Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-04-30

! have conquered more
Than all your famous conquerors. so
famed and feared ~ yore.
Then come. W youths and maidens all
come. drink from out my cup
The bcvcrag. that dulls the brain and
burns the spirit up.
That pats to shame the conquerors who
slay their scores below.
For have deluged millions with the lava
tide of woe,
Though in the paths of battle darkest
waves of blood may roll.
Yet while killed the body I have also
damned the SOUL
The cholera the plague. the sword. such
ruin never wrought
As l. in mrth or malice. on the innocent
have brought.
And still | breathe upon them, and they
shrink before my breath.
And year by year my thousands tread the
dismal road of DEATH
From this awful doom of the drunk
ard will you not escape and i'm Christ's
name escape now: Will you not, o
drunkard. promise with Gods help to
let your scarlet sins he clcanscd whittier
than the driven snow?
Christ Ready 10 Forgive.
Christ is ready TO cleanse also the de-
bauchee's sins. BY that l mean Christ
Is ready To forgive those who have i'm
morally broken up the sanctity of the
home. He forgave the sins of Rahab,
who concealed the Hebrew spies: he
forgave the sins of David, who stole
the poor mans eve; he forgave the
sins of the dissolute woman who talk
ed with him nj the Samaritan well: he
for.avc the sins of the woman de-
nounccd 10y the scribes to whom he
turned AMI said: woman. where are
thine accusers? Doth no man con-
denim thee: Neither do I condemn
thee. Go and sin no more" Christ is
ready 10 forgive the social outcast's
sins. as he was ready to forgive the
scarlet sins Of the dying thief and the
murderer.
But. though the Bible declares there
is but one objectionable sin. and that
is the sin against the Holy Ghost. yet,
strange To say. most people are not
willing to forgive the sins of lbertin-
ism. especially if the social outcast be-
longs To the female sex. Alas, alas!
Even the best of men, the leaders in
our churches and pulpits. are often
ready Ia look upon the breakers of the
seventh commandment as moral de-
generates who have no chance for ul-
innate rescue either in this world or
in the next. Many people are apt to
look upon immoral outcasts in the
same way that the stern old Scottish
elder looked upon the actions of his
Maynard daughter in the beautiful
story in Ian Maclarcn's "BOnnie Brier
Bush" lie professed to believe in the
yet when his only daughter. his moth
erlcss girl. his one child. who was all
To him. had been led into sin he turned
To the clerk of the village kirk and
said: Aye. blot her name of the
books. She is my child. but blot her
name OF the books
But. oh. my brother and sister.
though man is hard upon fallen man.
and woman especially hard upon fallen
woman. yet God today offers pardon
and peace for every penitent Magda-
lcne. Though your sins against mo-
rality may he as scarlet. they shall be
whittier than the driven snow.
81. NitaliS WAS a poor monk who in
the seventh century was supposed to
haunt the evil resorts of the Alexan-
dran capital. For many years the peo-
pie thought he was hypocrite and q
libertinc. One early morning. when
seen coming out of Il place OF evil re-
l,.,
passcrby. with the scathing words.
How dare you. rascal-how dare you
outrage Christ by not mending your
wicked ways" But hardly had the
breath left the body OF the humble
monk than il was found out by testi-
life 10 saving social outcasts. What
Christian women are doin. for ex-con-
victs st. Nitalis was doing for fallen
men AMI fallen women. At his funeral
those social outcasts. whom he had by
the power of the Holy Spirit rescued.
marched in front of his bier. chanting
this cry: We have lost our deliverer!
We have lost our instructor. God help
us. God help us Today Christ is
willing TO go into the lowest brothel
and into the haunts of the immorally
vile and To say: come unto me and
will make thee pure. Come. every man.
Come. every woman. Though your
sins be rs scarlet. they shall he as
white as the driven snow; though they
lie red as crimson. they shall be as
WOOL
Pardon For All.
Christ is ready TO forgive the muir
dcrcrs sins. by that do | mean that
lie is ready To forgive the highwayman
Who with lifted gun. shoots down the
innocent pedestrian? by that do mean
that Christ is ready 10 forgive the
iiend who poisons the helpless child or
who in the dark night drives the knife
into the heart of his sleeping adver-
sary? Yes. Jesus is ready TO forgive
the convicted murderer though he
may he standing upon the scaffold I'M
der the hangman's moose. about TO ex-
plate his awful crime. Pardon for
air. is the meaning OF my text-par-
don and peace and eternal life for all,
no matter how vile. II i'm sincere re-
ppntaIcp they will come Ia him and