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

10 death by sword or instrument o
torture was more of a martyr thar
that man who has been wrunp =,
death by the demands Of official DO
sition. The scars may not be- visible
for these are sears on the brain
and scars on the nerve and sears ON
the heart, but nevertheless are the,
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 foot
lamed by one bursting shell and who
could not roll up their sleeve and
show you one mark suggestive 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 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 30
or 40 years before. And their scars
are all unseen by human eyes. But
those people are as certainly the vic
Tins of war as though they had been
blown up in an undermined fortress
or thrust through with a cavalry
mans lance. What I want 10 make
out is that there are scars which
are never counted except as God
counts them. and | want 10 enlarge
your sympathies.
There are many who can. in the same
sense that Paul uttered il. say: 81 bear
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 an 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 il. In his youth he learned
how 10 fashion the hair of the Ciiician
goat into canvas. n quiet trade. and
then went to college. the president OF
which was Gamaliel an institution /
which scholars say could not have been /
very thorough because Of what they /
call Paul's imperfect command Of /
Greek syntax. But his history became
exciting on the road 70 Damascus
where he was unhorscd and blinded.
His conversion was 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 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 Pau's suffering was for
,hrist's sake. He had intellectual
powers which could have achieved for
lin al worldly successes You see
What he could DO in a courtroom when
With extemporaneous speech he made
he judicial bench tremble; when on
lars Hill he confounded the Athenian
rites; When he preached amid the ex-
itement Of a tumbing penitentiary;
hen in a. storm at sea he took com
nand of the ship. the only one on board
,ol headed. With his inspired logic.
nd his courage of utterance, and his
over Of illustration. and his capacity
o move audiences, and his spirit of de- :
ance. there was no height Of worldly
over he might not have gained. {
What Hannibal was TO an army a
hat Draco was in making laws what {
omer was TO poetry, what Demos Il
ienes was in power Of persuasion. 7
hat Socrates was to philosophy. what n
eschylus was 10 the drama. that Paul n
light have been TO all centuries. God "
ever before and never since made an a
her human being like him. But with r
his capacity and opportunity Of c
'hieving worldly renown he turns his
elk on home and becomes an exile. ON "
,unteous tables and eats his hard u
ust by the roadside. on the pleasure "a
chts that sailed the Mediterranean 81
c embarked on a freightboat from W
exandria. on scholars in Athens and II
ks 10 fishermen. Instead Of plaudits m
aroused and enthusiastic as %
he addressed audiences That n,
iked back and asked insoent ques- n,
ms and broke up in a riot Instead or
garlands flung at his feet they hurled fr
mes upon his head. Five times he j,
Is scourged 40 each whipping 80
-oles. the fortieth stroke spared not W
I'm mercy. but because 30 strokes an
re the severest punishment the law yo
owed, and they feared. through
Inting wrong, they might make il di,
and so themselves be punished. I'm
ly. Paul must have been SCARED al III,
n, and he only tells the plain truth Ike
hout any commentary when he de- I'm,
res: 81 bear in my body The marks up
the Lord Jesus" II was as much as fb.
say: "See those long sears? There lie
where they whipped me. See you wa
{ ugly indenture. That is where An
y stoned me. See you that encir- lie
2 scar on ny wrist? That is where he
v handcufled me. See those ugly dia
yes around my ankles? There is am,
ere they made my feet fast IN the pla
ks" exc
here are many who, ike that apos- rar
martyr, have on them the mark ear
the Lord Jesus. There is the great ch,
y of foreign missionaries. some inn
es maligned by dissolute American. dan
-iish and Scotch merchants, who az be
lg-kong and calcutta ana Oonsian- ma
,ple have hed their wickedness re- ik,
we'd by the pure home life Of those bor
sionaries. There is the great army Jer