With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . thejudgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the198 WHEAT AND CHAFF. 99 Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodlyshall perish. We find in this Psalm how the righteous are set forth, andhow the ungodly are compared to chaff. John the Baptist said ofJesus, Whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purgeHis floor and gatherHis wheat into thegarner; but He willburn up the chaffwith unquenchablefire. Now, whenyou have been in thecountry, you haveobserved th
With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . thejudgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the198 WHEAT AND CHAFF. 99 Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodlyshall perish. We find in this Psalm how the righteous are set forth, andhow the ungodly are compared to chaff. John the Baptist said ofJesus, Whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purgeHis floor and gatherHis wheat into thegarner; but He willburn up the chaffwith unquenchablefire. Now, whenyou have been in thecountry, you haveobserved the wheatgrowing in the you had beencareful to examine it,you would havefound that while thewheat is growing thegrain is enclosed in athin covering calledchaff, just the sameas Indian corn orsweet corn is en-closed by the huskswhich grow about it. So it is with us; while we are in this world,there are many things which are essential to our growth and well-being. They minister to our physical needs and supply our temporalwants. Although we cannot wholly dispense with these things. Threshing Grain with Flails. 200 WHEAT AND CHAFF. while we are in this world, yet they are not the sole objects of ourliving. The wheat does not exist for the chaff, or the husk inwhich it is enclosed, but the husks or chaff exist for the wheat. After a time, when the harvest comes, the farmer enters thefield and cuts down the wheat, and it is then taken to the barn orthreshing floor. Years ago, when I was a boy, farmers used tospend a large portion of the winter in threshing grain. They wouldspread it out upon the floor of the barn and beat it with a heavystick, which was tied so as to swing easily at the end of a longhandle. This was called a flail. Machines for threshing grainwere not then common, as they are to-day. When the farmerthreshes his grain, he does not do it to destroy the wheat, but simplyto separate it from the chaff. The Bible tells us that we must enter into the kingdom of Godt
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