The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-02-28

win tne NE she now lives, will be an ar
bor OF Jasmine and Of the buvmiug birds
song, poured into the car OF the honey
suckle. Scarsl If there be none ON the
brow showing where he struck her arriv-
ing home from midnight carousal. never.
theless there are scars all up and down
her injured and immortal soul which viii
be remembered on the day when thrrr
shall leap forth for her Arrangement the
live thunderbolts OF an inccnsed God.
When we see a veteran in any land who
has lost limb in battle, our sympathies
are stirred: but. oh. how many have in
the domestic realm lost their life and yet
are denied pillow Of dust on which TO
sumber! Better enlarge your roll of mar
tyrs better adopt new mode of count
ing human sacrihcations. A broken bone
Us not half as bad as a broken hs,rt.
There are many who can in the same
sense that Paul uttered i say, .1 bear in
my body the marks Of the Lord Jesus''--
that IS, for the sake Of Christ and His
cause they carry scars which keen their
indenture through all time and all eter-
nifty. Do you think that Paul was accur-
ate when he said that? Ii you have stud
his youth he learned how to fashion the
hair of the Cilician goat into canvas. a
quiet trade, and then went to college. the
President of which was Gamahel, an in
stitution which scholars say could not have
been very thorough because of what tbev
call Paurs imperfect command of Greek
syntax. But his history became exciting
on the road TO Damascus, where he was
unhorsed and blinded. His conversion was
a convulsion. Whether that fall from the
horse may have left mark upon him. l
know not. but the mob soon took after
him and tlogged and imprisoned and NAL
treated him until he had scars more than
enough TO assure the truthfulness of his
utterance, II bear in my body the marks
of the Lord Jesus"
Al ye who bear in your body the marks
OF the Lord Jesus, have you thought what
use those marks will be in the heavenly
worldE What source of glorious reminis-
cence! In that world YOU will sit to-
gether and talk over earthly experiences.
Where did you get that scar" saint will
say to saint, and there will come back
story OF hardship and struggle and perse-
cution and wounds aud victory through
the grace OF the gospel
Where did yoI get that mark" says
another spirit to listening spirit, and the
answer comes: That is a reminder of a
great bereavement, OF a desoated house
hold, OF deep grave, of all the heart
strings at one stroke snapped altogether.
But you see it is no longer a laceration
for the wound has been healed, and my
once berett spirit is now in companion
ship with the one from whom for awhile L
was separated
Where did YOU get that long. deep
scarf" says another immortal to listening
immortal, and the answer comes: That
was the awful fatigue Of lifetime strug-
gle in attempting amid adverse circum-
stances. to achieve livelihood. For
thirty years | was tired--oh. so tiredi
But you see it is healed wound, for l
have found rest at last for body and soul,
the complete rest. the everlasting rest
that L heard of before ] came here as the
God.a GSsd that r'm'ineth for the people of
Some one in heaven will say to Martyr
John Rogers, Where did you get that
ear on your foot?" and the answer will
come, "Oh: that was burn / suffered
when, the flames of martyrdom were kin
marx on your % cheek? Soh WITH t6at Il WAS WAS
made by the paw of the lion to which /
was thrown by The order of Traian."
-, Some one will say to Paul, Great apos-
tie. that must have been deep cut once
the mark which [ see on your neck"
And Paul says, That was made by the
sword which struck me at my beheadment
on the road to Ostia." But we all have
scars of some kind, and those are some of
the things we will talk over in the heav-
enly world while we celebrate the grace
that made us triumphant over all antag-
onism.
Now, what is the practical use of this
subject! 1t is the cultivation of Christian
heroics. The most OF us want to say
things and do things for God when there
is no dagger OF getting hurt. We are all
ready for easy work, for popular work.
Tor eeompensating work, but we all greatly
need more courage to brave the world and
brave satanic assault when there is some
thing aggressive and bold and dangerous
to be undertaken for God and righteous
ness. And If we happen to get hit what
an ado we make about it, We all need
more of the stuff that martyrs are made
out Of. We want more sanctiied grit,
more Christian pluck, more holy reckless
ness 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 can
not nut you down.
my text also uttered that piled up mag
nihcence to be found in those words which
ring like battleaXes on splitting helmets:
I'm all these things we are more than CON
Querors, through Him that loved us, for
am persuaded that neither death nor life
nor angels nor principalities nor powers
nor things present nor things to come nor
height nor depth nor any other creature
shall be able to separate us from the love
OF God, which is in Christ Jeius our
Lord"
How do you like that, you towards, who
shrink back from aggressive work, and if
so much as splinter pierce your flesh cry
out louder than many one torn in auto
da-te. Many soldier has gone through u
long war, been in twenty battles, led
regiment up hill mounted by cannon and
swept by musketry, and yet came home
without having been once hit and without
a mark upon him. But it will not be SO
among those who pass in the grand review
of heaven. They have all in the holy wars
been wounded, and all bear scars. And
what would the newly arrived in heaven
do with nothing to show that he had ever
been struck by human or diabolc weap-
onry? How embarrassed and eccentric
such a one i'll such a pace Surely he
would want to be excused awhile from the
heavenly ranks and be permitted to de-
scend TO earth, crying, Give me another
chance to do something worthy of an i'm
mortali Show me some post of danger to
be manned, some fortress TO be stormed.
some difficult charge to make. Like Leoni-
das at Thermopylae, like Mltiades at Ma
rathon, like Marlborough at Blenheim, like
Godfrey at Jerusalem, like Winkelried az
Sempaeh gathering the spears of the Aus
TRAN knights into his bosom, giving his
llfe for others; show me some place where
can do brave thing for God. 1 cannot
go back to heaven until somewhere bear
ln my body the marks OF the Lord Jesus"
My hearer, nv reader, quit complaining
about your misfortunes and disappoint-
ments and troubles and through all time
and all eternity thank God for scars.
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