Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 June 1893 — Page 6

gfr"...~ SEE THRESHING FLOOR. \ r ' & The Trinls of Life Likened Unto the ‘Threshing of Grain. tko*c on Whom the Greatest Trials Are Placecl are Those in Whom the Grain is Most Plentiful for the ^ Master's Grannrv. The following discourse was delivered by ltev.T. DeWitt Taluiage in the Brooklyn tabernacle on the subject of “The Threshing Machine,” the text being: Ftorthe fitches art1 not thrashed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin, hut the fitches are beaten out with a stag and the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is truised. because he will not over be threshing ii.-*-Isalah xxyiii., 27. 23. There are three kinds of seed mentioned: fitches, cummin and corn. Of the last wc all know. But it may be well to statc-that the fitches and the cummin were small seeds, like the earraway or the thick-pea. When these grains or herbs were to he threshed they were thrown on the floor and, the workmen come 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 flic floor, and the men would fasten horses or oxen to a cart with iron-derited wheels; that cart would be drawn around the threshing Uoor, and so the. work would be accomplished. Different kinds of threshing for different products. “The fitches arc n<A threshed with a threshing 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 bruited, because if will not ever be threshing it.”

" nc great thought t«hat the text presses upon our souls is that we all go through some kind of threshing process. The fact that you may be devotiug your life to honoarble and noble purposes will not win you anjr escape. WHberfofee, the Christian emancipator, was in h is day derisively called ' • 'Dr. Cantwell." Thomas ltabington Macaulay. the advocate of all that was good before he become the most eonspicti ousliistoriap of his day, was caricatured in one of the quarterly reviews as “Babbletongue Macaulay.” Norman McLeod, the great friend of the Scotch poor, was industriously maligned in all quarters, a-lthough on the day when he was carried out to his burial a workman stood and looked at the funeral procession and said: "If he J had done nothing for anybody more than he has for me, he should shine as the stars forever and ever.” All the small wits of London had their fling at John Wesley, the father of Methodism. If such men could not escape the maligning of the world, neither can yen export to get rid of the sharp, keen stroke of the tribulum. All who live godly in Jesus Christ must suffer persecution. Besides that, there are Hie' sicknesses, and the bankruptcies, and the irritations, a fid the disappointments which are ever putting a cup of* aloes to your lip. TlioSb wrinkles on your face are (hieroglyphics which, if deciphered, would make out a thrilling story of trouble. The.footxtep of the rabbit is seen the next morning on the snow, and on the white hairs of the iged are the footprints showing where swift trouble alighted. liven amid the joys and hilarities of life, trouble will sometimes break in. As when the people were assembled in the Charlestown theater, during the revolutionary war, and while they were witnessing a farce, and the aulicncc was in great -gratulation. the gunshot an advancing enemy was heard, siul the audience broke up in wild panic and ran for their lives, so oftimes while you are seated amid the joys and festivities of this world you hear the sannonade of some great disaster. A.ll (.lit fitches and the cummin and the soma must come down on the threshing jioor and be pounded. -My subject, in the first place, teaches us that it is no compliment to us if we raespe great trial. The fitches and the ciramu® on the threshing floor might look over to the conn on another floor □Bud say: ‘‘Look at that poor, miserable, bruised corn. We have only beeft a little pounded, but that has been almost destroyed.” Well, the corn, if it had lips, would answer and say: “Do been as much pounded as I have? It is because you are not of so much worth as 1 am; if you were you would be as severely run over.” Yet there are men, vvhrosmppo6C theV are the Lord's favorites simply because their barns ape 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 he the Lord's coin. You are but little pounded because you are but little worth, and she Bsrwised and pounded because she is the the reason you have not

DO£>t part oi nil Harvest. The heft of the threshing machine is according to the value of the grain. If you have not been much threshed in life, perhaps there is not much to •thresh! If you have not been much shaken of trouble, perhaps it is be■caase there is going to be a very small yield. When there are plenty of blackberries the gatherers go out with large boskets; but when the drought has alemost consumed the fruit, then a quart ; measure will do as well. It took the ■venomous snake on Paul's hand and tthe pounding of him with stones until Jhe was taken up for dead, and the jamimirig agaip^t hinh of prison gates, and vthc. liphesian vociferation, and the ••skinned ankles of the painful stocks, ®nd the foundering of the Alexandrian corn-ship, and the beheading stroke of •the Roman sheriff to bring Paul to his proper development. J t was not because Robert Moffat and Tindy Rachel Russel and Frederick rOberlin were worse than any other people that they had to suffer, it was because they were better, and Hod wanted to make them best. Ry the carefulness of the threshing you mav always conclude the value of the fjrahi. Next, ray text teaches us that, t«od ^proportions our tr ials to what we can

