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W^^TALMAmnSASVRMQX.
hrran:
*9|* he morning light is breaking,
The Darkness dtsappeam—
Hod* of men are waking
Tu penitential tears.”
Bef >re the sermon Dr, Talmageex
pounucd passages ol the 800 t of
Job.
MI JECTOF THE BEK MON : “CORN-HLSK
ING TIME/’
Text—Job 5, 26: “Like as a
shock of corn cometh in bis sea -
son. ”
Going at forty miles an hour last
"Wednesday I caught this feermon. If
you have been in the fields of New
York, or BensylTania, or New En
gland, or almost auy-where the past
few weeks, you know that the corn
is a.l cut. The knite struck through
all the stalk, and they lay all along
the fields tdl someone came with
bundles of straw, and, twisting a
few wisps of these straws together
a band was made, and so much of
thecornasa man could compass
■with his two arms was fastened to
gether in what is called a shock. All
over the land you will find the corn
in that posture. In a few weeks the
neighbors will gather together ;'for a
few days coming to this neighbors
ficldand then fto that neighbor’s field
andthe roughhusking aprons will be
put on, and the husking-peg, a shard
piece of iron with a leathern loop fa*
tone 1 to the hand, will the
ears of corn, and they will be thrown
into golden heaps, and afterward, by
" a wagon, taken to the corn-crib. How
vividly comes up in the mind of
those of us who were born in th
country the remembrance of com
busting time! We waited for it at
the grand gala time of the year. It
was called a frolic. By that time
the woods had shed most of theid
leaves, aud the neighbors wader
through the fallen foliage as they
came on through the keen morning
to the gleeful company, The frost
which had silvered every thing in
the night was melting oft’ the top of
the corn shocks. Waiting for oth
ers* the men stood occasionally blow
ing their breath through their fingers
or thrashing their arms around them
to get up better circulation of blood.
There was roaring mirth in the fields
at some late farmer crawling over
the fence, Joke and repartee *h
rustic salutation bandied. All rea
dy now. The men lay hold the
shock of corn aud hurl it prostrate
> on the ground, and the moles
under
■MffWftptto
Rift-raw is ud|*iiid
Rand the stalks, heavy
of grain, are rolled intßwo
bundless, and the busker sits crown
between. The peg is thrust in until
the corn is reached andthe fingers
tear off the swarth of leaves, and
with a crack the root ear is se
vered from the husk, aSp thus dis
imprisoned tossed out into the sun
shine. Theair is so tonic, the
so exhilarating, the company so
biithe, that some laugh, some sing
some banter, some shout, some tell
stories of olden times, or tease each
other as to where they were
night all with Sunday clojJßjjS
in a carriage that would
two. Some prophesy the
to the field.
as tt^whyJ^shalL
down. After awhile the dinner-horn
sounls from the farm house, and the
table is surrounded by Jolly and hun
gry men. From all the pantries and
fromrf.ll the cellars the richest dain
ties me brought, and it is a time
carnival and neighborhood reuo*||
which fills our memorv somevwat
with smiles, but tear J be
cause the old farm-house now "be
long to other owners* and those fields
are gathered by other and
most of those who mingled in the
husking have themselves been
reaped. -Hake as a shock of corn
cometh in his season.”
There is some difßrenee of opin
ion-as to whether thw Orientals knew
any thing about the kind cf corn
now standing in our fields.
