Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09


ment drops one. After thirty years of |
wifehood and motherhood the paths |
turns toward the setting sum- She |
cannot walk so far as she used to- |
Colds caught hang on longer than for |
merly. Some of the children are in
the heavenly world, for which they |
were well prepared through maternal
fidelity, and others are out in this
world doing honor to Christian an
ceStry
Martyrs All Around Us.
People think they must look for mar
tyrs on battlef1elds or go through his
tory to find burnings at the stake and
tortures on racks when there are mar
tyrs all about US. At this time in this
capital city there are scores Of men
wearing themselves out in the public
service. In ten years they will not
have healthy nerve left in their body.
In committee rooms. in consultations
that involve the welfare of the nation,
under the weight of great responsfbili-
ties, their vitality is being subtracted.
In almost every village of the country
you find some broken down state or ma
tional official After exhausting him
self in the public service, rough Amer1-
can politics kicks him out of congress
or cabinet or legislative hall, and he
goes into comparative obscurity and
| comparative want, for he has been
long enough away from home to lose
his professional opportunities. No
man that was ever put to death by
| sword or instrument of torture was
more of martyr than that man who
has been wrung to death by the de-
mands of official position. The scars
may not be visible for these are scars
on the brain and scars on the nerves
and scars on the heart. but neverthe-
| less are they scars, and God counts
them, and their reward will be abund-
ant
| The Unseen Scars.
In all lands there are veterans Of
war who may not have had their face
scraped with one bullet or their foot
| famed by one bursting shell and who
could not roll up their sleeve and show
| you one mark suggestive of battle, yet
carry with them weaknesses got in eX-
posures to disease along malarial
swamps or from many miles of march
ing, 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 so or 40 years before. And their
scars are all unseen by human eyes.
But those people are as certainly the
victims of war as though they had been
blown up in an undermined fortress or
thrust through with a cavalryman's
lance. What want to make out is
that there are scars which are never
counted except as God counts them,
and 1 want to enlarge your sympathies.
There is a woman who has suffered
domestic injustice of which there is no
cogniZance. She saws nothing about it.
An. inquisitor'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 re-
ceived for it harshness and blame and
neglect. The marriage ring, that was
supposed to be sign of unending af-
lection, has turned out to be one link
of a chain of horrible servitude. A
wreath of nettle and nightshade OF
brightest form would have been more
accurate prophecy. There are those
who find it hard to believe that there is
such place as hell, but you could go
right out in any community and find
more than one hell of domestic tor
ment- There is no escape for that
woman but the grave, and that, COM
pared with the life she now lives, will
be an arbor of jasmine and of the hum
ming birds song poured into the ear oi
the honeysuckle. Scars, If there be
none on the brow showing where he
r struck her arriving home from mid
| night carousal, nevertheless there are
scars all up and down her injured and
: immortal soul which will be remem-
: bered on the day when there shall leaI
r forth for her avengement the live
? thunderbolts of an incensed God
{ When we see a veteran in any lan6
: who has lost limb in battle, our sym
pathies are stirred. But, oh, how many
have in the domestic realm lost theil
life and yet are denied a pillow O
a dust on which to slumber? Better en-
large your roll of martyrs Better
? adopt a new mode of counting human
| Specifications A broken bone is no
@ half as bad as a broken heart
Y Marks of Christian SERVED
t There are many who can, in tn,
i same sense that Paul uttered it, say
: Il bear in my body the marks of tn
t Lord Jesus"-that is. for the sake o
n Christ and his cause they carry scar
Y which keep their indenture through al
n time and all eternity. Do you thinl
t that Paul was accurate when he eait
t that? If you have studied his career
: you have no doubt of it In his you'll
e he learned how to fashion the hair O
: the Cicilian goat into canvas, a quie