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

his name, as 1t might bias your Judg-
ment." The specialist placed the ex-
crescence under the microscope. After
carefully examining 1t he said: 1T Is
n fatal cancer. Who's throat did 1t
come from?' General U. S. Grants
was the answer. Then" said the great
bacterlologlst. General Grant Is DOOM
ed He must die"
The Souls AniictiOE.
How terrible are these diseases that
physicians confess themselves unable
to cure. How startling. then, Is the
divine statement that the soul may be
afflicted with snch disease similarly
beyond human medicament. Sin is
leprosy. Sin Is the cancer of the soul
gnawing at its titals Sin is the fore
runner OF eternal DEATH There are
men today within the sound OF my
voice who IN their own strength have
been lighting 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 doomed leper. You are
doomed by leprOus sin.
But though from our standpoint lep.
rosy Is incurabe. yet the leprous scales
were cleansed by divine power.
Therefore 1t 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 hy word. When the
fen lepers came to the Saviour plead
ing for help. Christ turned and said:
60 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 ike the
flesh OF little child. . my brother
and sister, you who are cursed with
leprous sin. will you not come to the
divine fountain? Will you not bathe
in Christ's blood? VIII you not today
by the Calvary cross seek supernatural
medicament?
Leprosy may take n very long time
in which to fatally develop. although
such is not always the way the dis
ease progresses. Sometimes the scourge
in a few months may change a beautl-
ful body into hideous corpse, but the
quick result is the exception and not
the rule. At this first touch or lep-
rosy usually there may only be hard
ness. or rather numbness, Of the
skin in spot about the size OF ten
cent piece. The skin at that one place
merely turns as white as snow. II
YOU know nothing about the disease,
you may not worry about 1t. You
may, for long time, be Indifferent 10
the numbness. Then. some day when
YOU are in n physicians office seeking
advice for some other cause, you may
turn TO the doctor and say: by tne
way. doctor. have very peculiar
something the matter with my hand.
It does not hurt me, but II is numb IN
one place" Then the physician with
n grave face will look at your hand
Then he will take pin out or the
lapel OF his coat and prick that spot.
Then he will turn and say: "You are
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, saw standing
in one OF the wards beautiful faxen
haired baby boy. lie was only about
six or seven years Of age. He was
one of the healtElest looking and pret'
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 MS
mouth sucking it as some OF us per
hans have suc;eI our thumbs wher
we were children turned and saic
to the lovely bGy. Why are you herer
"Got the disease" he answered
"WhereY' said rs the great tear :
gan to rain down my cheeks. The ia(
raised one Of his pretty bare legs
Then, pointing to the ball of his foot
he said, There 1t Is" As | looked
could hardly keep back my sobs.
saw In the ball Of his foot the rata
white mark. 1t was like beautiful
snowflake. The child vas doomed
He was leper.
But. though leprosy may come IN
seemingly harmless way. the dlseas
for four. five. ten. even fifteen year
will keep on steadily spreading. Ii WI
spread until the fingers fall off from tn
hands and the toes from the feet. ltwi
keen on spreading until the skin bloat
and cracks and the hair falls out. .
leprous sin. coming In seemngl
harmless way. will keep OH spreauln
until it makes the face hideous' I'd
body deformed. 1t may keep on sprea'
, ing for years until at last the rata
, leprous sin will destroy the body a
well as the soul
1t Is related that young Englls
artist. desiring to paint the figure
"Innocence." used as a model the fac
, of lovely little child. The eyes, I'll
lins and the smile Of his model wei
, tie most beautiful heeversaw. All Eni
a land came to admire the picture. Man
years afterward, when the artist ha
o attained TO great fame. he decided
. paint a companion picture to the one
had paInted in his youth. He wante
! 70 call the companion picture "Depra'
= lsy." He wandered up and down IL
London slums until at last be found
. hldeous looking mortal, man WI
:, seemed to be a monster without sou
After the artist had used this hideot
;. model and finished his companion pi