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

terrain Church, Chicago
Chicago. Sept. by a vivid, star
Ting parallel Rev. Frank De Witt Tai
mage portrays the evil of sin and its
remedy. His text is IL Kings, v, 1,
But he was leper."
The best blood in all Europe flows
into the army. The keenest of brains
are covered by the soldiers cap. The
pcasantry are overtaxed and brow
beaten and flung under the iron heel
Of oppression in order that the gilt
laced officer, who is the scion of an
aristocratic family, may have soft
couch upon which to sleep and clean
limbed thoroughbred upon which to
cayort while he salutes the reviewing
officer during dress parade. Eye.y
civilian Is at the beck and call of the
military-from the innkecpers daugh-
ter, flirting with the sergeant or the
young corporal, up to the princess
smiling mt the favorte staff officer Of
her father. the king. The Germln
shOpkeeper will turn his back upon
you in an instant If the clank Of tae
sword is heard and tie glitter of tle
shoulder strap is seen in the doorway.
On account Of this foolish alteration by
a cringing populace the foreign officer
or private soldier has grown arrogant
and conceited and snObbish and super
cilious and pctulant and spoiled.
The Syrian milton was military IA
ton. with all that the word implies
ard Captain Naaman was the CON
mander in chief OF all its armies, the
headquarters Of which were TO be
found in the Damascus capital. But
Naaman welded higher innuer CO
than that which belongs even to the
greatest soldier of a military kingdom.
The phrase used by the inspired his
torian. 81 great man with his master,
and honorable" implies that lie held
Il position more powerful in the king
dom than the head of the pliyy council,
the prime minister or the secretary Of
state or secretary Of the treasury, and
he may have held. through the prestige
Of his military successes. some or all
Of these offices in his own person, as
great pashas often do in oriental lands.
He occupied practically the same pest
ton in the Damascus capital that The
Duke of Wellington occupied after the
battle of Waterloo. The Duke of Wei
| lingtOn, by the overthrow Of the Ma
poleonic dynasty. not only became The
prime minister Of England, but for
Inwhile the most influential statesman
in all Europe Naaman had In Dumas
Gus an influence similar to that of Ju-
/ Illus Caesar when he returned to Rome
from his foreign victories or which Ma
polcon held in the French nation when
he was first consul as we'll as the com
mander Of the French lcglons. Naa
man was rs mighty in influence as was
the French cardinal who used to OYER
lave his king IN the council chamber
when he would stamp mp and down
the room. crying: ut shall be done!
say it shall he done! am Richie lei
who says it. and it shall be done" AND
when the great French Statesman
would thus speak the frightened kinl
dared not answer word.
The symbol of Sin.
But after have shown you Naamin'i
fame and power in the Syrian nation
= after | have figuratively piled stOn'
upon stone and height upon height ant
mountain upon mountain in settini
forth this pyramid Of human greatness
the whole structure tumbes into ruin
when ! speak the words Of my text.
bring the mightiest human influence o
the east down to the lowest depths o
earthly misery. bring Naaman dow
from his high pedestal until even tn
! poor beggar in the street might hay
cause to pity him. | bring him dow
until not one physically well mar i
all the world, no matter how low h
might be in the social scale. would eN
change places with him. Naaman wa
= Il prince. Naaman was mighty mi
T itary potentatc, statesman, Il rule
o He was practically greater than kim
!, but he was leper."
The disease Of leprosy has often lee
Bibically used as the symbol Of sin.
= 1t is Il most impressing and appallin
] symbol We in America cannot re;hi2
all that is implied by comparing an
a. mans spiritual condition to this hOrl
bic disease. In the far east have sec
with lOathing some Of the awful IA
ages of this disease. would desCril
u. i'm symbol some of the horrors of sin
= telling what my own eyes have see
: and what my own ears have heal
y among those poor creatures physical
doomed.
Leprosy, humanity speaking, Is an
durable disease. Scientists ever sin
history began have been studying t
onward march of this fatal destroy,
%. Although most prevalent in the Ell
- it Is confined to no climate and Il; |
= culiar to 10 age. race or conditiC
IT, Nearly 1000 years before Christ W
rs born in Bethlehem we read that NJ
er lam. who led the Hebrew maideIls
" the triumphant dance when Phar;lOl
I'd, host was submerged in the Red s.
was afflicted with leprOsy because S
became sim llly Jealous. Miriam W
: Jealous because her brother Mos
I eighty years of age. fell in love a
wanted to take wife. Clear back
1916 IIolbpln the artist. painted Il I
~ ture of Elizabeth distributiRx bread
the unclean lepers of Augsburg. L
ers among the lcebergs of the TOT
. lepers haSking in the torrid heats ub
the equator. lPpers in Europe. lepcrs
10, Asia. lcpefs in Africa. lepers in An
- lea. lepers in the islands Of the Sc
Inn But. though leprosy has been found
fac the scientists everywhere. yet one {
lies is universally recognized about the
ice. easc-it Is incurable. A man who
in Tie Ieprous POISON N his system
les no hope frOm MEDICINE. He n
grow worse and worse until he c0l
o sa to the grave 1t is as incurable AS
bills disease which we call cancer
~, which is only Il little less fatal In
3 in hideOus and repulslve results than
rosy. When General Grant was
FL. ferlng from an affection of the thr
. the family physicians feared a {
Al Ger. But. to be upon the safe sid,
Uy their diagnosis, they took to spe'
ist small part Of the eXcresicC
from the throat. "Now," the doc
said to that specialist, this exc
II cenee Is from a man of very great
LIZ tional influence. We will not tell
-. his name. as it might bias your j.
ment" The gDecialist Dlaced the