! ' i i bear. The staff 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!” Kut you did bear it. God would not have sent it upon you if lie did not know that you could bear it. You i 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 t^irob too sharp. The perplexities of your earthlv business have not in them one tangle too intricate. “Well,” yop saj', ‘-‘if ,1 could choose my troubles I would lie willing to be troubled.” Ah, my brother, then it would not lx? trouble. You would j choose something that would not hurt. and unless iji hurts it does not get i sanctified. Your trial, perhaps, may [ .lx? childlessness. You are fond of children. You sjiy: “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 into the arms of my affections?” You say: “Any other trial but this.” Your trial, perhaps, may be a disfigured countenance, or a face that is easily caricatured,'and you say: “Oh, 1 could endure anything if onlv I was good looking.” And your trial, perhaps. is a violent temper, and you have to drive it lake six unbroken horses amid the gunpowder -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 is .-asthma, and ijt is such an exhausting thing to breathe.” Your trouble is a husband, short, sharp, snappy and cross about the house, and raising a small riot because a button is off. How could you'know the button is off? | Your trial is a wife ever in contest with , the servants, and she is a sloven. Though she was very careful about her appearance ip your presence once, now she is careless because she said her fortune is made. Your trial is a hard sehool lesson you can not learn, and you have bitten your finger-nails until they arc a sight to behold. Every

Doav nas 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 be complaining: all this time against God? "Who manages the affairs of this world, anyhow? Is Jit an iniinite Modoc, or a Sitting Hull savage? or an omnipotent Nana Sifhib? No; it is the most merciful and glorious and wise Being in all the universe. You can not teach Omnipotence anything. You have fretted and worried almost enough. Do yon not think so? Some of you are making ! yourselves ridiculous iu the sight of the aiSgels. Here is a naval architect, i and hi draws out the plan of a ship I of many thousand tons. Many workmen unengaged on it for along while. The ship is done; and some day, with : the flags up and the air gorgeous with hunting, 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 15as ! made with his own jack-knife; ‘and he says: "Ilcrc, my boat is better than yours. Just look at this jib-boom and ; these weather cross jack braces;” and j he drops his little boat beside the : great ship and their is * a roar j of laughter on the docks. Ah, j my friend, that great ship i is your life as God planned it—vast, | million-tdr.aed, ocean-destined, eter- ; nity bound. That little boat is your life as you are trying to hew it out, j and fashion it, and launch it. Ah, do not try to be a rival of the great Jehovah. God is always right and in nine cases out of ten you' are wrong, lie qends 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 threshing-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 lias dropped from the stalk. The farmer comes with his fork and tosses up the straw; and he sees that the straw lias let go the grain, and the grain U thoroughly threshed. So God. Smiting rod and turning wheel, both cease as soon as we let go. j We hold on to this world with its pleasures, and riehes, and emoluments, and our knuckles are so firmly set that ! it seems as if we could hold on forever. , God comes along with some thresh- j ing trouble and beats us loose, i We started under the delusion that this was a great world. We learned out of '.our geography that it ! was so many thousand miles in diameter and so many thousand miles in cir- j cumferenoe, and we said; "O mjy what a world!” Trouble came in ^after-life, and this trouble sliced off one part of

tne woria, ana ilai l u'uuuw miccu an another part of the world, and it has got to he a smaller world, and, in some of your estimations, a very insignificant 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 soul-possession. We .thought that friendship was. a great thing. In school we used to write compositions about friendship; and perhaps we made our graduating speech on commencement cbfy on friendship. Oh! it was a charmed thing; hut 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-comes 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; hut we .have learned that a ! mortgage may be defeated by an un- ! known previous incumbrance; that signing your name on the hack of a note may he your business death warrant; that a new tariff may change the 1 current of trade; that a man may be

