The Iola register., 1901-03-01

torture WIS more OF martyr tnHn
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 brain,
and scars on the nerve and scars on
the heart, but nevertheless are they
scars, and God counts them and their
reward will be abundant.
In all lands there are veterans of
war who may not have had their face
scraped with one bullet or their foot
lamed by one bursting shell and who
could not roll up their sleeve and
show you one mark suggestive of
battle, yet carry with them weak
nesses got in exposures to disease
along malarial swnmps or from
many miles of marching, and ever
and anon they feel twinCe of pain,
each recurrence of which is sharper
or more lasting, until after awhile
they win he captured for The tomb
by disorders which started 90 or 30
or 40 years before. And their scars
are all unseen by human eyes. But
those people are ms certainly the VIC
Tins OF war MS though they had been
blown mp i'm am undermined fortress
or thrust through with cavalry
mans lance. What | want to make
out is that there are scars which
are never counted except as God
counts them. and [ want to enlarge
vour svmpathies.
There are many who can. in the same
sense that Poul uttered H. say: "1 hear
in my body the marks of the Lord Je-
sus"-that is. for the sake of Christ
and His cause they carry sears which
keep their iudenturc through all time
and all eternity. DO YOU think that
Paul was accurate when he said that?
If YOU have studied his career. YOU have
no doubt of it, In his youth he learned
how TO fashion the hair of the Cilician
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 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 know not.
but the mob soon took after him and
hogged and imprisoned and maltreated
him until he had scars more than
enough to assure the truthfulness of
his utterance: 81 bear in my body the
marks of the Lord Jesus"
All of Paul's suffering was for
Christ's sake. He had intellectual
mowers which could have achieved for
him all worldly successes. You see
what he could do in a courtroom when
with eXtemporaneous speech he made
the judicial bench tremble; when on
Mars Hill he confounded the Atbenian
critics; Nhen he preached amid the ex.
,itement OF a tumblinp pepitentiorv.
when in n storm at sea he took com.
mand of the ship. the only one on board
ool headed With his inspired logic
and his courage of utterance. and his
power of illustration. and his canacitv
TO move audiences, and his spirit of de-
6ance. there was no heipht Of yorldlv
pover he might not have gained
What Hannibal was to an army
what Draco was in making laws vbat
Homer was TO poetry. what Demos.
themes was in mower of nersrasior
what Socrates was to pbilosopbv What
Aescbvlus was to tbe drama tbat porI
might have been to all centuries. God
never before and never since made an.
other buman being like him R,t ,,ith
all his capacity and opnortunitv ~
achieving worldly repowp he turns his
hacl, on home and becomes an eviIe on
bounteous tables and eats bis hard
ernst by the roadside on tbe ,leasvra
yachts that sailed the Neditarranaan
and embarked on n rreicbthoat from
Alexandria. on scholars in Athens and
to1l,s +o fishermen Instead ~ ,la,,5i.a
of oroused and enthusiastic as
.eubIoges he addressed audieroos .ta.
+,u,od bocl, and o.ked insoIant a,'as
tions and broke nm in riot trstoad
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