Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, MARCH l, 1901.

one bursting shell ana who could not roll
up their sleeve and show you one mark
Of battle. yet carry with them
weaknesses got in exposures to disease
along malarial swamps or from many
miles of marching. and ever and anon
they feel a twinge Of pain. each recur-
renee 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 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
l want to make out is that there are
scars which are never counted except as
God counts them. and | want to enlarge
your sympathies
There is n woman who has suffered
domestic injustice of which there is no
eognizance. She says 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 bios
SONS and long white veil she has done
her full duty and received for it harsh
ness and blame and neglect. The mar
rage ring. that was supposed to he a sign
of unending affection. has turned out to
be one link Of a chain Of horrible servi-
tude. A wreath of nettle and nightShade
Of brightest form would have been a more
accurate prophecy. There are those who
find it hard to believe that there is such a
place as he'll. but you could 90 right out
in any community and find more than one
hell of domestic torment. There is no
escape for that woman but the grave. and
that, compared with the life she now
lives. will be an arbOr of jasmine and
of the humming birds song poured into
the ear Of the honeysucklc Sears! If here
be none on the brow showing wke:e Re
struck her arriving home from midnight
carousal, nevertheless 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
Arrangement the live thunderbolts Of an
incensed God. When we see a veteran in
any land who has lost limb in battle,
our sympathies are stirred. But, oh
how many have in the domestic realm
lost their life and yet are denied a pillow
of dust on which to slumber. Better en-
large your roll OF martyrs. Better adopt
a new mode of counting human scarifca
tions. A broken bone is not half as baC
as broken heart
Marks of Christian Service.
There are many who can, in the SAM
sense that Paul uttered it, say, Il bea
in my body the marks of the Lord ,Te
/ sus"-that is, for the sake of Christ an,
/ his cause they carry scars which keel
/ their indenture through all time and al
/ eternity. Do you think that Paul wa
] accurate when he said that? Ii you hav
studied his career, you have no doubt 0
/ it. In his youth he learned how to fash
ion the hair of the Cilician goat into can
vas, a quiet trade, and then went to col
: lege, the president Of which was Cana
liel, an institution which scholars sa
could not have been very thorough bt
cause of what they call Raul's imperfeC
command of Greek syntax But his hi,
tory became exciting on the road to d.
/ mascus, where he was endorsed an
blinded. His conversion was a cOnvu
sion. Whether that fall from the hOrs
may have left mark upon him | knO'
not, but the mob soon took after him an
logged and imprisoned and maltreate
him until he had scars more than enOug
to assure the truthfulness of his ute
ance, Il bear in my body the marks ,
the Lord Jesus"
All Of Paul's suffering was for Christ
sake. He had intellectual powers whiC
could have achieved for him all world
successes. You see what he could do
a courtroom when with extemporaneol
speech he made the judicial bench trer
bic; when on Mars hill he cOnfound'
the Athenian critics: when he preach