The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-03-06

as sGASS Oh IEe DOG y SRe |@!oSS-
to the human eye are as honoTao Die aS
those visible.
All ve who bear in your body the
marks of the Lord Jesus have you
thought what use those marks Will be
in the heavenly world? What source
OF glorious reminiscence! In that
world you will sit together and talk
over earthly experiences. Where did
you get that SCARF" saint will say to
saint, and there will come back story
of hardship and struggle and perse.
cution and wounds and victory through
the grace OF the Gospel. Another spirit
will say to listening spirit: where
did you get that hurt so plainly
Uarked?" And the answer will be:
''Oh, that was one of the worst hurts
I ever had. That was broken friend
ship. We were in sweetest accord for
years, together in Joy and sorrow.
What one thought the other thought.
We we're 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 misunderstanding are gone,
and we are in the same Heaven, on
neighhoring thrones, in neighboring
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 re-
hinder Of a great bereavement, of
deselated household, Of deep grave,
Of ell the heartstrings at one stroke
snapped altogether. But you SEE it Is
no longer o laceration, for the wound
has been healed, and my once bereft
spirit is now in conpanionship with
the one from whom for awhile I was
separated" "Where did you get that
long, deep SCARF" says another Inn
mortal to listening immortal, and the
answer comes: That was the awful
fatigue Of a lifetime struggle in at
tempting amid adverse circumstances
to achieve livelihood. For 30 years
I was tired-oh, so tired! But you
gee it is a healed wound, for I 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 an
swer will come: "Oh, that was burn
suffered when the flames Of mar.
ty7dom were kindled beneath mel"
"Ignatius, what is that mark en- your
cheek?" "Oh, that was made by the
paw Of the lion to which I was thrown
BY the order OF Trajsn!" Some one
viii say to Pauls "Great apostle, that
must have been q deep cut once, the
mark which I see on your neck" And
Paul says: That was mads by the
sword which struck me at nay behead-
ment en- the road to Ostia." But we all
have sears 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 triumph
ant over all agHosticism.
Now what is the practical use OF
this subject? 1t is the cultivation OF
| Christian beroics. The most OF Us
want tc say things and do things for
God when there is no danger Of get
ting hurt. We are all ready for easy
work, for popular work, for compen-
sating work, but we all 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
| to get bit what an adieu we make about
It'll We all need more Of the stuff that
martyrs are made out Of. We want
more sanctifed grit, more Christian
pluck, more holy recklessness as to
what the world may say and do in
any crisis of our life. Be right and 90
right, and all earth and hell combined
cannot put you down.
Tho same little missionary who
wrote my text also uttered that piled
up nagnifcence to be found in those
words which ring like battle axes on
splitting helmets: ''In all these things
we are more than conquerors through
Him that loved US, for I am persuaded
that neither death, nor life, nor an
gels, nor principalities, nor powers,
nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other
creature, shall be able to separate US
from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord"
How do you like that, you towards,
who shrink back from aggressive work
and If SO much as a splinter pierce
your flesh cry out louder than many
: one torn in auto da fe? Many SOL
dier has gone through q long war, been
in 20 battles, led a regiment up hill
mounted by cannon and swept by mus
kerry and yet came home without hav-
ing been once hit and without mark
upon him. But it will not be SO among
those who pass N the grand review Of
Heaven. They nave all in the holy
wars been wounded, and all bear scars.
And what would the 1ewly arrived in
Heaven do with nothing to show that
he had ever been strucl: by human o7
diaboNc weaponry; how embarrassed
and eccentric such an eoe in such 6
place! Surely he would want to he
excused awhile from the heavenly
ranks and be permitted to desccat .
earth, crying: "Give mo ct
chance to DO something worth. g
immortal. Show me some post Of
danger to be manned, some fortress 70
be storned, some difficult charge to
make. Like Leonidas ct Thernopylae,
like Niltiades at Marathon, like Marl-
borough at Blenheirl, like Godfrey at
Jerusalen, like Winkelried at SAM
pach gathering the spears Of the Aus.
trian krishts into his bosom, giving
his life for others, show me some place
where can do brave thing for God.
cannot go back to Heaven until some.
where bear in my body tie marks Of
the Lord Jesus" Ny hearer, my read.
er, quit complaining about yeur mis-.
fortunes and 6isappeintnents and
troubles and through all time and ali