Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-09-13


hospital had contracted the disease or
leprosy within radius OF seventy
miles from the point where the first
case Of Canadian leprosy was discoV-
cred. Convinced of its 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. Molokal, the leper reservation
for the islands of the Pacific, was es'
tablished. In the Holy Land the Jews
and gentiles alike drive their own lepi
rous kitb 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 sightiess. some with
cracked and bleeding lips, come down
the mountain side and In hoarse, pip.
ing voices beg for food and money. IL
seems to be very heartless method
thus to isolate the lepers, but the ori-
entails say. Better that u few men and
women starve and die, better that a
few infectious lepers be exiled from
civilization, than that whole commu'
nifty sicken and be destroyed"
The poet has well described the iso-
latlon Of the infectious lepers In the
east lest the rest of the community
might be stricken:
Room for the leper. room" and as ne
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 "hose
name
Was woven in the fbers Of his heart to
come and speak
Comfort unto him. Yea. he went fortn
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 when
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 1t not STAR
Ting reflection that the people whom
we are most liable to destroy by our
sins are those who may be nearest ana
dearest to us? 1t will be the mother,
herself stricken with the leprosy or
sin. who will destroy her own daugh'
ter: the father his own son. the BROTH
or his own brother, the wife her SIS
ter. Kindred ties and companionship
will only serve to facilitate the trans
mission OF tie deadly infection. There
fore should we not feel as did Robert
Z. Lee when he was one winter morn
ing walking svPr the SHOWS OF AIRING
toni AS he looked back he saw his
ten-year-old 10y trying to stretch his
legs TO sten in bis fathers tracks.
Then said the greatest man thc soutn
has produced for many year. III my
boy is going TO try to walk in the path
I am walking in. | must he very care
full that always walk In the pain OF
purity and truth and homer ald right.
If our dear ones. those closest to us III
life are those most in DAM OF m!ec'
tion from our spiritual leproSy. there
l., tt.ltR
IL not for CUR own. we s"Ou.d seek inc
ldivine reymicldc. To haze the cleansing
which Nauman. the leper, received
when, Mt Gods command. he dippeo
seven times In the river Jordan ana
his flesh became like unto that OF q
little child
The Infection of SIN.
Nav none of us ever experience the
remorse a broken hearted father telI
many years ago He was bending over
the bleeding body OF his only son. VINO
had lust been brought home in dying
condition from drunken carousal.
"Oh. my chlldr" he cried. why did
YOU do this! Why have you broken
YOUR mothers and fathers heartsT
The dyiny boy cruelty Looked up into
.he face Of his weeping parent ano
answered: why. father. what are you
CRYING for? am dying as the result OIL
vour sins as we'll aS mine. You nrs'
taught ME to drink at your own table
You are as much to blame ~ |. Yes
the infectious results of our own lep
rous Gins are evidenced In the temporal
and eternal destruction Of those wh'
ought to be nearest ana dearest 10 ou'
affectionate hearts.
Leprosy is to be found In the homes
of the rich and the poor alike: IN I'M
naloce and In the hovel: at the king
banouet table, as well as In the beg
. ears' gutter. Ff many years the wori'
supposed that leprosy was able u
thrive only in the pestllential alleys an'
, filthy dens Of the east. That supposi
tion was totally wrong. Leprosy ma.
, originally start among the low socia
outcasts. but the leprous germs cal
i've and thrive under the dazziint
! lights OF a brilliant ballroom as wei
, as in the sitting air of the DARK move
of a criminals retreat. BY handling til'
coin which is publicly used In India
, traveller may become infected with lep
, rosy, some leper having handled TN
, same coin. BY simply touching rocl
, at the foot OF which leprous Degga
. had crouched prince. arrayed In al
' the brilliant robes Of royalty. may be
4 come leper.
, A few years ago the most Influential
q man of the kings court in the SAND
A wich Islands was supposed to be al
I. eccentric individual because he AWAY
q wore glove upon bis left hand Du
4 one day that courtier was compelled
0 take off his kid glove, and ne wa
|. found to be leper.
The Indifference of the Rich. '
). The last people on earth to beiiev