Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-09

became exciting on the road to DamaS-
Gus, where he was unhorsed and blind
ed. His conversion was a convulsion-
Whether that fall from the horse may
have left a mark upon him I know
not, but the mob soon took after him
and f1ogged and imprisoned and mall
treated 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 Pauls sufferings was for
Christ's sake. He had intellectual pow
ers 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 confounded the Athenian crit
les; when he preached amid the ex-
citement of a tum bling penitentiary;
when in storm at sea he took COM
mand 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 capa-
city to move audiences, and his spirit
of defiance, there was no height of
worldly power he might not have
gained
Army OF Christian Soldiers.
All ye 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 Renaissance! In that world
you will sit together and talk over
earthly experiences. Where did you
| get that SCARF" saint will say to saint,
and there will come back a story of
hardship and struggle and persecution
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 marked?" And
the answer will be: "Oh, that was one
of the worst hurts I ever had. That
was a broken friendship. We were in
| sweetest accord for years, together in
| joy and sorrow. What one thought
the other thought. We were David
and Jonathan. But our personal in
terests parted, and our friendship
broke, never to be renewed on earth.
But We have made it all up here, and
misunderstanding are gone, and we
! are in the same heaven, on peighboring
thrones, in neighboring castles, on the
| banks of the same river
Practical Application.
Now what is the practical use of this
tian heroics. 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 popu-
lar work, for compensating work, but
we all greatly need more courage to
brave the world and brave satanic as
sault when there is something aggres-
sive and bold and dangerous to be un-
dertaken for God and righteousness.
And if we happen to get bit what an
ado we make about it, We all need
more of the stuff that martyrs are
made out of. We want more sanctified
grit, more Christian pluck, more holy
recklessness 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 cannot put you
down.
The same little missionary who
wrote my text also uttered that piled
up magnificence to be found in those
words which ring like battle axes on
splitting helmets: I'm all these things
: we are more than conquerors through
him that loved US, for 1 am persuaded
that neither death, nor life, nor angels
nor principalities, nor powers, mol
things present nor things to come mol
, ture, shall be able to separate us from
the love of God. which. is in Chris,
Jesus our Lord
How do you like that, you towards
: who shrink back from aggressive work
and il so much as a splinter pierce
your flesh cry out louder than many g
one torn in auto da fe? Many a sol
dier has gone through a long war, beer
in twenty battles, led a regiment up
hill mounted by cannon and swept by
: musketry and yet came home without
having been once hit and without
mark upon him. But it will not be s<
p among those who pass in the grand re
z view of heaven. They have all in thu
I holy wars been wounded, and all beal
u scars. And what would the newly ar
rived in heaven do with nothing t.
y show that he had ever been struck b,
human or diabolic weaponry? How
L embarrassed and eccentric such an on,
in such a place, Surely he would wan
to be excused awhile from the heaven
ly ranks and be permitted to descend
I to earth, crying -Give me anothe
chance to do something worthy of al
immortal. Show me some post of dan
e ger to be manned, some fortress t
r, be stormed, some difficult charge t.
e make Like Leonidas at Thermopylae
f like Miltriades at Marathon, like Marl
s borough at Blenheim, like Godfrey a
Il Jerusalem, like Winkelried at Sampacl
k gathering the spears of the Austrial
d knights into his bosom, giving his lif