Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-01

amid the excitement of a tumbling peni- |
tertiary; when in a storm at sea he took
command Of the ship, the only one on
board cool 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 Demosthenes was
in power of persuasion, what Socrates
was to philosophy, what H1schylus was
to the drama, that Paul might have been
to all centuries. God never before and
never since made another human being
like him. But with all his capacity and
opportunity of achieving worldly renown
he turns his back on home and becomes
an exile, on bounteOus tables and eats
his hard crust by the roadside, on the
pleasure yachts that sailed the Mediter-
ranean and embarked on a freightbOat
from Alexandria, on scholars in Ath-
ems and talks to fishermen. Instead of
plaudits of aroused and enthusiastic as
semblages he addressed audiences that
talked back and asked insOlent questions
and broke up in a riot. Instead of gar
lands flung at his feet they hurled stones
upon his head. Five times he was scOurg-
ed, at each whipping 80 strokes. the for
tieth stroke spared not from mercy, but
because 40 strokes were the severest pun
ishment the law allowed, and they fear
ed, through counting wrong, they might
make it Al and SO themselves be punish
ed. Why, Paul must have been Scared
all over, and he only tells the plain truth
without any commentary when he de-
clares. Il bear in my body the marks Of
the Lord Jesus" 1t was as much as to
say: See those long scars? There is
where they whipped me. See you that
ugly indenture. There is where they
stoned me. See you that encircling scar
OH my wrist? There is where they hand
cuffed me. See those ugly curves around
] my ankles? There is where they made
my feet fast in the stocks"
Army of Christian Soldiers.
There are many who. like that apostolic
martyr, have on them the mark of the
Lord Jesus There is the great army of
foreign missionaries. sometimes maligned
by dissolute American, English and
Scotch merchants. who at Hongkong and
Calcutta and ConstAntinople have had
their wickedness reproved by the pure
home life of those missionaries. There is
the great army of the ministers Of the
gospel. now in heaven, who. on small sal
aries and amid fatigues that slew them
served their day and generation. There
is another great army Of private Chris
tians who in Sabbath schools and in
tract distribution and in humanitarian
and evangelistic efforts have put theil
life in sacrifice on the affairs of God
There is another army Of Christian inva
lids who lost their life in overwork fol
the church and the worlds redemption
People call their illness neuralgia or nerv
Gus prOstration or insomnia or paresi,
or premature old age. | call their all
mcnts scars, as my text calls them scars
There may be scars on the memory. scar
on the spirits. scars on the courage. scar
on the soul, as well as scars on the body
and those invisible to the human eye ar
as honorable as those visible.
, All We who bear in your body the mark
, Of the Lord Jesus, have you though
I what use those marks will be iuthe heay
/ emily world? What source Of glorious rem
D iniscence! In that world you will sit to
= gether and talk over earthly experiences
( "Where did you get that scarY saint vii
say to saint, and there will come back
3 story Of hardship and struggle and perse
cutiOn AMI wounds and victory throug
y the grace Of the gospel. Another spiri
D will say to listening spirit. where di
5 you get that hurt so plainly marked ?
i And the answer win be; "Oh, that wa
d one OF the worst hurts ever had ThG
d was a broken friendship We were