Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-02-25

| d1tu VI AOI III NOuiI
have been more accurate prophecy.
| There are those who find it hard to be-
lieve that there is such place as hell,
| but you could go right out in any com
| munity 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 in
| to the ear of the hOneySuckle. Sears!
If there be none on the brow showing
where he struck her arriving home
from midnight carOusal, nevertheless
there are scars all up and down her in
jured 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 q veteran in any land
who has lost a limb in battle, our SYM
pathies are stirred; laut, oh, how many
have in the domestic realm lost their
life and yet are denied pillow Of dust
on which to slumber! Better enlarge
your roll of martyrs; better adopt
new mode of counting human scarifica-
TONS A broken bone is not half as
bad as a broken heart.
There are many who can in the same
sense that Paul uttered it say, 81 bear
in my body the marks of the Lord Je-
sus''-that is for the sake Of Christ and
his cause they carry scars which keep
their indenture 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 PauPs imperfect command Of
Greek syntax. But his history became
exciting on the road to Damascus,
where he was endorsed and blinded.
His conversion was a CONFUSION.
Whether that fall from the horse may
have left a mark upon him, know not,
but the mob soon took after him and
fogged and imprisoned and maltreated
him until he had scars more than
enough to assure the truthfulness of
his utterance, Il bear in my body the
uldIkS Ol TIE LUZ JESUS.
The Missionary.
All of Paul'S suffering was for Christ's
sake. He had intellectual powers which
could have achieved for him all world
ly successes. You see what he could do
in a courtroom when with eXtempOra-
neOuS speech he made the judicial
bench tremble, when on Mars hill he
COMPOUNDED the Athenian critics, when
he preached amid the excitement of q
tumbling penitentiary, 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 cour-
age of utterance, and his power Of il
lustration, and his capacity to move
audiences, and his spirit of defiance,
there was no height Of worldly power
he might not have gained.
What Hannibal was to an army,
what Draco was in making laws, what
Homer was to poetry, what Demos
themes was in power of persuasion,
what Socrates was to philosophy, what
HIschylus was to the drama, that Paul
might have been to all centuries. God
never before and never since made an
other human being like him. But with
all this capacity and opportunity Of
achieving worldly renOwn he turns his
back on home and becomes an exile, on
bounteous tables and eats his hard
crust by the roadside, on the pleasure
yachts that sailed the Mediterranean
and embarked on a freightbOat from
Alexandria, on scholars in Athens and
talks to fishermen. Instead of plaudits
of aroused and enthusiastic assem-
blages he addressed audiences that
talked back and asked insOlent queS-
lions and broke up in q riot; instead of
garlands flung at his feet they hurled
stones upon his head. Five times he
was scourged, at each whipping 80
strokes, the fortieth stroke spared not
from mercy, but because 40 strokes
were the SevereSt punishment the law
allowed, and they feared through count
ing wrong they might make it Al, and
so themselves be punished. Why, Paul
must have been SCARED all over, and
he only tells the plain truth without
any commentary when he declares, 81
bear in my body the marks of the Lord
Jesus" 1t was as much as to say:
''See those long scars? There is where
they whipped me. See you that ugly
indenture? There is where they stoned
me- See you that encircling scar on
my wrist? There is where they hand
cuffed me- See those curves around
my ankles? There is where they made
my feet fast in the stocks"
A Christian Army.
There are many who, like that apos-
tolic martyr, have on them the mark
of the Lord Jesus. There is the great
army of foreign missionaries, some
times ma1igned by dissolute American,
English and Scotch merchants, who at
Hongkong and Calcutta and CONSTANT.