Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-03-07
are scores Of men wearing themselves out

weight of great RESPONSIBILITIES. their vi.
tal,ty is being subtracted. In almost every
Village of the country YOU find some bro
ken down State or National official.
There is woman who has suffered do
mestic injustice of which there is no cog.
nizance. She saws nothing about it. An
Inauistor's machine of torture could NOT
wiring from her the story of domestic Voc.
Ever since the day of orange blossoms and
long white veil she has done her full duty
and received for it harshne.s and blame
and neglect The marriage ring. that was
supposed to be sign of unendng affec-
ton. has turned out to he one link of a
chain of horrible servitude. A wreath of
nett'e and nightshade of brightest form
would have beer a more accurate Drophe-
cy;, There are those who find it hard TO
believe that there is such place as hell.
but You could go rioht out in any commu.
n,ty and find more than one hell of dor,es-
tic torment. There is no escape for that
woman bnt the grave ,o.nd that; compared
with the life she row lives. will he an ar.
Dor of jasmine and of the humming birds
song. poured into the ear of the honey.
suckle. Sears! If there be none on the
brow showing where he struck her arriy.
ing home from midnight rarousal. never.
theless there are scars all I'm and down
her injured and immortal soul which will
he remembered on the dav when there
shall leap forth for her avenrerert the
live thunderbots of an incensed Cod
When we see veteran in any land who
has lost a. limb in battle. our svmnathies
are stirred but. oh. how MANY have in
the domestic realm lost their life and yet
are denied pillow of dust on which to
slumber! Better enlarge your roll of mar
tyrs: better adont new mode of count
ing human sacrifcations broken bone
is not half as bad as a broken heart
There are manv who can in the same
| sense that Paul uttered it say. II 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
| indenture THROUGH all time and all eter-
nifty. Do Won think that Paul was accur-
led his career you have no doubt Of it. In
| his youth he learned how to fashion the
| hair of the Cilician goat into canvas a
quiet trade. and then went to college. the
President of which was Gamahcl, an in
| stitution which scholars saw could not have
| been verv thorough because of what thev
call Paufs imperfect command of Greek
syntax But his history became exciting
| on the road to Damascus. where he was
unhorsed and blinded His conversion was
a convulsor. Whether that fall from the
horse nay have left mark upon him. I
know cot. but the mob soon took after
him and fogged and imprisoned and NAL.
| treated him until he had scars more than
enough TO assure the truthfnlness of his
utterance, Il bear in my body the marks
| OF fhe LORD Jesus.
| All We who bear in Your body the marks
| of the Lord Jesus, have you thourht what
| use those marks will be in the heavenly
world? What source of glorious reminis-
cence! In that world you will sit to
gether ard talk over earthly experience:
| "Where did you get that scar?" saint viii
| say to saint. and there will come back a
story of hardship and struggle and perse-
cution and wounds and victory through
| the grace of the gospel
Where did yoI get thai mark?" says
4 another spirit to listening spirit and the
answer comes "That is a reminder of a
| great bereavement, of desolated house.
hold, of a deep grave, of all the heart
strings at one stroke snapped altogether.
But YOU see it is no longer ceration,
for the wound has been healed, and my
once bereft spirit is now in companion:
ship with the. one from whom for awhile
| was separated"
"Where did you get that long. deep
SCARF says another immortal to listening
immortal, and the answer comes: That
was the awful fatigue of Il lifetime strug
gle in attempting amid adverse circum'
stances, to achieve a likelihood. For
| thirty years / was tred-oh. so tired
But you see it is healed wound, for
have found rest at last for body and soul,
the complete rest, the everlasting rest
that | heard of before [ came here as the
rest that remaineth for the people Of
| God"
Some one in heaven will say to Martyr
car on your FOOT" and the answer will
come, "Oh: that was a burn i suffered
when the flames of martyrdom were kim
dice, beneath me-, 'Ignatius what is that
mark on your cheek?" "Oh, that was
made by the paw of the lion to which l
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 | see on your neck !"
And Paul says, That was made by the
sword which struck me at my beheadment
on the road to Ostia" But we all have
the things we will talk over in the heav-
enly world while we celebrate the grace
that made us triumphant over all antag-
| onism.
Now, what is the practical use of this
| subject! 1t is the cultivation of Christian
heroics. The most OF us want to say
things and do things for God when there
is no danger of getting hurt. We are all
| ready Tor easy work, for popular work,
for 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 ii we happen to yet hit what
an ado we make about it, We all need
more of the stuff that martyrs are. made
| out OF. We want more sanetfied 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
niticence to be found in those words which
ring like battleaXes on splitting helmets:
I'm all these things we are more than con-
| querors, through Him that loved us. for !
am persuaded that neither death nor life
nor angels 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 II
so much as "A splinter pierce your flesh cry
out louder than many one torn IN auto
da-fe. Many a soldier has gone through a
long war, been in twenty battles. led a
regiment up hill mounted by cannon and
swept by musketry, and yet came home
without having been once hit and without
a mark upon him. But it will not be so
among those who pass in the grand review