Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-09-12

voice who in their own strength have
been fighting sin for the last twenty
or thirty years. But as you grow
weaker the power of your sin is grow
ing stronger. God have pity upon you,
for you are a doomed leper. You are
doomed by leprous sin.
But though from our standpoint lep-
rosy is incurable, yet the leprous scales
were cleansed by a divine power.
Therefore it is to Christ and to Christ
alone that we must look for the cure
of sin. The moral leper may go with
confidence to Christ, who cured the
physical lepers by word. When the
ten lepers came to the Saviour plead
ing for help Christ turned and said:
Go show yourselves unto the priests.
And it came to pass as they went they
were cleansed" Naaman, the great
captain. was helpless in the hands of
his human physicians. On account Of
his wealth and fame Naaman-like
General Grant. afflicted with cancer
must have had the best doctors the
royal court Of Damascus could sum
mon; but when Naaman, Obedient to
the divine command through Elisha,
went and dipped seven times in the
river Jordan his flesh became like the
flesh Of little child. 0 my brother
and sister, you who are cursed with
| leprous sin, will you not come to the
divine fountain? Will you not battle
in Christ's blood? VIII you not today
| by the Calvary cross seek supernatural
medicament?
Leprosy may take a very long time
in which to fatally develop, although
such is not always the way the dis
ease progresses. Sometimes the scourge
in few months may change a beauti-
full body into hideous corpse, but the
quick result is the exception and not
the rule At this first touch Of lep-
rosy usually there may only be a hard
ness, or rather n numbness, of the
skin in Il spot about the size of ten
cent piece. The skin at that one place
| merely turns as white as snow. If
you know nothing about the disease,
you may not worry about it. You
may. for n long time, be Indifferent to
the numbness. Then, some day when
you are in a physicians office seeking
advice for some other cause, you may
turn to the doctor and say: by the
way. doctor, | have a very peculiar
something the matter with my hand.
1t does not hurt me. but it is numb in
one place" Then the physician with
a grave face will look ut your hand.
Then he will take a pin out Of the
lapel of his coat and prick that spot.
Then he viii turn and say: you are q
leper! You are already doomed, al
though death may be many years
away"
The Fatal White Mark.
When going through one of the leper
hospitals of Calcutta, l saw standing
IN one Of the wards a beautiful aaxen
haired baby boy. He was only about
six or seven years of age. He was
one of the healthiest looking and pref
test children | ever saw. He was the
son Of an English soldier. He was
such lovely boy, and while his great
big eyes were looking at me he was
standing there with his thumb in his
mouth sucking It rs some Of us per
haps have sucked our thumbs wheI
we were children. | turned and saiC
to the lovely boy, "Why are you hereT
Got the disease" he answered
''Where?" said | as the great tears be
gan to rain down my cheeks. The laC
raised one of his pretty bare legs
Then, pointing to the ball of his foot
he said, There it is" As looked
could hardly keep back my sobs.
saw in the ball of his foot the fata
white mark. 1t was like a beautiful
snowflake. The child was doomed
He was leper!
But. though leprosy may come in
seemingly harmless way. the diseas
for four. five, ten. even fifteen year
will keep on steadily spreading. 1t wi
spread until the fingers fall off from th
, hands and the toes from the feet. Itwi
keep on spreading until the skin bloat
and cracks and the hair falls out.
, leprous sin. coming In Il seemingl
harmless way, will keep on spreadin
until 1t makes the face hideous. tn
: body defOrmed. 1t may keep on spreat
ing for years until at last the fat
. leprous sin will destroy the body 8
well as the soul.
! 1t is related that a young Englis
artist. desiring to paint the figure {
; Innocence" used as a model the fat
9 Of lovely little child. The eyes, IL
Y lips and the smile of his model we
+ themOst beautiful heeversaw. All En-
4 land came to admire the picture. Maj
= years afterward. when the artist hi
e attained to great fame. he decided
Y paint companion picture to the one
n had painted in his youth. He wantI
d to call the companion picture ''Depra'
y ity" He wandered up and down II
London slums until at last he found
= hideous looking mortal, man WI
e seemed to be n monster without a sou
le After the artist had used this hideol
7. model and finished his companion pi
t ture he found to his astonishmen
e. that the two models were the sam
n. The model of "Depravity" was Il
IS once beautiful child, who had becOn
T. depraved by the fatal disease Of lie
IN rous sin. which had wrought the he
g rible transformation in face and ii
a, ure, in body and soul. So, my brot
ne er, though this disease of leprOus S
rs may take many years to develop, y
IS, it will surely permeate the mind ~
I'd soul until both perish in horrible al
IN lOathsome corruption.
Ic- Leprosy is an infectious disease.
to is infectious as the scarlet fever ger
p is infectious. 1t is spread throughout
III. community only by the leprOus ger
ut of one physical body being brought
in to contact with another physical DO
err when the latter is in a condition fave
Is! able for the development of that Il
by rous germ. Thus in the lazar hot
let established in New Brunswick. CT
is ada in 1865. it was found by inves
las cation that every one of the nine
las patients confined within that leprC
lst hospital had contracted the disease
les leprosy within radius Of sever
nat miles from the point where the fl
md case of Canadian lepr0sy was disc
its cred. Convinced of its infectious Oh
en- acter, DR.. Emerson, who was for ma
uf- years in the employ of the Hawai-
,at. government. gave as his testimony Il
an it is utterly useless to fight the lepr'
in disease in any other way than by
ial- lation.
moo The TerrOrs of LeprOsy.
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