The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-03-02

tunities. NO man that was ever put
to death by sword or instrument of
torture was more of a martyr than
that NAV who has been wrung to
death by the demands of official po-
sition. The scars may lot be visible,
for these are scars on the brain,
and scars on the nerve and sears On
the heart, but nevertheless are they
scars, and God counts them and their
reward will be abundant.
In all lands there are veterans of
war who may not have had their face
scraped with one bullet or their foo
famed by one bursting shell and who
could not roll up their sleeve and
show you one mark suggestive of
hattie, 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 n 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 20 or 80
or 40 years before. And their scars
are all unseen by human eyes. But
those people are as certainly the VIC
Tins of var as though they had been
blown up in an undermined fortress
or thrust through with a cavalry
mans lance. What I want to make
ont is that there are scars which
are never counted except as God
counts them. and I want to enlarge
your sympathies.
There are many who can. in the same
sense hat Paul uttered it. say: "Ibear
in my body the marks of the Lord Je-
sus"-that is. for the sake of Christ
and His cause they carry scars which
keep their indenture through all time
and all eternity. Do you think that
Paul was accurate when he said that?
If YOU have studied his career, you have
no doubt of it. In his youth he learned
how to fashion the hair of the C%ilician
goat into canvas, a quiet trade, and
then went to college, the president of
which was Gamaliel, an institution
which scholars say could not have bee
very thorough because of what they
call Paul's imperfect command OF
Greek syntax. But his history became
exciting on the road to Damascus,
where he was endorsed and blinded.
His conversion was a CONFUSION.
Whether that fall from the horse may
have left a mark upon him | know not.
but the mob soon took after him and
flogged and imprisoned and maltreated
him until he had scars more than
enough to assure the truthfulness of
his utterance: 81 bear in my body the
marks of the Lord Jesus"
All of Paul's suffering was for
Christ's sake. He had intellectual
powers which could have achieved for
him all worldly successes. You see
what he could do in a. courtroom when
with extemporaneous speech he made
the judicial bench tremble; when on
Mars hill he COMPOUNDED the Athenian
critics; Mhen he preached amid the eX-
element of a tumbling penitentiary
when in a. storm at sea he ook com
mand Of the ship, the only one on board
col headed. With his inspired logic
and his courage of utterance, and his
power of illustration, and his capacity
TO move audiences. and his spirit of de,
fance, there was no height of worldly
power he might not have gained.
What Hannibal was to an army
what Draco was in making laws. what
Homer was to poetry, what Demos
themes was in power of persuasion
what Socrates was to philosophy, wha'
Aeschylus was to the drama, that Pau
I might have been to all centuries. Coo
: never before and never since made an
other human being like him. But will
all his capacity and opportunity o
achieving worldly renown he turns hi
a back on home and becomes an exile. oil
. bounteous tables and eats his hare
i crust by the roadside, on the pleasur
. Yachts that sailed the Mediterranean
0 and embarked on a freightboat iron
Alexandria, IN scholars in Athens an,
I talks to fishermen. Instead of plaudit
l OF aroused and enthusiastic as
e semblages he addressed audiences tina
:, talked back and asked insolent ques
tons and broke up in a riot. Instea
of g~arlands flung at his feet they hurle
y stones upon his head. Five times h
k was scourged, at each whipping 3
l. strokes. the fortieth stroke spared no
from mercy, but because 40 stroke
e were the severest punishment the LAY
k allowed, and they feared. throug
+ counting wrong, they might make
S, Al and so themselves be punished
l. Why, Paul must have been Scared a
W over. and he only tells the plain trut
n without any commentary when he d,
N c%lares: 81 bear in my body the MARI
Ia of the Lord Jesus" 1t was as much q
n to say: "See those long scars? The1
k is where they whipped me. See 20
n that ugly indenture. That is whei
they stoned me. See you that enci
rs ling scar on my wrist? That is whei
he they handcuffed me. See those ugl
ID curves around my ankles? There
a where they made my feet fast in IL
ne stocks"
'y There are many who, like that ape
t. tolic martyr, have m them the MAJ
r. of the Lord Jesus. There is the gre:
N, army of foreign missionaries, som
n. times maligned by ~dissolute America
n English and Scotch merchants, who
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