discoveries show that what we B
Indian maize was raised by the
brews, and some of the grain of tnße
oide#times found in crypts and ex
humed from hidden places have
been planted, and produce in Pales
tine just such corn as we liave in
Ohio and New York, so' that I feel
that I have a right to take my text
as referring to a shock of corn, shch
as you and 1 haye bound, such as
you and I
time that the .‘“King of Terrors’ be
turned out of the Christian’s vocabu
lary. It i* a simple fact that multi-a
tudes look upon as the
ter of disasters, when it is
man the blessing of bLessings*HH|
going out of the cold vestibulßß||j
the warm temple. It is migratißg
into groves of redolence and perpßJ
ual fruitage. It is sudden passage
from bleak March to rosy Junc. It
is an exchange of manacles for gar
lands, and the. transmitting of the
handcuffs of earthly iucarceration in
to the diamonded wrist of a bridal
company; or, as my tex* suggests, it
is only husking time, the taking off
of tiie sheath of the body from the
bright and beautitul soul—the com
ing in “like as a shock of corn cem
eth in in season,” Christ broke up
a funeral at the gates of Nain by a
resurrection-dav, made for one
young man and his mother: and I
wish I could break up the terrors of
the services and halt the long funer
al procession of the world’s grief by
some cheering view of th e last transi
tion.
Of course, the
the fields is a time of frost, I?Wst
on the fences, frost on the ground,
frost on tho fallen leaves, frost on
the hands cf the reaper. Wc hid
ourselves from the wind as well as
we could between the stalks: but
oh! how flushed the cheeks and how
shivering the bmly and how numb
the hands! Coldf sharp, penetrating
atmosphere! But after awhile the
sun was far up, and the frosts were
out of the air, and the hilarities
woke up the echoes. From one
shock of corn the sound weut up:
Ha! ha! ha! ha! and was answered
from those busy at another shock of
coin: ha! ha! ha! ha! may
not hide the fact that death nips
and chills and freezes many hopes
and is far from
south wind, Tt comes oii f
of the frozen noith, and we stand be
numbed under its power. Our
hearts break now over our dead cbil
dren, ouifdud companions, our dead
parents, am it seems as if we would
never get over it. Ah, we will get
over it, for the sun will be up, and
the joys and shoutings of reunion
will make us forget the past, ancwo
will look back to the temporary mlis
tress as only the frosts ot huskwig
time. “Weeping may endure for a
night, but jclLcometh in tlie morn
ing.” but for a mo
ment.” The chill of the frosts, fol-
the gladness, vdiich, “like
as a shock of corn, commL in in his
season.” A
Of course the work of the husker
on the car of corn seems rough. There
must be a sharp thrust of the point.
The hard thumb must be set on the
of the ear. There must be
a harsh blow tear and
a complete before the
grain swartliiufj
of speait out, it
might say: “Why must Ie lacerat
ed and torn and wrenched?” Oh,,
that is the \ra,y God has arranged!
that corn and husk must part, and!
thA is the way He hath arranged 1
tlwt body and soul must separate.
u can afford to bezu’ your physical
albients patently wlfen you know
tlXt it is going to fonvardyour soul’s
liberation. Each rheumatic pain is
a thrust of the husking peg. Each
twinge is a twist of the
hunter. There is gold in you that
must Ywu must get your
You must get your
ship for the heavenly voy
aseYou must let the great *husband
your mortality off your im-
You who have
HHRHEgIit to take encouragement
£.*rtliis that Gocl is doßg gradnal-
m milder work of
emanciptftion with jßn than with
blow are hurletL
h ill-*
nes^rpaiox^^^^Rßßfc^uy:
“Thank God so
of liberation is completed! I shair
have never to go through with that
again.” ever |has to suffer
the sametwice. It may be a
new pain in an old place, fcut each
pain does ics work and thyi dies.
It takes many plunges of
to loosen the quarry-sßie for
strorcs of the chisel to complete the
statue. It takes just so many pangs
for the soul to get rid of the body.