I j rich to-day and poor to-morrow. And I God, by all these misfortunes, is trying i 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 I we hold on. And He sends over us the | iron wheel of misfortune; but we hold ! on. There are men who keep their grip ; this world until the last moment, who suggest to me the condition and conduct I' of the poor Indian in the boat m the Niagara rapids, coming on toward the | fall. Seeing that he could not escape, \ a moment or two before he got to the ; verge of the plunge, he Kfted a wine bottle and drank it off. and then tossed the bottle into the air. So there are men who clutch the world, and they go down through the rapids of temptation and sin, and they hold on to the'very last moment of life, drinking to their eternal damnation as they go over and go down. Oh, let go! Let g»! 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 things on the earth. Let go! Depend upon it that God will keep upon yon the staff or the rod or the iron wheel until you do let go z'' Another thing my text teaches us is that Christian sorrow is going to have a sure terminus. My text says: •"Dread corn is bruised, besause He wil! not be ever threshing 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 threshing’ 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 more need of pounding. They never cry in Heaven, because they have nothing to cry about- There are ho tears of bereavement, for you shall have your friends all round about you. There are no tears of poverty* because each on£ sits at the King's table and has his own chariot of salvation 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 np splint for the broken arm. but the' pulses throbbing with the health of the eternal God in a climate like our June before the blossoms or our gorgeous October before the leaves scatter. In that land the souls will talk over the different modes of Ijhreshing. 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 leviathan, and Paul the elmwood whips with which he was scourged, and Eve will tell how aromatic Eden was the day she left it, and John Rogers will tell of the smart of the flame, and Elijah of the fiery team that wheeled him up the sky-steeps, i and Christ of the numbness and paroxysm and hemorrhage's of the awful crucifixion. There they are before the throne of God. On one elevation all those who were struck of the staff. On a higher elevation all those who were j struck of the rod. On a highest eleva- i tion and amid the highest altitudes of j Heaven, all those who were under the wheel. He will not ever be threshing it. . j Oh! my hearers, is there not enough salve in this text to make a plaster large enough: to heal all your wounds? W hen a child io hurt, the mother is very apt to say to it: ‘‘Now, it will soon feel better." And that 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 sarrowlesss They will wear black; you will wear white. Cypresses, for them; palms for you. g ,You will say: "Is it possible X am here? Is this Heaven1? Am I so pure now I will never do anything wrong? Am I so well that I will never again be sick? Are these companions so firm that they will never again be broken? Is that Mary? Is that John? Is that my loved one I put away into darkness? Can it be that these are the faces of those who layso wan and trmaciated in the-back room, on that awful night dying? Oh, how radiant they are! Look at them! How radiant they are!

"Vt hv, how-unlike this place is from what I thought when I left the world below. Ministers drew pictures of this land, but how tame compared with the reality! They told me on earth that death was sunset. No, no! It is sunrise! Glorious sunriee! I see tho light now purpling the hills, and the clouds flame with the coming day."’ Then the gates of Heaven will be opened, and the entranced sovil, with the acuteness and the power of the celestial vision,will look ten thousands of miles down upon the bannered procession—a river oif shimmering-splendor —and will cry: ‘"Who «re they?” And the angel of God, standing- dose by, will say: “Don’t you know who they are?” “No,” says the entranced soul, “I can not guess who they- are.” The angel will say. “I will tell you, then, who they are. These arc they who came out of great tribulation, or threshing; and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Latab.” 6fa! that I could administer some of these drops of celestial anodyne to i those nervous and excited souls. If yflia would take enough of it it would cure all youupangs. The thought that i you are going to get through with this I after awhile, all this sorrow and all this trouble. We shall have a great many grand days in Heaven, but I i will tell you which will be the grandest day of all the- million ages of Heav1 en. You say: “Are you sure you- can I tell me?” Yes, I can. It will be the day we get there: Some say Heaven is growing more glorious. I suppose it is; but I do not care much about that. Heaven now is good enough for ; me.

REPUBLICAN reorganization. The Badly Unsettled Condition of the G. O. P. Slugs the November election of 1S93 the republicans have been in a somewhat dazed condition, and their efforts pull themselves together and to get their bearings have not been crowned with any very brilliant success. They appear to be at one in the opinion that something ought to be done; but what to do and how to do it, are.points with reference, to which there is a lamentable difference of opinion. There is a widespreau impression that the republican party must turn over a hew leaf. Hut, in order to determine what to do. it is thought necessary to decide where it has erred in the past. In order properly to treat the wound, it is desirable to know what hit it. A case is recorded where a physician mistook, the peck of a hen for the bite of a rattlesnake, and thereby brought himself and his art into ridicule. •Jut. after all, the blunder was safer-than the opposite one of mistaking the injection of a deadly poison into the veins for a mere scratch. Republicans find among themselves a singular difference of opinion. They cannot agree whether their party has been too virtuous or too vile for the popular taste. In view of the history of the party this difference is quite unaccountable, but there is abundant evidence of its existence. To do the leaders justice, they are willing to seem either better or worse if they can win votes by it. A candidate for a certificate as teacher of a public school, when asked whether he believed the earth to be round or flat, not feeling sure of his ground, avowed his willingness to teach either round or flat, as the trustees might direct. In like manner the re

