good people have so dreadfully to suffer? You often find a good man with enough pains and aches and distresses, you would think, to discipline a whole colony, while you will find a man who is perfectly useless going about with easy d igestion and steady nerves and shining health, and his exit from the world is comparatively painless. How do you explain that? Well, I noticed in the huskiug time that the huskingpeg was thrust into the corn, and then there must be a stout pull before the swathing was taken off the ear and the full, round, healthy, luxuriant corn was developed, while on the other hand, there was corn that hardly seemed worth husking. We threw that into a place all by itself, and we called it •’nubbins.” Some of .it was mildewed, and some of it was mice-nibbled, and some of it was great promise and no fulfillment. All cobs and no corn. Nubbins! After the good corn had boen driven up to the barn we came around with the corn-basket aud wo picked up these nubbins. They were worth saving, but not worth much. So all around us there are people who amount to comparatively nothing. They develop into no kind of usefulness. They are nibbled on one side by the world, and nibbled on the other side by the devil, and mildewed all over. Great promiso aud no fulfillment All cobs and no corn. Nubbins! They are worth saving. Is! suppose many of them will get to Heaven, but they are not worthy to be mentioned in the same day with those who went through great tribulations into the kingdom of our

God. Who would not* rather have tne pains of this llle, the misfortunes of, this l ife—who would not rather ho torn, and wounded, and lacerated, and wrenched, and husked, and at last go in amid the very best grain of the granary, than to he pronounced not worth husking at all? Nubbins! In other words, I want to say toyou people who have distress of body, and distress in business, and distress of all sorts, the Lord has not any grudge against yon. It is not derogatory, it is complimentary. “Whom the Lord loveth He ehasteneth,” and it is proof positive that there is something valuable in you, or the Lord would not have husked you. You remember also, that in the time of husking it was a neighborhood reunion. By the great fireplace in the winter, the fires roaring around the glorious back-logs on an old-fashioned hearth, of which the modern stoves and register^ are only the degenerate descendants, the farmers used to gather and spend the evening, and there would be much sociality; but it was not anything like the joy of the husking time, for then the farmers came, and they came in the very best humor, and they came from beyound the meadow, and they came from beyoad the brook, and they eame from regions two and three miles around. Good spirits reigned supreme, and there were great handshakings, and there was earnival, and there was the recital of the brightest experiences in all their lives, and there was a neighborhood reunion the memory of which makes all the nerves of my body tremble with emotion a» the strings of a harp when the fingers of the player have swept the chords. The husking time was the time of the neighborhood reunion, and so Heaven will be just that. There they could come up! They slept in the old village churchyard. There they come up! They reclined amid the fountains and the sculpture and the parterres of a city cemetery. There they come up! They went down when ship foundered off Cape Hstteras. >me up from all sides—from Leld and out of the solid mnWestminster abbey. They They come up! All to their betaft.

and conspicuous Some of earth were such disagreeable Christians yon ooold hardly stand It in their preseuee. Now in Heaven they are so radiant you hardly know them. The fact is all their imperfection* hare been husked oft. They did not mean on earth to be disagreeable. They meant well enough, but they told you how sick you looked; and they told you how many hard things they heard about yon; and they told you how often they had to stand up for you in some battles until you wished almost that they had been slain in some of the battle* Good, pious, consecrated, well-mean-ing disagreeables. Now, in Heaven all their offensiveness has been husked off. Each one Is as happy as he can be. Everyone the meets as happy as he cau be. Heaven one great neighborhood reunion. All kings and queens, all songsters, all millionaires, all banqueters. God, the Father, with His children all around Him. No “goodby” in all the air. No grave cut in all the hills. Elver of crystal rolling over bed of pearl, under arch of ehrysoprase, into seas of glass mingled with fire. Stand at the gate of the granary and see the grain come in; out of the frosts into the sunshine, out of the darkness into the light, out of the tearing and the ripping and the twisting and the wrenching and lacerating and the husking time of earth Into the wideopen door of the King’s granary, “like as a shock of corn eometh in in his season.” “But.” says someone, “do you really think I would be at home in that supernal society if I should reach It?” I think you would. I know you would. I remember that In the husking time there was great equality of feeling among the neighbors. There at one corn-shock a fanner would be at work who owned two hundred acres of ground. The man who he was talking to at the next corn-shock owned but thirty acres of ground, and perhaps all that covered by a mortgage. That evening, at the closo of the husking day, one man drove home a roan span so frisky, so full of life, they got their feet over the traces. The other roan walked home. Great difference in education, great difference in worldly means; but 1 noticed at the husking time they all seemed to enjoy each other’s society. They did not ask any man how much property he owned or what his education had been. They all seemed to be happy together in those good times. And so it will be in Heaven. Our Father will gather His children around Him, and the neighbors will come in, and the past will be rehearsed. And some one _111 A ~ 11 _! .. A. J ill _11 1 -

