Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-09-15
Caln1a;ge
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee. d. ID.

Los Angeles. Cal. Sept. DIN this
sermon the preacher makes novel sus-
gestions showing how we as commnni-
ties and us individuals may help TO inn
prove the lot of the unfortunate. The
text Is deuteronomy XIV. II. "fhe poor
shall never cease out of the land"
Turning TO that valuable and sugges-
Letter Bible. notice that this passage
In Deuteronomy Is printed In red. indl-
eating that IL was quoted 10y our Lord.
II Is astonishing how many of such
passages there are. showing how close
n student of the Scriptures Christ was.
Guided by this reference In the Red
Letter Bible. find the circumstances
under which christ quoted the passage.
II was AT that feast when Mary broke
the alabaster box OF spikenard over
Christ's feet. Judas said II was waste
full, MS the ointment might have been
sold and the money given to the poor.
but Jesus said there were other oppor
tunlties of giving To the poor. for. said
he. The poor ye have always with
you"
There were poor people during the
Mosaic era. There were poor people
during all the wealth and the splendor
OF the Solomonic reign. There were
novels aud rags covered by the shad-
ows OF the magnificent Grecian tenn
pies. Poverty aud gaunt want went
begging for bread during the Roman
trlumphs, when Christ lived. There
are poverty and rags and hunger now.
and there will be- poverty and want
upon this oil suffering world until the
nillennlal dawn. when the glory Of the
Lord shall cover the earth as the wa
tiers cover the seas. Poverty. haunting
poverty. Is everywhere.
We have today our poor in Europe,
Asia. Africa. South America and In
North America. We have them upon
every island of the seas in every town,
village and city and farming country.
We have an omnipresent poor. During
all the centuries from the beginning
this burden of poverty has been upon
the shoulders of large proportion OF
the race. calling for our sympathy and
our help. How long will II be before
the wisdom OF our social philosophers
and the commiseration OF Christs
church take up the problem and,
searching for the causes of the afiiic-
ton. find out how to remove them and
remedy the misery. ] know OF no duty
more urgent and II we find out In
studying the problem that In some
cases poverty In the result of social
evils let us 20 forward In Gods name
to eradicate them. May the Holy
Spirit help US to preach an appropriate
sermon on this Sabbath. following our
annual Labor day.
First among these evils ! place the
prenatal Influences which help crowd
our cities with the ominpresent poor.
In this matter let us be brave and
i uiiiiui. i.-i Us nvt sva; "po uia,i
lie silent on account OF mock modesty.
II Is better 10 have nm Inflammation
opened and the wound drained, no
matter how repulslve the odor. than to
allow the disease to go ON fostering and
eating its way into the vitals. There Is
many Il danger more horrible than the
surgeons knife.
was nightly impressed with this
fact some time ago. / had always a
horror Of the surgeons knife. felt
that man had better resort to every
thing and. anything rather than lie
down upon an operating table. But
some time ago the wife OF one of my
dearest church members telephoned me
70 come down 10 the hospital AT once.
rs her husband was about To he oper-
ated on. jumped on the car and went
down and arrived just three minutes
after the work had been begun. They
had carried the patient into the oper-
atlng room and were then giving him
the anacsthctic. paced up and down
the hall wondering what | should do.
felt that II was critical and might
be fatal operation. Should go In or
should | not? l had always stunned
the sight of the operating table be-
cause feared the spectacle of the
flowing blood. But as walked up and
down that hall said to myself: I'm all
probability this operation will be fatal.
My friend will die within a few hours
after he comes out of the anaesthetic.
VIII 1t not comfort him TO know that
stood 10y his side during his time OF
trial!" So said 10 one OF the nurses,
"Tell the doctor | should like to come
In" lie sent out word. "Come in"
have thanked God since that went In.
When that ulcer was opened. saw
then as | never realized before that n
man should not fear surgeons knife
which opened up a dangerous abscess
nearly as much as he should fear the
abscess which Is not opened Our
I friends life was saved by the narrow
est OF margins because he fatty re-
fused TO be operated upon until death
was literally clutchIng him by the
! throat.
Deadly Ulcer.
Now, as there was a deadly disease
eating into the vitals OF my friends
body, SO there is deadly disease eat
Ing into the very heart of our social
life. Thousands upon thousands OF our
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