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eNnduSllOnS, ana the irritating lHtci up.
tions. and the unreasonable demands OF
all kinds, high official position IS not q
sinecure.
The heroes and the heroines Of any war
are not always at the front. are not al
ways epauletteG. are not always acqHaint-
ed with military tactics. and some of
them would not know how to present
arms or ground arms or stack arms. Some
of them rendered their service III hospl-
tails. some BY doing harder work on the
farm while the breadwinner was at Get
tvsburg. We ell know the names Of the
DISTINGUISHED Northern and Southern
women who bound up the wounds of the
battlefclds. but there were 10000 women
lust as brave who never left the farm
house or cotton plantation, and who were
so worn out in taking care Of their hereft
homes that when the soldier came home
they had only strength left to die. And
the places where they sleep the last sleep
are not marked with so much as a plain
slab. while those who suffered not half so
much are in sculptured mauseloeum.
There is a woman who has suffered do.
mestc injustice of which there is no cog
nizance. She saws nothing about it. An
lnquisitor'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 full duty
and received for it harshness and blame
and neglect. The marriage ring. that was
supposed to be sign of unending aifec-
tion. has turned out to he one link of a
chain Of horrible servitude. A wreath of
nettle and nightshade of brightest form
would have been, more accurate pronhe-
cy There are those who find it hard to
believe that there is such a place IS hell,
but you could 20 right out in any conmu-
nifty and find more than one hell of domes-
tic torment. There is no escape for that
woman but the grave. and that. compared
with the life she now lives. will be an ar
Dor of jasmine and Of the humming birds
song poured into the ear of the honey
suckie Sears! If there be none on the
brow showing where be struck her arriv-
ing home from midnight carousal. never
her injured and immortal soul which will
he remembered on the day when there
shall leap forth for her aveneement the
live thunderbolts of an incensed God.
When we see a veteran in any land who
has lost limb in battle. our sympathies
are stirred: but. Oh. how many have in
the domestic realm lost their life and yet
are denied a pillow of dust on which 20
siumbpr! Better enlarge your roll OF mar
tyrs: better adont new, MODE Of count
ing human sacrifcations. \ broken bone
is not half as bad as broken heart.
There are many who can in the same
sense that Paul uttered it 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 keen their
irdenture through all time and all eter-
nifty. Dc Won think that Paul was accur-
ate when he said that? II Won have stud
led his career you have no doubt OF it. In
mis- youth he learned how to fashion the
hair of the Cilician goat into canvas.
quiet trade. and then went to college, the
President OF which was Gamaliel. an in
stitution which scholars say could not have
call PauHs imperfect command of Greek
syntax. But his history became exciting
on the road to Damascus, where he was
unhorscd and blinded. His conversion was
4 convuision. Whether that fall from the
horse niay have left a mark upon him. l
know not. but the mob soon took after
him and hogged and imprisoned and mall
treated him until he had scars more than
enough to assure the truthfuiness OF his
utterapcc, Il bear in my body the marks
OF the Lord Jesus"
All We 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, rcrlinis-
cence! In that world you will sit to-
gether and talk over earthly experiences;
"Where did you get that scar" 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.
''Where did yoI get thai mark saws
another spirit to listen 7g spirit, and tie
answer comes: That ,s a reminder OF
great bereavement. OF 4 deso;ated house
t,o'S of all
strings at one stroke snapped altogether.
BIT YOU see it is no longer Iaceratlon.
fo- the wound has been healed. and my
once bercft spirit is now IL companion
ship with the one from whom for awhile
was separated
Where did YOU get that long, deep
scar" says another immortal to listening
immortal, and the answer comes: That
was the awful fatigue of lifetime strrg-
Gle in attempting amid adverse circum-
stances. to achieve a likelihood For
But you see it is healed wound, for |
have found rest at last ior body and soul,
the complete rest. the everlasting rest
that heard of before [ came here as the
res; tnat remaineth Tor the people CT
God"
Some one in heaven will say to Martyr
john Rogers, where did you get that
II on vour foot!' and the answer will
come, 'Oh. that was burn | suffered
wncn the flames OF rlartvrdom were kin
died beneath me-, ''Ignatius, what is that
made by the paw OF the lion to which
was thrown by the order OF Traian.'
Some one will say to Paul, Great apos-
tie. that must have been a deep cut once
the mark which I see on yoar neck
And Paul says, That was made b. the
sword which struck me at my bcheadmcrt
on the road to Ostia." But VIC all have
scars OF some kind, and those are some or
the things We will talk over in the heav-
thai made us triumphant over all antag-
cnism.
Now. what is the practical use OF this
subject? 1t is the cultivation OF Christian
heroics. The most of us want to say
;hings and do things for God when there
is no danger of getting hurt. We are all
@eady for easy work. for popular work.
Tor compensatlng work, but We all greatly
need more courage to brave the world and
brave satanic assault when there is some
thing aggressive and bold and dangerous
to be undertaken for God and righteous
ness. And if we happen to get hit wh"t
more of the stuff that martyrs are made
out Of. We want more sanctitied grit,
more Christian pluck, more holy reckless
ness as to what the world may say and do
in any crisis of our life. Be right and do
right, and all earth and hell combined can
not nut you down.
The same little missionary who wrote
my text also uttered that piled up mag
niiicence to be found in those words which
ring like battlcaxes on splitting helmets:
In all these things we are more than con-
tnrp.lUh l0VpH |
ain persuaded that neither death nor life
nor angels nor prineipalities 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