Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-03-02
CHRISTIAN HEROISM.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Tells Of Its
Great Rewards.
BADGES OF HONORABLE CONFLICT.

Those Who Bear Scars Won In III
Service of Jesus Christ Shall n
Richly Recompensed - God Wi
Honor, Though the World May Nc
Know.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-In this dl.
course DR.. Talmage praises Christia
herolsm and tells Of great reward.
The text Is Galatians vi, II, II bear Il
my body the marks of the Lord Je
Bus."
We hear much about crowns, thrones
victories, but now tell the more Quie
story Of scars, honorable and dishonor
able. There are In all parts of tn,
world people bearing dishonorabl,
scars. They went into the battle Of sir
and were worsted, and to their dying
day they will have a scarihcation OF
body or mind or soul. 1t cannot be hid
den. There are tens Of thousands OF
men and women now consecrated to
God and living holy lives who were
once corrupt, but they have been re-
generated, and they are no more what
they once were than rubescence Is ema-
citation, than balm Is vitriol, than noon
day Is midnight. But in their depleted
physical health or mental twist or style
of temptation they are ever and anon
reminded Of the obnoxious past. They
have a memory that is deplorable. In
some twinge Of pain or some tendency
to surrender to the wrong which they
must perpetually resist they have an
reminiscence. They car
ry scars, deep scars, ignoble scars.
But Paul in my text shows us a scar
lfication which is a badge Of honorable
and self sacrificing service. He had In
his weak eyes the result Of too much
study and in his body, bent and worn,
the signature of scourgings and Ship
wrecks and maltreatment by mobs. In
ny text he shows those scars as he de-
'lares, Il bear In my body the marks
If the Lord Jesus" Notice that 1t is
lot wounds, but scars, and a scar Is a
lealed wound. Before the scar Is well |
lefined upon the flesh the lnflamma-
lon must have departed, and right cir
ulation must have been restored, and |
ew tissue must have been formed. II
) a permanent lndentation of the flesh
"a cicatrix. Paul did well to show
hose scars. They were positive and
ldiSputable proofs that with all his
ody, mind and soul be believed what
e said; they were his diploma, show
lg that he had graduated from the
,hool of hardship for Christ; they
ere credentials proving his right to
ad In the worlds evangelization.
Hoporable Scars.
Men are not ashamed Of scars got |
battle for their country. No Ameri-
In Is embarrassed when you ask him,
Where did you get that cash across
,ur foreheadY and he can answer,
That was from a saber cut at San
IAN" When you ask some German,
Where did you lose your right arm"
J Is not ashamed to say, II lost it at
dan" When you ask an Italian,
Where did you lose your eye" he is
It annoyed when he can answer, 81
ffered that In the last battle under
r glorious General Garibaldi." But =,
'emind you of the fact that there are
lrs not got In war which are Just
illustrious. We had In this country
ars ago an eminent advocate who =
Is called into the presidential cabi- =
as attorney general. In midlfe he !!
IS In a Philadelphia courtroom en-
ged In an important trial. The at "
ney on the opposite side Of the case .
irritated and angry, and in most u
ltal manner referred to the dlstin- it
Ished attorneys dlsfigured face, a 81
e more deeply Scared than any face "
yer saw. The legal hero of whom | u
speaking In his closing argument al
d: Gentlemen Of the jury, when l
8 a little child | was playing with J"
sister In the nursery, and her &c
thes caught fire, and | ran to her to u
out the fire. | succeeded. but / NJ
self took fire, and before it was ex- OF
5ulshed my face was awfully burn ry
and as black as the heart of the su
counsel who on the other or
. Of the case has referred to my ev
fortune" The eminent attorney Of pa
om | speak carried all his life the er
orable scar of his sisters rescue. I'd
In Gods Service. Oil
young college student In England ye
I'D all the artistic world In derisive un
suit of William Turner, the painter. pie
young graduate took up his pen US
ONE respects the most brilliant pen an
was ever put to paper-and wrote tnl
e FIVE great volumes on modern WI
ting the chief thought Of which are
his defense of the abused painter. Gel
heroic author by some was sup 70
d In his old days to be cynical and
finding, and when | saw him a I
! while before his death he was in dol
dence, but know that all his face cos
all over his manner were the scars An
eroic defense. In the seventies of cot
lifetime he was suffering from the dor
nds and fatigues u the twenties. ora
, after he had quit the battle with she
or's pen and painters pencil he for
the scars Of literary martyrdom. Th'
t why do we go so far for illustra- to
when I could take right out Of the t,,r,
ories Of some whom | address In 49,
'es just as appropriate? To rear and
It for God and heaven large fam ho~
t children in that country home nj,
a mighty undertaking. Far away H..
the village doctor, the garret must h,,t
lin the herbs for the cure of all 49,,
Of disorders. Through all infan- 49,
the children Of that so-
V went They missed nothing In ~