The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-03-02
CHRISTIAN HEROISM.
DR.. Talmage Praises 1t 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.l
Washington,

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vi, II. 81 bear in my body the marks
of the Lord Jesus"
We hear much about crowns,
thrones, victories, but | now tell the
more quiet story of scars, honorable
and dishonorable. There are in all
parts of the world people bearing
dishonorable sears. They went into
the battle of sin and were worsted,
and to their dying day they Will have
a scarifcation of body or mind or
soul. 1t cannot be hidden. There axe
tens of thousands of men and women
now consecrated to God and living
holy lives who were once corrupt
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 depicted phys
ical health or mental twist or style
of temptation they are ever and anon
reminded of the obnoxious past.
They have u memory that is deplor-
able. In some twinge of pain or some
tendency to surrender to the wrong
they have an unwholesome remin-
iscence. They carry scars, deep scars,
ignoble sears.
But Paul in my text shows us a
scarification which is a badge of hon
orable and self-sacrificing service.
He had in his weak eyes the result
of too much study and in his body.
bent and worn. the signature of
| scouroings and shipwrecks and mall
treatment by mobs. In my text he
shows those scars as he declares. Il
bear in my body the marks of the
| Lord Jesus" Notice that it is not
wounds. but scars, and a scar is a
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. 1t is a permanent in
d~entation of the fesh-a cicatrix.
Paul did well to show those cars.
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 got
in battle for their country. No
American is embarrassed when you
ask him: "Where did you get that
cash across your f~orehead?" and he
can answer: THAT was from n saber
cut at San Juan" When you ask
some German: where did you lose
your right arm?" he is rot ashamed
to say: 81 lost it at Sedan" When
YOU ask an Italian: where did you
lose your eye?" he is not annoyed
when he can answer: 81 suffered that
in the last battle under our glorious
Gen. G%aribaldi." But l remind you
Of the fact that there are scars not
got in war which are just as illus
trlous. We had in this country years
ago an eminent advocate who wa:
called into the presidential cabinet
as attorney general. In midlife he
was in a Philadelphia courtroom en-
gagged in an important trial. The at
torney on the opposite side of tn,
case got irritated and angry and il
most brutal manner referred to tn,
distinguished attorneys disfiguret
face, a face more deeply Scared thai
any face 1 ever saw. The legal her,
of whom / am speaking in his clos
ing argument said: Gentlemen o
the jury, when ! was a little child
was playing with my sister in tn
nursery, and her clothes caught fire
and I ran to her to put out the fire
succeeded, but / myself took fire
and before it was eXtinguished N
face was awfully burned and as blac
rs the heart of the sc~oundrelly cour
sci who on the other side of the cas-
has referred to my misfortune" Tn
eminent attorney of whom 1 spea
carried all his life the honorable sea
of his sisters rescue. Albert Barne!
the most distinguished of all con
mentators, unless it be Matthe'
4 Henry, for years at four o'clock i
the morning might have been see
going from his house in Philadelphia
to his study in the church and j
those early hours and before breal
fast to give all those wonderful cor
~mentaries, a theological library
themselves. He said that as he WI
pastor he felt bound to give all IL
, rest of each day to work connecte
. with his pastorate. But at what
. r~uinous draft upon his eyesight l
. did that early morning work, first l
. candlelight and then by gasligh
3 When he got through tnose wonde
. full volumes of Scriptural expositio
: Albert Barnes was a blind ma
Scars, illustrious scars, on his exit
: guished eyesight!
. People think they must look f.
= martyrs on battlefields or go throu!
. a history to find burnings at Il
. stake and tortures on racks VIII,
. there are martyrs all about us. .
9 this time in this capital city there a
. scores of men wearing themsely
. out in the public service. In t,
years they will not have a healtl
nerve left in their body. In col
mittee rooms. in consultations tn
involve the welfare of the nation, u
: der the weight of great responsible
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