Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-03-02

we see veteran in any land who has
lost Il limb in battle. our sympathies are
stirred But OH how many have in the
domestic realm lost their life and yet are
denied pillow of dust on which 10 slum-
her. Better enlarge your roll of martyrs.
Better adopt new mode OF counting hui
man sterilization. \ broken bone is not
half aS bad as broken heart.
All of paul's Suffering WAS for Christ's
sake, lie had intellectual powers which
could have achieved for him all worldly
successes You see what he could do in
court room when with extemporaneouS
speech he made the judicial bench trem
| bile; when on Mars hill he confounded
the Athenian critics; when he preached
amid the excitement of Il tumbling nenl-
/ tertiary: when in a storm at sea he took
command of the ship, the only one on
board cool headed. With his inspired
logic, and his courage of utterance, and
his power of illustration, and his capacity
10 move audiences, and his spirit of de-
tance, there was no height of worldly
power he might not have gained.
Army of Christian Soldiers.
There are many who. like that apostolic
| martyr. have on them the mark OF the
! foreign missionaries. sometimes maligned
by dissoute American, English and
Scotch merchants, who at Hongkoug and
| Calcutta and Constantinople have had
their wickedness reproved by the pure
| home life of those missionaries. There is
| the great army of the ministers Of the
| gospel. now in heaven. who, on small sal
! aries and amid fatgucs that slew them,
hnt, a
| is another great army of private Chris
! tians who in Sabbath schools and in
| tract distribution and in humanitarian
! and evangelistic efforts have put their
| life in sacrifice on the affairs of God.
| There is another army of Christian inva-
| lids who lost their life in ovcrwork for
| the church and the worlds redemption.
! People call their illness neuralgia or nerv-
/ Gus prostraton or insomnia or paresis
| or premature old age. | call their all
ments sears. as my text calls them scars.
/ There may be sears on the memory, sears.
on the spirits, sears on the courage, sears
on the soul, as well as sears on the body,
and those invisible to the human eye are
| as honorable as those visible.
All We who bear in your body the marks
| of the Lord Jesus. have YOU thought
| what use those marks will be in the hcav-
| emily world? What source of glorious
| "reminiscences, In that world you will sit
! together and talk over earthly experi-
! enccs. Where did you get that SCARF
| saint will say To saint, and there will
! come back story of hardship and strug-
| gle and persecution and wounds and vic
! tory through the grace of the gospel. An
! other spirit will say to listening spirit,
Where did you get that hurt so plainly
marked" And the answer will be: oh,
| that was one of the worst hurts | ever
| had. That was a broken friendship. We
were i'll sweetest accord for years, togeth-
| er III JOY and sorrow. What one thought
! the other thought. We were David and
| Jonathan. But our personal interests.
/ parted, and our friendships broke never
/ to be renewed on earth But we have
made it all up here, and misunderstood
ings are gone. and we are in the same
! heaven, on ncighboring thrones, in neigh
| boring castles on the banks of the same
! river
Where did you get that mark" says
| another spirit to listening spirit, and the
answer comes: That is a reminder of a
! great bereavement. of Il desolated house
| strings at one stroke snapped altogether
! But you see it is no longer a decoration.
! for the wound has been healed. and my
| once bereft spirit is now in companion
ship with the one from whom for awhile
| | was separated" Where did you get
! that long, deep SCARF" says another i'm
mortal to listening immortal. and the an
| swer comes: That was the awful fatigue
/ y.F go
| adverse circumstances to achieve 4 live
| liho0d. For thirty years | was tircd--oh
SO tired. But you see it is a healed
wound, for | have found rest at last for
body and Soul. the complete rest. the
everlasting rest that remaineth for the
people of God. Some one in heaven will
say to Martyr John Rogers, Where did
you get that scar on your foot?" and the
answer will come, oh. that was burn
| suffered when the flames Of martyrdom
were kindled beneath me"' ''IgnatiuS
what is that mark on your cheek - "Oh.
that was made by the paw Of the lion to
which | was thrown by the order Of
Trajan" Someone will say to Paul.
Great apostle, that must have been
deep cut once, the mark which / see on
your neck" And Paul says That was
made by the sword which struck me Mt
my bcheadment on the road to Ostia"
But we all have scars of some kind. and
those are some of the things we will talk
over in the heavenly world while we cele-
brate the grace that made us triumphant
over all antagOnism.
Practical Application.
Now what is the practical use of this
subject? 1t is the cultivation of Chris
tian heroics. The most of MS want to
say things and do things for God when
there is no danger of getting hurt We
are all ready for easy work. for popular
work, for compensating work, hut we Nil
greatly need more courage to brave the
world and brave satanic assault when
there is something aggressive and bold
and dangerous to be undertaken for God
and righteousness. And if we happen 10
get bit what an ado we make about il
We all need more of the stuff that mar