The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-02-28


his professional opportunities. No
man that was ever put to death by
sword or instrument Of torture was
more of a martyr than that man who
mas 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
n scars on the heart. but neverthe-
less are they scars, and God counts
them, and their reward will be abund-
ant.
The Unseen Sears.
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 a
tWlnge 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 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,
n want to enlarge Your sympathies.
There is a woman who has suffered
domestic injustice of which there is no
c~ognizance. She save nothing about it.
An inquisitor's machine of tortura
could not wiring from her the story OF
domestic woe. Ever since the CAV 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 a sign of amending 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 a more
accurate prophecy. 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 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 of
the honeysuckle. Sears! If there be
none on the brow showing where he
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 leap
forth for her Arrangement the live
thunderbolts Of an incensed God,
When we see a veteran in any land
who has lost a limb in battle, u SYM
pathies are stirred. But. oh, how many
have in the domestic realm lost thei1
life and yet are denied a pillow OF
dust on which to slumber? Better en-.
large our roll of martyrs. Better
adopt a new mode of counting human
ooStA llSdI1oAo. "A pIOhC11 bSliOg 10 III
half as bad as a broker heart.
Marks of Christian Service.
There are many VINO can, in tn,
same sense that Paul uttered it, say
Il bear in my body the, marks Of III
Lord J~esus'Tthat is, for the sake q
Christ and his cause they carry seal
which keep their indenture through a
time and. all eternity. Do you thin
that Paul was accurate when he sal
that? II you have studied his caree,
you nave no doubt of it. In his yout
he learned how to fashion the hair /,
the Cicilian goat into canvas, a uui,
trade, and then went to college. til
president of which was Gamaliel, a
institution which scholars say could ne
have been very thorough because {
what they call Paul's imperfect con
mand of Greek syntax. But his histor
became exciting on the road to Damas
Gus, where he was endorsed and blind
ed. His conversion was a convulsior
Whether that fall from the horse ma
have left a mark upon him 1 kno,
not. but the mob soon took after hir
and logged and imprisoned and nal
treated him until he had scars NOR
than enough to assure the truthfulnes
of his utterance, Il bear in my bod,
the marks of the Lord Jesus"
All Of Paul's sufferings was flo,
Christ's sake. He had intellectual pow
ers which could have achieved for hin
all worldly successes. You see VIVA
he could do in a courtroom when will
extemporaneous speech he made thu
judicial bench tremble; when on Mar:
hill he COMPOUNDED the Athenian crit.
les; when he preached amid the ex.
element of a tumbling penitentiary;
when in a storm at sea he took com
mand of the ship, the only one or
board cool headed. With his inspired
logic, and his courage of utterance, an6
his power of illustration, and his capa.
city to move audiences, and his spirit
of defiance, there was no height o.
worldly power he might not have
gained. 3 = Il
Army of Chrl.tIan Soldiers.
All We who bear in your body the
marks of the Lord Jesus, have yor
thought what use those marks will be
in the heavenly world? What source
of glorious Renaissance! In that world
you will sit together and talk oven
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 persecution