You are payiug in installments Ml
along that which some of us
have to render atflMce when we
to pay the debt
being gloomy when'"'you are sick,
know that you have so much less
wounding from the husban
man when you are “like the shock of
corn which cometh m in his sea
son. ”
Perhaps, now, this is the aowr
to a question which I asked last Sab-*
bath and left unanswered. Why is
it that somanygood people have to
sofearfully suffer?_They have enough
aches and pains and distresses of bo
dy, one would think to cti-cipline a
whole colony while some useless man
gol fcwith easy digestion and steady
nerlef and shining healtlMfttecade,
his exitout
paudpss. I is
i si o and g and
Bar,.while there were
Rat seemed worth Tiusking,
|nd they were thrown by themselves
and were called nubbins. Some of
them were mildewed; some of them
mice nibbled; some of them
tirelv uudevelcpid; some of
cobs and no corn. Nubbins! After
the valuable load of corn had been
driven to the barn we went round
and gathered up these miserable nub
thereart men all about us
who amount to nothing. They de
velop no usstul character. They are
nibbled of the world on one side and
nibbled of the devil on the #ther side
and mildewed on all sides. They pro
mise much aud fulfill nothing. “ All
cobs andno corn. They are not wortk
nothing, Nnbbins! They wil be
gathered up, however. Some of
them may reach heaven, but they
are of little value, They 7 are not t*
be mentioned in the same day as
those who though great tribulation
enter the kingdom of God. Who
would not rather be torn and lacerat
husked with the live ear and
go into the best part of the garner
than escape because y*ou are not
worth husking Nubbins!
I remember also that husking time
was one of neighborhood reunion. In
the winter, by the fire crackling on
the hearth, around the glorified back
log, in the great honest old-fashion
ed fire-place, of which the modern
stoves and heaters are only the ’ de
generate descendants, a small group
of neighbors would sometimes gath
er two or three families having come
to spend the evening, and there was
much sociality; but that was very
tame compared with the husking
time, when all the neighbors were
on tha place, and all of them in their
best nlood. They came up from the
other side of the meadow, and from
all parts for two or three miles
nround, and thegrandestgood hu
mor reigned, ajflLhe brightest pass
ages when all lives were rehemifi
ed, and there was a hearty
ot hands, and the joy of those old
husking time reunions makes all
the nerves in my body this moment
tremble with emMion like harp
strings when the Rgers of the play
ers sweep the chords. So krfuen is
to be a reunlbn. There come
up! They were buried in the old
village churchsy'ard. There they
come up! They have been reclining
amid the parteres, and festoons, and
sculptures of the city Rfemetary.
There they come up! jfrom the sea
where they have slept -ince the ship
foundered off Cape Matteras. All
the imperfections wliwh hid their
husked off, Their physiol
HBmts husked off. Their spiritual
despondencies husked off. All their
himkrances for usefulnes off.
Til fgrain the golden grain, the God
fasnioned grain visible and conspicu
ous. Some Christians who on earth
were so disagreeable that you could
hardly endure them, will be so radi
ant you would hardly know them
having got the husks off. On earth
they were always saying disagreeable
•things without meaning to. They
u how bad you looked, or
hey had heard somebody say
b you, or how many battres
they had to fight for you, making
you almost wish tlioy had been kill
ed in the battle, and good
pious, well-meaning disagreeable.
But now they come iu*all the husk3
off. Every one happy* hapggp can
be, and finding every owe else just
as happy. Heaven one great neigh
borhood; all known to all. all kings
and queens, all couquerors, all mil
lionaires, all banquetere. The great
father wilh His children all around
Him, and no good-by in all the air,
cut iu all hillsjrivers of
beds of pearl
into
seas of glass,with fire.
Stand at the door of TR garner and
see the grain come in. Out of the
frost into the sunshine. Out of the
darkness into the light, Out of the
tearing and the ripping of the husk
ing-time into the wide open doors of
the King’s granary. “Like as the
shock of corn cometh in in his sea
son.”
Yes: It will be one great sociable
one great husking-time. No one
feeling himself too big to talk with
another. Archangel willing to lis
ten to smallest cherub. No cliques
sitting around in corners whiipering
*to each other. Noßlted caste to
keep out of one heßenly mansion
the citizen of another habitation.
