The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-02


comparative want. for he has been
long enough away from home to lose
I his professional opportunities No
man that was ever put to death By
sword OF instrument Of torture was
more Of a martyr than that man who
has been wrung 10 death By the de-
mands Of official position The scars
may not be visible. for these are scars
on the brain and sears on the nerves
and sears 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
scraDed with one bullet or their foot
lamed 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 OF from many miles OF march
ing, and ever and anon they feel q
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 80 OF 40 years before. And their
sears are an 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 cayalryman's
lance What I want 10 make out is
that there are sears which are never
counted except as God counts them.
and want 10 enlarge your sympathies,
There is a woman who has suffered
domestic injustice OF which there is no
cognizance. She saws nothing about 1t.
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 fun duty and re-
ceived for it harshness and blame and
neglect The marriage ring. that was
supposed 10 be a sign OF unending ar
fection. has turned out to be one link
OF a chain Of horrible servitude. Al
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 a place as hell. but you could 90
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. viii /
be an arbor Of jasmine and Of the hum
ming birds song poured into the ear Of /
the honeysuckle. Scarsi II there be
none on the brow showing where he /
struck her arriving home from mid
night carousal, nevertheless there are /
scars an up and down her injured and /
immortal soul which will be remem-
bered on the day when there shall lean 4
forth for her Arrangement the live /
Of an incensed God. /
When we see a veteran in any land /
who has lost a limb in battle. our SYM /
Dathies are stirred But. Oh. how many I
have in the domestic realm lost their
life and yet are denied a pillow of
lust on which to slumber? Better en-
large your roll Of martyrs. Better
adopt a new mode OF counting human
'acrihcations A broken bone is not
half as bad as a broken heart.
Marks Of christian service.
There are many who can. in the
same sense that Paul uttered ID. say
I bear in my body the marks OF the
Lord Jesus that is. for the sake of
Christ and his cause they carry scars
which keep their indennIe. through an
ime and an eternity. DO you think
hat Paul was accurate when he said
hat? II YOU have studied his career.
'Ou have no doubt Of &C. In his youth
be learned how to fashion the hair Of
he Cicilian goat into canvas. a quiet
rade. and then went 60 college. the
PRESIDENT of which was Gamaliel. an
which scholars say could not
lave been very thorough because Of
What they call Pau's imperfect eoni-
nand Of Greek syniax. But his history
.ecame exciting Oh the road to Dumas
as, where he was unh0rsed and blind
q. His conversion was a convulsion
Whether that fall from the horse may
ave left a mark upon him I know
ot but the mob soon took after him
nd hogged and imprisoned and mall
reated him until he had scars more
han enough to assure the truthfuiness
{ his utterance. u bear in my body
he marks Of the Lord Jesus
All Of Paul's sunerings was for
hrist's sake. He had Intellectual pow
rs which could have achieved for him
j worldly successes. YOU see vhat
e could do ID courtroom when with
xtemporaEeous speech he made the
Judicial bench tremble. when on Mars
in he c0nfounded the Athenian crit ,
IS. when be preached amid the ex-
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