The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-06-07

In this discourse DIR. Talmag,
praises Christian hcroism and tells o.
great rewards. The text is Galatian.
VI, H. II bear i'm my body the mavl.
OF the Lord Jesus"
We hear much about crowns
thrones, victories, but | now tell the
more quiet story of sears, honorable
and dishonorable There are in all
parts of the world people bearing
dishonorable sears. They went into
the battle of sin and were worsted.
and TO their dying day they Will have
a scariiication OF body or mind or
soul. 1t cannot be hidden. There axe
tens OF thousands of men and women
now consecrated 10 God and living
holy lives who were once corrupt:
but they have been regenerated. and
they are no more what they once
were than rubescence is emaciation,
than balm is vitriol, than MONDAY is
midnight. But in their depleted phys
ical health or mental twist or style
OF temptation they are ever and anon
reminded of the obnoxious past.
They have a memory that is deplor-
able. In some twinge of pain or some
tendency 10 surrender TO the wrong
they have an unwholcsomc rcmin-
iscence. They carry sears, deep sears,
ignoble scars.
But Paul in my text shows us a
scariiication which is a badge of hon
orable and self-sacrifcing service.
lie had in his weak eyes the result
of too much study and in his body.
bent and worn, the signature Of
scoureings and shipwrecks and NAL
treatment by mobs. In my text he
shows those sears as he declares. II
bear in my body the marks Of the
Lord Jesus" Notice that il is not
wounds. but sears. and a scar is a
healed wound. Before the scar is
well defined upon the flesh the in
flammation must have departed and
right circulation must have been
restored and new tissue must have
been formed. 1t is a permanent in
dentation of the hesh-a cicatrix.
Paul did well TO show those scars.
They were positive and undisputable /
proofs that with all his body. mind /
and soul he believed what he said. |
They were his diploma. showing that /
he had graduated from the school of
hardship for Christ. They were Gre
dentials proving his right 10 lead in
the worlds evangelizaton.
Men are not ashamed of scars got
In battle for their country. No
American is embarrassed when YOU
ask him: "Where did you get that
cash across your forehead?" and he
can answer: THAT was from a saber
cut at San Juan" When YOU ask
some German: Where did You lose
your right arm?" he is not ashamed
TO say: 81 lost IL at Sedan" When
you ask an Italian where did YOU
ose your eye?" he is not ANNOYED
when he can answer: II suffered that
n the last battle under our glorious
zen. Garibaldi" But / remind YOU
If the fact that there are scars not
rot in war which are Just as illus
rious. We had in this country years
Igo an eminent advocate who was
allied into the presidential cabinet
IS attorney general. In midlife he
vas in a Philadelphia courtroom en-
aged in an important trial. The at ,
orney on the opposite side of the
ase got irritated and angry and in T.
lOst brutal manner referred TO the /,
istinguished attorneys disfigured -
ace, face more deeply Scared than =.
ny face / ever saw. The legal hero -
f whom ! am speaking in his clos ,
" argument said: "Gentlemen Of =.
he jury, when | was a little child l ~
as playing with my sister in the -.
ursery, and her clothes caught fire. ..
nd ran to her TO put out the fire. .;
succeeded, but / myself took fire. ~
nd before it was extinguished my ~,
zee was awfully burned and as black d,
: the heart Of the scoundrelly coun- a.,
i who on the other side of the case q,
rs referred 10 my misfortune" The -,
ninent attorney of whom l speak ol
rried all his life the honorable scar 80
his sisters rescue. Albert Barnes, 4,
e most distinguished of all com "
entators, unless il be Matthew ~,
enry, for years at four o'clock in ,,t
e morning might have been seen of
ing from his house in Philadelphia -
his study in the church and in -
ose early hours and before break is
Sc 10 give all those wonderful COM -
,ntaries, a theological library in IN
emselves. He said that as he was ur
stor he felt bound TO give all the N
ST of each day 20 work connected %,
til his pastorate. But at what a al
nous draft upon his eyesight he -,
that early morning work. first by
ldlelight and then by gaslightl tol
zen he got through tnoee wonder -
volumes of Scriptural exposition, ,r,
bert Barnes was a blind man. fin
irs. illustrious sears, on his extin- I'm
shed eyesightl uo
'eople think they must look for Tin
rtyrs on battlefelds or go through ,r,
history to find burnings at the mi
Ike and tortures on racks when -
re are martyrs all about us At lie
s time in this capital city there are am
res of men wearing themselves the
in the public service. In ten 9th
RS they will not have a healthy ub
We left in their body. In COM dis,
tee rooms. in consultations that eva
olive the welfare of the nation, un- in .