n u* v» » *v> mwji MUV* »« v »» «»* »«*• vv»v brate it. And. some one will tell of great struggle, and we will all praise the grace that fetched him out of it. And some one will say: “Here is my old father that I put away with heartbreak; just look at him, he is as young as any of us!” And some one will say: “Here is my darling child that I buried in Greenwood, and all the after years of my life were shadowed with desolation—just look at her. She doesn’t seem as if she had been sick a minute.” Great sociality. Great neighborhood kindness. Go in and dine. What though John Milton sit down on one side and John Howard sit down on the other side? No embarrassment What though Charlotte Elizabeth sit down on one side and Hannah More sit down on the other side? No embarrassment A monarch yourself, why be embarrassed among monarehs? A songster yourself, why be embarrassed among glorified songsters? Go in and dine. All the shocks of corn coining in in their season. Oh, yes, in their season. Not one of you having died too soon, or haring died too late, or having died at haphazard. Planted at just the right time, jflowed at just the right time. Cut down at just the right time, husked at just the right time. Garnered at just the right time. Coming in in your season. Oh, I wished that the two billion bushels of corn now in the fields or on their way to the seaboard might be a type of the grand yield of honor and glory and immortality, when all the shocks come in. I do hot know how you are constituted, but I am so constituted that there is nothing that so awakens reminiscences in me as the odors of a cornfield when I cross it at this time of tho year after the corn has been cut and it stands in shocks. And so I have thought it mi^ht be practically useful for us to-day to cross the corn-field, and I have thought, perhaps, there might be some reminiscence roused in our soul that mightbe salutary and might he saving. In Sweden a prima donna, while her house in the city was being repaired, took a house in the country for temporary residence, and she brought out her great array of jewels to show a friend who wished to see them. One night, after displaying these jewels, and leaving them on the table, and all friends had gone, and the servants had

gone—OUC BUU1UICI uigun-one onw thinking and looking into a mirfror just in front of her chair, when she saw in that mirror the face of a robber looking in at the window behind her and gaiing at those jewels. She was in great fright, but sat still, and hardly knowing why she did so she began to sing an old nursery song, her years making the pathes of the song more telling Suddenly she noticed, while looking at the mirror, that the robber's face had gone from the window, and it did not come back. A few days after, the prima donna received a letter from the robber saying: “I heard that the jewels were to'be out that night, and I came to take them at whatever hazard; but when I heard you sing that nursery song with which my mother so often sang me to sleep, I could not stand it and I fled, and I have resolved upon a new and honest life." O, my friends, there are jewels in peril richer than those which lay upon that table that night. They are the jewels of the immortal soul. Would God that some song rolling up out of the deserted nursery of your childhood, or some song rolling up and out of the corn fields, the song of the huskers twenty or forty years ago, might turn all our feet out of tho paths of sin into the paths of righteousness. Would God that those memories wafted in on odor or song might start us this moment with swift feet toward that pleased place where so many of our loved ones have already preceded us, “as a shock of corn cometh in in his season." Post This Up. There is a good story told of old Dr. John Brown, of Haddington, a godly minister of the last century. Speaking to a farmer of his congregation who had a son desirous of entering the ministry, but somewhat lacking in balance and judgment, he said: “If the lad ha’ na knowledge, he may get that; if he ha’ na Hebrew and Greek, he may get them; if he ha’ na grace, he may get that; if he ha’ na experience, he may get th^abnt if he hu’ na common sense, he ca^na get that.” It would be well for ministers and churches to post this up in a conspicuous place and look at it often. For, as the poet saith: “The worst of madmen is a saint run mad." —There are five thousand deaconesses in Germany who give tholr lives to nursing and teaching among the poor.

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