The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

much are in sculptured inauseloeum.
Inalllands there are veterans of war who
may not have had their face scraped with
one bullet on their foot lamed by one
bursting shell, and who could not roll up
their sleeve and show YOU one mark sugges.
tive of battle, yet carry with them weak
nesses got in exposures to disease along
malarial swamps or from many miles of
marching, and ever and anon they feel q
twinge of pain, each recurrence of which
is sharper or more lasting until after
awhile they will be captured for the tomb
by disorders which started twenty or
thirty or forty years before. And their
scars are all unsen by human eyes. But
those people are as certainly the victims
of war as though they had been blown up
in an undermined fortress or thrust
through with eavalryman's lance. What
| want to make out is that there are scars
which are never counted except as God
counts them, and / want to enlarge your
sympathies.
There is a woman who has suffered do
nestle injustice of which there is no cog
nizance. She says nothing about it. An
inquisitor'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
ton, has turned out to be one link of a
chain of horrible serytude. A wreath of
nettle and nightshade of brightest form
would have been a more accurate pronhe
cy. There are those who find it hard to
believe that there is such place as hell,
but you could go right out in any commu-
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
bor Of jasmine and of the humming birds
song poured into the ear of the honey
suckle. Scarsi If there be none on the
brow showing where he struck her arriv-
ing home from midnight carousal, never
theless there are scars all up and down
be remembered on the day when there
shall leap forth for her avengement the
live thunderbolts of an ineensed 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 to
slumber Better enlarge your roll of mar
tyrs; better adopt new mode OF count
ing human sacrifications. A broken bone
is not half as bad as broken heart.
There are many who can in the same
sense that Paul uttered it say, '1 bear in
my body the marks of the Lord Jesus :
that is, for the sake of Christ and His
cause they carry scars which keep their
indenture through all time and all eter-
nifty. Do you think that Paul was aceur-
ate when he said that? If you have stud
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 Gamaliel an in
stitution which scholars say could not have
been verv thorough because OF what they
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 convulsion. Whether that fall from the
horse may have left a mark upon him,
know not. but the mob soon took after
him and hogged and imprisoned and NAL
treated him until he had scars more than
enough to assure the truthfulness of his
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 reminis
cencei In that world You will sit to-
gether and talk over earthly experiences.
"Where did you get that scar?" saint will
story of hardship and struggle and perse-
cuton and wounds and victory through
the grace of the gospel.
Another spirit will say to listening spirit,
Where did you get that hurt so plainly
markell" And the answer will be: ''Oh,
hat was one of the worst hurts | ever had.
That was a broken friendship. We were
N sweetest accord 1or years, together in
10y and sorrow What one thought the |
other thought. We were David and Jona-
than. But our personal interests parted, |
md our friendships broke never to be re-
newed on earth. But we have made it all |
I'D here. and MISUNDERSTANDING are gone,
md we are in the same heaven, on neigh.
boring thrones, in neighboTing castles, ON
the banks OF the same river
Where did yo1 get thai mark?' says |
mother spirit to listening spirit, and the |
answer comes: That is a reminder of a
great bereavement, OF a desolated house
hold, of q deep grave, OF all the heart |
strings at one stroke snapped altogether.
But you see it is no longer a laceration. |
ior the wound has been healed, and my
once hereft spirit is now in companion.
ship with the one from whom for awhile |
was separated"
Where did you get that long, deep
scar" says another immortal to listening
and the answer comes: That
was the awful fatigue OF lifetime strug.
,le in attempting amid adverse circum-
stances, TO achieve likelihood, For
thirty years | was tired-oh, so tiredi
But YOU see it is healed wound, for |
nave found rest at last for body and soul,
he complete rest, the everlasting rest
hat / heard of before | came here as the
.est that remaineth for the people of
Sod"
Some one in heaven will say to Martyr
John Rogers, where did you get that
ar on your footF" and the answer will
come, "Oh, that was burn l suffered
L., A.. r H. L..
mark on your cheeky" "0h, that was
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 deep cut once
the mark which | see on your neck"
And Paul says, That was made by the
on the road TO Ostia.' But We all have
sears of some kind, and those are some of
the things we will talk over in the heav-
enly world while we celebrate the grace
that made us triumphant over all antag-
onlsm.
Now. what is the practical use of this
subject? 1t is the cultivation OF Christian
heroies. 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 for easy work, for popular work.
for eompensating 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 what
an ado we make about it, We all need
more of the stuff that martyrs are made
ont of We want more sanctifed 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
to be found in those words which
ring like battleaxes on splitting helmets;
In 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 prineipalties 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 if
SO much as splinter pierce your flesh cry
out louder than many a one torn in auto
da-fe Many a soldier has gone through
long war, been in twenty battles, led a
,e0inoent nm a hill mounted bV cannon and