The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-03-06

tunities. No man that was ever put
to death by sword or instrument OF
torture was more of a martyr than
that man who has been wrung to
death by the demands of official po-
sition. The scars may not be visible
for these are scars on the hraln'
and scars on the nerve and scars on
the heart, but nevertheless are they
scars, and God counts them ana 1ne1r
reward will be abundant.
In all lands there are veterans OF
war who may not have had their lace
scraoed with one bullet or their 1901
laned by one bursting shell and VINO
could not roll up their sleeve and
show you cne mark suggestive OF
battle, vet carry with them weak
nesses got in exposures to disease
along malarial swamps or from
many miles of marching, and ever
and anon they feel twinge of Pain'
each recurrence Of which is sharper
or more lasting, until after awhile
they will be captured for the tomb
by disorders which started 20 or 80
or 20 years before. And their scars
are all unseen by human eyes. But
those people are as certainly the VIC
tins of war as though they had been
blown up in an undermined for1sess
or thrust through with a cavalry
mans lance. What I want to make
out is that there are scars which
are never counted except as God
counts them, and I want to enlarge
your sympathies.
There are many who can, in the same
sense that Paul uttered it. say: Il bear
in my body the marks Of the LORD Je.
sus''-that is, for the sake OF Christ
and His cause they carry scars which
keep their indenture through all time
and all eternity. Do you think thai
Paul was accurate when he said that!
If you have studied his career, you have
no doubt of it. II his youth he learned
how to fashion the hair OF the ClIlclan
goat into canvas, a quiet trade, and
then went to college, the president OF
which was Gamaliel, an institution
which scholars say could not have been
very thorough because of what they
call Paul's imperfect command q
Greek syntax. But his history became
exciting on the road to Damascus
where he was unhorsed and blinded
His conversion was q conTuls1on'
Whether that fall from the horse may
have left a mark upon him I know not,
but the mob soon took after him and
dosged and imprisoned and maltreated
him until he had scars more than
enough to assure the truthfulness OF
his utterance: 'I bear in my body the
marks of the Lord Jesus"
All Of Paul's suffering was foz
Christ's sake. He had intellectual
powers which could have achieved fol-
lin all worldly successes. You see
what he could do in courtroom when
with extenporaneous speech he made
the judicial bench tremble; when on
Mars hill he confounded the Athenian
critics; s hen he preached amid the e1'
.itenent OF tumbling penitentiary;
when in a storm at sea he took com
uaud Of the ship, the only one on board
col headed. With his inspired logic
and his courage Of utterance, and his
power Of illustration, and his capacity
to move audiences, and his spirit OF de-
6ance, there was no height Of worldly
power he might not have gained.
What Hannibal was to an army,
what Draco was in making laws, what
Homer was to poetry, what Demos
themes was in power Of persuasion,
what Socrates was to philosophy. what
Aeschylus was to the drama, that Paul
might have been to all centuries. God
never before and never since made an
other human being like him. But with
Ill his capacity and opportunity OF
achieving worldly renown he turns his
back on home and becomes an exile, on
bourteous tables and eats his hard
crust by the roadside, on the pleasure
yachts that sailed the Mediterranean
and embarked on freightboat from
Alexandria, on scholars in Athens and
talks to fishermen. Instead Of plaudits
Of aroused and enthusiastic as
senblages he addressed audiences that
talked back and asked insolent ques.
tions and broke up in a riot. Instead
Of garlands flung at his feet they hurled
stones upon his head. Five times hs
was scourged, at each whipping 2:
strokes, the fortierh stroke spared not
from mercy, but because 40 strokes
were the seTerest punishment the lev
allowed, and they feared, through
counting wrong, they might make il
q and SO themselves be punished
Why, Paul must have been SCARED al
over, and he only tells the plain truth
without any commentary when he de-
clares: 81 bear in my body the mark,
Of the Lord Jesus" 1t was as much a,
to say: ''See those long scars? There
Is where they whipped me. See yer
that ugly indenture. That is where
they stoned me. See you that encir'
ling scar on my wrist? That is where
they bandcufed me. See those ugly
curves around my ankles? There /.
where they made ny feet fast in the
stocks"
There are many who, like that apos
soIic martyr, have On them the mari
Of the Lord Jesus. There is the grea'
army Of foreign missionaries, some
times naligned by dissolute American
English and Scotch merchants, whs a
Eong-Kong and Calcutta and Constan
tinople have had their wickedness re
proved by the pure home life Of thos'
missionaries. There is the great arm.
OF the ministers Of the Gospel, now il
Heaven. who, or small salaries ant
amid fatigues that slew them, Ser7e'
their day and generation. There is an
other great army Of private Christian
who, in Sabbath schools and in trac
sistribution and in humanitarian an
evapgelistic efforts have put their III
in sacrifice On the altars Of God. Their
is another army Of Christian invader