Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-09-08


ity." He wandered up and down the
London slums until at last he found
hideOus looking mortal, a man who
seemed to be monster without a soul.
After the artist had used this hideou
model and finished his companion pic
ture he found. to his establishment,
that the two models were the same.
The model of "Depravity" was the
once beautiful child, who had become
depraved by the fatal disease of lep-
rous sin. which had wrought the hor-
rible transformation in face and fig
ure, in body and soul. So, my broth
er, though this disease of leprous sin
may take many years to develop, yet
it will surely permeate the mind and
soul until both perish in horrible and
lOathsome corruption.
Leprosy is an infectious disease. 1t
is infectious as the scarlet fever germ
is infectious. 1t is spread throughout
community only by the leprous germ
Of one physical body being brought in
to contact with another physical body
when the latter is in condition favor
able for the development of that lep-
IOuS SCIm. Illus III tuG ldZdI house
established in New Brunswick, Can
| ada, in 1865, it was found by investi-
| cation that every one of the ninety
patients confined within that leprous
hospital had contracted the disease of
| leprOsy within a radius of seventy
miles from the point where the first
case of Canadian leprosy was discov-
cred. Convinced of it's infectious char
acter, DIR. Emerson, who was for many
years in the employ of the Hawaiian
| government, gave as his testimony that
it is utterly useless to fight the leprous
disease in any other way than by iso-
lation.
The TerrOrs of LeprOsy.
To isolate the lepers of the Hawaiian
Islands, Molokai, the leper reservation
for the islands Of the Pacific, was es-
tablished. In the Holy Land the Jews
and gentiles alike drive their own lep-
| rous kith and kin from their sides into
| isolation. They exclude them from the
cities and the towns. AS you travel
through the east those lepers, some
with their arms and teeth gone, some
on crutches, some sightless, some with
cracked and bleeding lips, come down
the mountain side and in hoarse, pip
ing voices beg for food and money. 1t
seems to be very heartless method
thus to isolate the lepers, but the orr
entails say, Better that a few men and
women starve and die, better that
few infectious lepers be exiled from
civilization, than that whole commu-
nifty sicken and be destroyed"
The poet has well described the iso-
latiOn Of the infectious lepers in the
east lest the rest of the community
might be stricken:
Room for the leper, ROOM" and as he
came
The cry passed on, Room for the leper.
ROOM.
And he went forth alone not one of all
The many whom he loved nor she whose
name
Was woven in the f1bers of his heart to
come and speak
Comfort unto him. Yea. he went forth
his way
Sick and heartbroken and alone to die,
For God had cursed the leper.
AS the disease of leprosy is fatally
Infectious. so are the leprous germs of
sin. The evil which is within us is
very apt to become the evil which
shall dwell within others. The wrongs
we do against our own selves are
truly apt to become the sins which
others shall do unto themselves also,
and as this infection implies that to
scatter the germs of sin we must come
in contact with others is it not star
ting reflection that the people whom
we are most liable to destroy by our
sins are those who may be nearest and
dearest to us? 1t will be the mother,
herself stricken with the leprosy of
sin. who will destroy her own daugh-
ter; the father his own son, the broth
er his own brother, the wife her Sis
ter. Kindred ties and companionship
will only serve to facilitate the trans
mission of the deadly infection. There
fore should we not feel as did Robert
E. Lee when he was one winter morn
ing walking over the SHOWS of Airing
ton? AS he looked back he saw his
ten-year-old boy trying to stretch his
legs to step in his fathers tracks.
Then said the greatest man the south
has produced for many year, eff my
boy is going to try to walk in the path
am walking in, l must be very care
full that | always walk in the path of
purity and truth and honor and right"
If our dear ones, those closest to us in
life, are those most in danger of infec-
ton from our spiritual leprosy. there
is another reason why, for their sakes
If not for our own, we should seek the
divine germicide, to have the cleansing
which Naaman, the leper, received
when, at Gods command, he dipped
seven times in the river Jordan and
his flesh became like unto that of a
little child.
The Infection of SIN.
May none Of us ever experience the
remorse a broken hearted father felt
many years ago. He was bending over
the bleeding body of his only son, who
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