puuuciiu iciiuers vvuuiu ut: reitu^ cnucr to seem virtuous, or to espouse vice, if they could only decide which course would bring them the greater number of votes. Mr. Clarkson, it will be remembered, has steadily held to the theory that the republican j)arty is too good for an unregenerate world. Its austere morality, its intolerance of cakes and ale, in his opinion, repel all but the few that love the straight and narrow road, and leave it in the minority. There are others, however, who are of a very different opinion. These last are aware that it has mixed greed in heroic doges with homeopathic measures of godliness, has paraded hypocrisy for holiness, has cultivated corruption, condoned crime, and in many ways provoked the wrath of the people which fell upon it so unsparingly. This element believe that the only thing to do now is to reform, or, at least, to assume r. virtue if they have it not. They wish, to see the party aspire to a higher plane by putting forward better candidates, and ignoring the ways of machine politicians. In this way they hope to purchase a return- of popular favor. Of this class is the republican club of Massachusetts,' which has just sent out a remarkable circular, from which thefollowing is an extract: "By taking part in your caucuses, and thusattending to your duty as citizens, you v,-ill also, do much to insure the triumph of your principles and the election of your candidates at the polls, for there are many in this commonwealth who are at present but little bound by party ties in state affairs, and who will vote oniy for candidates whom they know to be of high character and without reproach, and w ho. having teen nominated by the people, are in touch with them and have no promises W redeem to individuals far political services. The reorganization of tlse republican party is-doubtless necessary, but how is it to be accomplished while such differences- of- opinion exist among its members? If the virtuous people of the republican elub of Massachusetts succeed in,nominating: a candidate who has "no promises to redeem to individuals,'’ how are- those, individuals who make such promises a condition of their support to be • ‘placated?” Questions such as this make the tack, of reorganizing the party for future conflicts one of much difficulty: —Louisville CourierJournal. ._ “CAUCO CHARLIE’S" FAILURE. A Strung- Arraign me a.', of the Late Kcpubliean- Treasurer. The- failure of a bank owned and managed by “Calico Charlie” Foster^ ex-secretary of tire- treasury, surprises no one. Why should it?’ Why should a muni who made in theconduct of the United States treasury the momentous and disastrous blunders from which the country is now -suffering, and must continue to suffer fbrmany years to come, be able to-carry on bis own ^ffaios. with any distin* guished success? Faster ran the United States treasury as-if it were a gambling establishment. Ike- lay awake at night devising schemes, for squandering the public money, and tlie present stress of the national treasury, consequent from, the continuous exportation of gold, isentirely due to his. Dolicy.

Under Fosters- regime such wanton; legislation as. the McKinley bill, theSherman silv.ec-aei and the unspeakable corruptions o£ the pension bureau had an easy time of it. Anything like order, economy, mere decency in the public expenditures, was apparently beyond “Calico.Charlie’s” ken. H e-was perhaps the: most incompetent and. most ignorant official that ever, held the office dignified by such men as. Alexander Hamilton, Hugh McCullough and William \Y indoin. It seems to be expected that public prints shoudd express, the sorrow of their owners and editors for the misfortune that has come upon Foster. As personally he may be a very good man, we have no hesitancy in adding our voice to this inane chorus of sympathy; but that does not moderate our opinion that Foster was an utterly vicious official, who probably conducted his own financial affairs with as little ability and prudence as he did those of the nation.—Illustrated American. ' -The convention of republican clubs which met recently thrashed around in vain for some vitalizing issue on which to continue the existence of the republican party. The only one which seems to remain‘to them, which they did not have the courage to tackle, is the crinoline issue. — Louisville Courier-J ouraaL

