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


no hope from medicine. He must
grow worse and worse until he comes
to the grave 1t Is as incurable as that
disease which we call cancer and
which is only little less fatal In its
hidsous and repulsive results than lep-
rosy. When General Grant was suf-
fering from an affection of the throat,
Ger. But, to be upon the safe side in
their diagnosis, they took to a special
list a small part of the excrEcence
from the throat. ''Now," the doctors
said to that specialist, this excres-
cence is from a man of very great ma
tional influence. We will not tell you
his name, as it might bias your judg-
ment" The specialist placed the ex-
crescence under the microscope. After
carefully examining it he said: 1T is
a fatal cancer. Who's throat did it
come from?'' General u. S. Grants"
was the answer 'Then," said the great
bacteriologist, General Grant is doom
ed. He must die"
The Souls Addiction.
physicians confess themselves unable
to cure! How startling, then, is the
divine statement that the soul may be
afflicted with such a disease similarly
beyond human medicament. Sin is a
leprosy. Sin is the cancer of the soul
gnawing at its vitals. Sin is the fore
runner of eternal death. There are
A~1a he Sc
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-
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the divine command through Elisha,
went and dipped seven times in the
river Jordan his flesh became like the
flesh of little child. o 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? Will 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 a few months may change 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 hard
ness, or rather numbness, of the
skin in a spot about the size of a 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 a long time, be Indifferent to
the numbness. Then, some day when
you are in physicians Office seeking
advice for some other cause, you may
turn to the doctor and say: "By the
way. doctor, | have very peculiar
something the matter with my hand
1t does not hurt me, but it is numb in
one place." Then the physician with
grave face will look at your hand
Then he will take pin out of the
lapel of his coat and prick that spot
Then he will turn and say: you are 8
leper! You are already doomed, al
though death may be many years
away"
The Fatal White Mark.
When going through one of the lepel
hospitals of Calcutta, saw standing
In one of the wards a beautiful flaxer
haired baby boy. He was only about
six or seven years of age. He was
one of the healthest looking and pref
test children ever saw. He was hlt
son of an English soldier. He was
such lovely boy. and while his grea
big eyes were looking at me he was
standing there with his thumb in hi:
mouth sucking it as some of us per
haps have sucked our thumbs whe1
we were children. l turned and sait
to the lovely boy, why are you here?'
Got the disease" he answered
"Where?" said as the great tears be
gan to rain down my cheeks. The la,
raised one of his pretty bare legs
Then, pointing to the ball of his foot
he said, There it is" AS l looked
could hardly keep back my sobs.
saw in the ball of his foot the fata
white mark. 1t was like beautiful
cpowHaEa The child was dOomaf