THOSE SCARS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 18, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 20.

THOSE SCARS.

By Editor

A BATTLE-SCARRED veteran was a candidate for office, and a compatriot had been vigorously opposing his election. But when election time came round, and the bitter opponent was about to cast his vote, the scarred face of the old hero confronted him. Then the tears suddenly came to his eyes, and he loudly declared that he could not resist those scars, and cast his vote for the one he had been opposing. As we read of this incident we wondered why such an argument does not make more disciples for the crucified Hero who "tasted death for every man," and that too "while we were yet sinners," while yet at enmity against Him and against His law. If scars marking faithful service in behalf of some temporal cause of limited extent be worthy of grateful remembrance, how much more those scars received in the loving service of procuring undeserved favor for condemned sinners. Reader, if you have yet any sentiment of gratitude for noble service rendered in which your welfare is concerned, think of those scars that tell of the sufferings on Calvary's cross.

If the judgment books shall reveal that your faith is firmly fixed in Him who gave His life a ransom for your life, if the record of the deeds done in the body shall show a hope anchored within the heavenly veil, the scars in that head and side, in those hands and feet, will attest the fact that your sins have been washed away in the precious blood of the Son of God.

"Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a tribute far too small; Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my life, my soul, my all."