j CLEVELAND'S FOREIGN POLICY. The Democratic Administration Working on Jeffersonian PrinciplesThe latest reports from Hawaii show that Mr. Cleveland is still carry'ng out his thoroughly American and thoroughly democratic policy of non-interven-tion in the domestic affairs of our weaker neighbors. Ur. Blount has given the provisional government to understand that American newspaper correspondents in Honolulu must not be arrested an«J. punished,for what appears in American newspapers, but he has taken no part in the eontrove-sy on the islands and is doing nothing whatever to promote the trouble, which, as is now well 'known, was originally due to the intrigues of persons connected with the Harrison administration. The autonomy of these islands will j be maintained. They will remain independent of foreign control. We will not annex them, nor will we declare a protectorate. It will be enough simply to have it understood, as it is well understood now by the whole world, that the Monroe doctrine applies to them. , Sir. Cleveland's foreign policy is in every respect admirable. He has opposed himself to the policy of enj tangling alliances and intrigues which ■under Harrison threatened the counj try' with the gravest dangers. Had we gone on for another year without a change of this policy, we would have almost certainly had a foreign war of conquest and rapine, in which, to our lasting disgrace and to the final overthrow of democracy, we would have invaded and subjugated some one of our weaker neighbors. In opposing himself to this Mr. Cleveland represents the democracy of Thomas Jefferson—of government by consent of the governed; of opposition to subjugation; of helpfulness and neighborliness instead of rapacity and violence. We have a country so large already that any further acquisition of territory would be in every respect a disadvantage. If we acquire more territory, we must sooner or later abandon the

I republican form of government. It 15 ; not suitable for an empire, and %ve cannot make it so. What' do any of us know of the condition of our subjects m Alaska? We know that they are our subjects—more the slavesof the federal government than if they were personal chattels. We hear from timu to time that whole villages of them are carried off by starvation, and we know in a general way that all this country cares about in Alaska is what money can be got out,pf the n}ines and fisheries. But beyond this we know nothing and care nothing of these people for whom we are morally responsible since we have bought them as slaves in buying their country without their consent. But who will say that our form of government is suitable for them? And if it is not, who can deny that it was a crime for ns to buy them as it is a crime to hold them in subjection? As the country becomes more imperial in extent it becomes more difficult to maintain local self-government. Our territory already extends from ocean to ocean, and already in the course of its first century we have been obliged to fight a civil war which came near costing us the abandonment of the principle of consent and the restoration of the old barbaric rule of force. What folly, then, would it be to enter deliberately on a policy of subjugating new territory when it is certain that in so doing we would forfeit our own liberties. . Mx: Cleveland deserves the thanks of every patriotic American for what he has done to save the country from the gre^ danger that threatened it—the dangsr of rejecting the democratic principle, of finally abandoning the republican form and of rushing headlong into :» policy of imperialism.—St. Louis Republic. _ OPINIONS AND POINTERS. --The republicans seem to have a fondness for depleting public treasuries. They have made Ohio bankrupt. —Albany Argus. -As soon as Foraker and McKinley get their knives in proper condition the campaign of edge-ucation will begin.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. -rime enough has passed since the 4th of March to justify the remark that ex-President Harrison drops into retirement, with less curiosity as to how he does, it than any of his predecessors. Evens the space correspondents at Indianapolis are not -utilizing him to lengthen their "strings."—St Louis Republic.

-lion. Charles iostan was given the opportunity to go into the United States treasury as its secretary with the idea that he might put sustaining props under his tottering fortune. He made a dismal failure of the undertaking and mow has the hardihood to charge his failure upon the nnaneial course of the present administration. It is a clear case- oF political bunof&mbe gone mad.— Detroit Free Pres*. -Some of the republican organs are having spasrrs because President Cleveland "went ashing: on Decoration day.” President Cleveland did not go fishing on Decoration day. He only started on his journey to Hog island late in the afternoon. But it he had fished from morning till night he would have observed Decoration day far more [patriotically than the professional j blatherskites like that one who dese- ! crated the memory of (Ion, Grant at ! Riverside Park. —Louisville Coer terJournal. -Republicans, have confidence in Mr. Cleveland in this exigency because be has been fried in financial crises heretofore, and has always fully justified the trust reposed in hitjt He lias been on the safe side of 'tho money question sine® the beginning, and his recent utterances show that he occupies it still. All sound money men, irrespective of party relations, willyaSy around the administration in this emergency, and aid it in protecting the country’s credit and in defending its financial stability. »In the presence of any such peril as this party lines disappear, and regard for the national honor 1 and interests becomes paramount.—St. I Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.)

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