Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-03-01
DR.. Talmage Praises It and Tells
of Its Great Rewards.
How the Lord Jesus VIII Remember
the Faithful Soldier of the CrOsS
Heroes and Martyrs of
Everyday Life.
copyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch.1
Washington. Feb. "a.

thrones, victories, but now tell the
more quiet story of scars, honorable
and dishonorable.--The are in all
parts of the world people bearing
scars. They went into
the battle of sin and were worsted,
and to their dying day they will have
a scarification of body or mind or
soul. It cannot be hidden. There axe
tens of thousands of men and women
now consecrated to God and living
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
zeal health or mental twist or style
of temptation they are ever and anon
reminded of the obnoxious past.
They have a memory that is dep1or-
able. La some twinge of pain or some
tendency to surrender to the wrong
they have an unwholesome remin-
iscence. They carry scars, deep scars,
ignoble scars.
But Paul in my text shows us
searifica ton which is a badge of hon
orable and self-sacrifcing 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 shipwrecks and mall
treatment by mobs. In my text he
shows those scars as he declares, II
bear in my body the marks of the
Lord Jesus" Notice that it rs not
wounds, but scars, and a scar is
healed wound. Before the scar is
well defined upon the flesh the in
fammation must have departed and
right circulation must have been
restored and new tissue must have
been formed. It is a permanent in
dentation of the fesh-a cicatrix.
Paul did we'll 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 to lead in
the worlds evangelization.
Men are not ashamed of sears 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: II lost it at Sedan" When
you ask an Italian: "Where did you
lose your eyer" he is not annoyed
when he can answer: 81 suffered that
in the last battle under our glorious
Gen. Garibaldi." But I remind you
of the fact that there are scars not
got in war which are just as illus
trious. We had in this country years
ago an eminent advocate who was
called into the presidential cabinet
as attorney general. In midlife he
was in Philadelphia courtroom en-
gagged in on important trial. The at
torney ON the opposite side of the
case got irritated and angry and in
most brutal manner referred to the
distinguished attorneys disfgured
face, face more deeply SCARED than
any face I ever saw. The legal hero
of whom I am speaking in his clos
ing argument said: Gentlemen OF
the jury, when I was a little child !
was playing with my sister in the
nursery, and her clothes caught fire,
and I ran to her to put out the fire
I succeeded, but I myself took fire,
and before 1t was extinguished my
face was awfully burned and as black
as the heart of the scoundrelly coun-
sci who on the other side of the case
has referred to my misfortune" The
eminent attorney of whom I speak
carried all his life the honorable scar
OF his sisters rescue. Albert Barnes
the most distinguished of all com
mentators, unless it be Matthew
Henry, for years at four o'clock in
the morning might have been seen
going from his house in Philadelphia
to his study in the church and in
those early hours and before break
fast to give all those wonderful com
mentaries. a theological library il
themselves. He said that as he wa,
pastor he felt bound to give all the
rest Of each day to work connected
with his pastorate. But at what Z
ruinous draft upon his eyesight h,
did that early morning work, first BY
candlelight and then by gaslght
When he got through those wonder
full volumes of Scriptural exposition
Albert Barnes was q blind man
Scars, fllustrious sears, on his extin
guished eyesighti
People think they must look To-
martyrs on battlefields or go through
a history to find burnings at tn,
stake and fortunes on racks whe,
there are martyrs all about rs. A
this time in this capital city there ar
scores OF men wearing themselve
out In the public service. In te,
years they will not have q health,
nerve left in their body. In com
mittee rooms. in consultations tina
involve the welfare Of the nation. mn
der tho weight of great responsible
ties, their vitality is being subtracted