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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 Tim nuftber of the North ArißicarFKevievf is to contain two synßosiums, one on the Health of American Women, by Dr. James R. 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HUNT, ATTORNEY AT BARNES VILLE, will practice In the counties compr Flint Judicial Circuit, and m the of the Sflte. oiliee up-stairs in Rank dec2 ► i win. s. A T TOR XE Y A T B ARNES VILLE, GA. Will practice in the counties of the Flint euit and in the Supreme Court of the State. sept'is 11. PERDUE, M. D. M £ARNE SVI LLE , Gli O R CmA H OFFICE J. W. Hightower & Co’s Residence on Thomaston street. BH W. 1A rigilirm Pin MOIX XAXD BUR GeM H at Gem Drpo Stoke—A. When not at my I can be found residence on Railroad St. hH tw~ Will use Magneto Electricity and sra when desired. lOJi^H^B | FOGG, (Office Barnesville, - - eT olin jVToyer, Ta9|| Having returned to Barnesville. round up stairs, near the post offlcc.VflHl warranted. Perfect satisfaction given <**B| me. • BARBER Robert f. miller and eli c. having consolidated the Barber busineVHHH the convenience of customers and wish to announce to the public that they ter prepared than ever to prosecute the Tonso*-’-"-’ art. Every thing will be kept in iirst class •pains will be spared to please all who patifHli Vze them. MILLER & STEWART** Mercian! Tali THE undersigned lias located in with a vletv to conducting a Merclianl Tailoringßusines* Is prepared to supply the demand for ISII EdiM and French Casslß Broadcloth, Doeskins, B andj such goods. Old clothing repaired, cleaned ' and MADE ISTEAV. In snort everything In the tailoring line will be Promptly Supplied ’ { A TEST OF SKILL AND WORKMANSHIP Is respectfully asked and Satisfaction Guaranteed. Call at the room opposite Gazette office, In *'lck building. Respectfully, jans-ly C. H. CORBIN. Notice- . _ All the persons Indebted to the estate of Ben-JI jamin Trice deceased are hereby requested present their accounts in accordance with thcH law. And all who are indebted to the estate* will please come toward ana settle. C. T. TRICE.* Administrator octl9.