Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-12

weight of great responsibilities, their vi
tality is being subtracted. In almost every
village of the country YOU find some bro
ken down State or National official.
There is woman who has suffered do
nestle injustice of which there is no cog
nizance. She says nothing about it. An
lnquisitor's machine of torture. could not
wiring from her the story of domestic woe.
Ever since the day of orange blossoms and
long white veil she has done her full duty
and received for it harShness and blame
and neglect. The marriage ring. that was
supposed to be a sign of unending affec-
ton, has turned out to be one link of
chain of horrible servitude. A wreath of
nettle and nightshade of brightest form
would have been more accurate prophe-
cy. There are those who find it hard to
believe that there is such a place as hell,
but you could go right out in any commu-
nifty and find more than one hell of domes-
tic torment. There is no escape for that
woman but the grave, and that. compared
with the life she now lives, will be an ar
Dor of jasmine and of the humming birds
song poured into the ear of the honey
suclSle. Scars! If there be none on the
brow showing where he struck her arriv-
ing home from midnight carousal. never
theless there are scars all up and down
her injured and immortal soul which will
be remembered on the day when there
shall leap forth for her aveneement the
live thunderbolts of an incensed God.
When we see veteran in any land who
has lost a limb in battle, our sympathies
are stirred: but. oh. how manv have in
the domestic realm lost their life and yet
are denied pillow of dust on which to
slumber! Better enlarge your roll of mar
tyrs; better adopt new mode of count
ing human sacriications. A broken bone
is not half as bad as broken heart.
There are many who can in the same
sense that Paul uttered it say, "I bear in
my body the marks of the Lord jesus
that is. for the sake of Christ and His
cause they carry scars which keen their
lndentnre through all time and all eter-
nifty. Do you thinl; that Paul was accur-
ate when he said that? If You have stud
led his career you have no doubt of it. In
his youth he learned how to fashion the
hair of the Cilician goat into canvas.
quiet trade, and then went to college. the
President of which was Gamalel, an in
stitution which scholars say could not have
been verv thorough because of what they
call PauPs imperfect command of Greek
syntaX. But his history became exciting
on the road to Damascus. where he was
unhorsed and blinded. His conversion was
. convulsion Whether that fall from the
horse may have left a mark upon him. /
linow not. but the mch soon took after
him and hogged and imprisoned and NAL
treated him until he had scars more than
enough to assure the truthfulness of his
utterance, Il bear in my body the marks
of the Lord Jesus
All We who bear in vour bodv the marks
of the Lord Jesus, have you thought what
use those marks will be in the heavenly
world? What source of glorious reminis-
cence! In that world you will sit to-
gether and talk over earthly experiences.
Where did you get that SCARF" saint will
say to saint and there will come back a
story of hardship and struggle and perse-
cution and wounds and victory through
the grace of the gospel.
"Where did you get thai mark?" says
another spirit to listening spirit. and the
answer comes: "That is a reminder of a
great bereavement, of desolated house
hold, of deep grave, of all the heart
strings at one stroke snapped altogether
But YOU see it is no longer a laceration,
for the wound has been healed, and my
once hereft spirit is now in companion
ship with the one from whom for awhile
was ,sseeparatea;
" mere ana you get that long, deep
scar: says another immortal to listening
immortal, and the answer comes; ' That
was was the awlul fatigue OF lifetime .strug
sie III attempting amld ADVERSE circ4m
stances, to achieve a lvellhood. For
fphltE years l was tlredIoh, SO tired!
pun put you see IL Is heaied wound, for
nave nave touhd rest at last Tor body and soul,
me complete rest, the everlasting rest
lnat heard OF before | came here as the
resI .haV remaiheth 1or the people OF
poa. -
come one IN % neaVen VIII say to Martyr
oohn rogers where dld you get that
.ar on your toot! and the answer Will
come oh; that was a burn L suffered
Mneh N,n the names OF martyrdom, were kin.
aied peneath me ignatlus; what IS that
marx on your cheek: On, that was
MADE py the paw OF the hon to which L
was throWh D., the order OF Iralan.
=, some one VII, say TO faul, Great apos-
VIei thaC must nave been deep cut once
Nthe mar marx winch .l,,,; l see on your neck.
ana faui says lhat was made by the
SWORD whlch struck me at my beheadment
on the road TO ostia' But we all have
scars sea-. OF some KIND and those are some OF
tne things we VIII talk oyer in the heav-
ennly world while we celebrate the grace
thaC maze us triumphant over all antaS-
0i,Tln' N ,.D. n.,
HoM'o VIVA! Is tue practleal use OF inns
suoJecC! IL ~, Is Ihe cultiVauon OF Christian
helolcs. IIc most OF US want TO say
!hlh9s ana 40 thlngs for God when there
ls no danser OF getting hurt. we are all
ready lof easy work; 1or popular work.
lor eompensatlns work, but we all greatly
@heeu @ more courage TO brave the world and
praVe satanic assault when there IS some