David taking on no airs as a giant
killer. Joshua making no one halt
till he he made the
sun and halt. Paul making
no-assurajmon over humblest preach
er of righteousness. Naaman,.the Sy
rian commander, not more honored
than the Israelitish maid, who told
him where lie could find a good doc
tor. My soul, wlfit a country,
where the humblest man is a king
aud the poorest woman a cjueen,
the Btnalkit house a palace, and the
shortesJßetime an eternity. But
the best thing about the whole mat
ter is we may all go there. “Not I,”
says a man standing away back, un*
der the galleries. Yes, you! “No!” (
says a man who has not been in
church before for twelve years, .and
a irfyik
for fifty years has been as bad as 1
can be, all my thoughts wrong, all
my actions wrong.” Yes, you! Plcn*
tv of monopolies on earth, monopol
istic railroads, monopolistic tele*
graph companies, monopolistic grain
dealers, but no monoply in religion.
Salvation through Christ for all who
will take it. Of course you can not
get to Charleston by taking asteamer
to Portland, nor to heaven by geing
in thejopposite direction. Believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved. “But do you really
think,’’ says one, *T would feel at
home in such supernal company!”
Yes, I think you would. In the old
husking times I remember that there
was wonderful equality <m feeling.
One farmer who sat at oire shock of
corn owned 200 acres* of land, and
the farmer sat at the next shock of
corn owned only thirty acres. One
man drove home that night with
two roau horses; which, frisking in
the cool air, could h*dly be kept
rom getting their the tra
ces, while his neighbor went home
afoot. But the neighbors, though
differing widely iu education; wide
ly in means, all enjoyed each others
society in the grand old times of
husking. So we shall come round
our Father’s table in heaven, and
the neighbors will all be there, and
we will talk over the past. If anj 7
one of us had a victory we will all
celebrate it, aud if any one o. us had
a struggle we will all praise the grace
that brought him out of it, aud some
one will sav: Here’s my old father
that I put away in Greenwood with
great heart-break. How young he
looks.” and someone will say;
“Here,s my child which I put away
with a deaolation that shadowed all
my after years, aud now see, she
does not look as if she had
been sick a day.” Go in and
though John Milton
sit side you and John How
ard on the other. Go in and dine,
though Charlolß Elizabeth sit on
one side and Hannah Moore on the
the other. A monarch yourse If,
why should you be abashed amon g
monarch#? A singer yourself, why
should you be to sit among
the other glorifießftmgstert? All of
you,like shocks or corn,having come
in the right- season, not one of you
having died too soon or too late, or
by hap-hazzard, but your last hour
rightly arranged the good hus
bandman. Planted aßthe righ4
time- Plowed at the right time. Cuß
otlat the’right time. Husked at*
thWighttime Housed at the right
time, As the shock of corn full ripe
cometh in his season, let the twoi
billion bushels of corn now Beld ita
the shocks waiting for the Buskers
in our American corn-fields be a
type of the vast yield for glory. Idfti
or and immortality when all Vie
shocks comepi- Ido not know how
you may constituted, but nothing
on earth arouses in me such „ remin
iscenes as the odors of the corn-field
if I tA corn has been cut
and
it might be well for us because of the
practical suggestions to cross a corn
fleld-tO'day,
t.any years ago a prima-donna in
den, while her home in the city
was being repaired, took a house in
the had her great array
of jewels out. One evening
she sat thinking, and looking into
a miri’M saw the face of a robber
a window behind h,er at
the valuable jewels on She
great fright and know
she did, began to sing and
song,her fears giving un
usual pathos to the notes. Suddenly
the'robber face vanished. In a few
a letter from the
that he heard her jew
els were to be brought out,and he had
came to take
heard her sing song,
which his mother hßWften rung to
him, not stand it, and he
hed fle4|Rad promised to start for a
good treasures than
those of the prima-donna anrfin the
of the immqßal soul.
Would that some scene ef the past,
rollingoft of the ndrsery of your
scene of the husk
ers rolling up out of the grain fields
of forty or fifty # years ago, might
come up to all who are in sin and
startj r ou fora new life?WliouM that
sil tllfe gracious memories might turn
our feet iu haste toward that
place where so many friends
have already in
“as the shock of corn, fuW^e,com
eth in Bis
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