Milford chronicle., 1904-04-29

And war his hundred thousands Of the
very best of men,
But T'-'twas thus the bottle spake-"but
1 have conquered more
Than all your famous conquerors' 30
famed and feared Of yore.
Then come, We youths and maidens all
come. drink from out my cup
The beverage that dulls the brain and
burns the spirit up,
That puts to shame the conquerors VINO
slay their scores below,
For ! have deluged millions with the IaFa
tide Of woe!
Though in the paths OF battle darkest
waves OF blood may roll,
Yet while l killed the body I have also
damned the soul!
The cholera, the plague, the SWORD such
ruin never wrought
As I, in mirth or malice, on the innocent
have brought.
And still l 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 in Christ's
name escape now? viii you not, o
drunkard, promise with Gods help to
let your scarlet sins be cleansed whittier
than the driven snow?
Christ Ready to 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. lie forgave the sins of Rahab.
who concealed the Hebrew spies; he
forgave the sins Of David, who stole
the poor mans eve; he forgaye the
sins of the dssolute woman who talk
ed with him at the Samaritan well; he
forgave the sins of the woman de-
nOunced by the scribes, to whom he
turned and said: Woman, where are
thine accusers? Doth no man con
denim thee? Neither do l condemn
thee. Go and sin no more" Christ is
ready to 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 libertin-
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 p"!Hits. are often
ready to 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
wayward daughter in the beautiful
story in Ian Maclaren's Bonnie Brier
Bush" He profossed to believe in the
unlimited power of Gods forgiveness,
yet when his only daughter, his moth
erless girl. his one child, who WIS all
to him. had been led into sin he turned
to the clerk of the village kirk and
said: aye. blot her name off the
books! She is my child, but blot her
name off 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-
lene. Though your sins against mo-
raity may be as scarlet. they shall be
whittier than the driven snow.
st. Yitalis was a poor monk who in
the seventh century was supposed TO
haunt the evil resorts of the AleXan-
drian capital. For many years the peO-
pie thought he was a hypocrite and a
libertine. One early morning. when
seen coming out of IA place Of evil re-
sort. he was fatally struck down by a
passerby. 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 it was found out by testi-
mony that for years he had given his
! life to saving social Outcasts. What
Christian women are doing for ex-con-
victs ST. Vitalis was doing for fallen
men and fallen women. At his funeral
| those social Outeasts, whom he had by
the power of the Holy Spirit rescued
marched in front of his bier chanting
| this cry: we have lost our delivererl
| We have lost our instructor! God help
us! God help us" Today Christ is
willing to go into the lowest brothel
and into the naHnts 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 as scarlet, they shall be as
white as the driven snow; though they
be red as crimson, they shall be as
/ wool"
Pardon For All.
Christ is ready to forgive the MUIR
! derer's sins. BY that do l mean that
he is ready to forgive the highwayman
who, with lifted gun, shoots down the
innocent pedestrian? By that do mean
! that Christ is ready to forgive the