Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-05-18

earned by pam ana cii"e IS
nr,, u,e have lost. You who have SUI
arod like the leper of my text or ike
,cores and hundreds Of us who nave
,ossed through years of pain anu
weakness then you know why l pus
The blessing of physical heai'h III 'n0
of this sermon.
The Leper's History
Iove Won never by personal eXperi-
onco hcen able to picture the distress
,f This poor leper of my text before he
.,os oomnelled to confess himself
1oneIess leper? 1 have often l hase
sometimes imagined him one OF .ne
pt,lwart men of the east. nave III
o,nod him grow healthy boy,
healthy Young man, and then marty'
ue has a beautiful home dear VIM
and a couple Of lovely children an
mat is possible to make young man
ufo boppy is his But one day "illio
taI.ino hath he sees n little White
NOT inst over his left shoulder Ile
dooo NOT think much of 1t at first. re
tries to rub 1t away, but 1t VIII not luD
of Then in week or TWO nc 9eeo
1ho+ this small white spot Is growing
',ttIo larger A month later he mas II
ntru little larger. He tries 10 mas,
sooe II with a rough towel, Dut 1t WIZ
NOT rub out. Now he begins TO nave n.'
srsnicions. His face takes on "or-
riad look He does not tell any one'
onor bls wife. Now he cannot sleep
we'll at night. lie becomes cross anu
,rritohle one night his wife misses
hin, from her side She gets up 10 nnu
ont where he is gone. She finds hlni III
tbe next room bending over tne sleep
Inc children. He is weeping ana "rihS
ING his hands, saying, "Oh' VINO wiz
look after these children ai'er "n
gonaqo "What is the matter nus,
hord9v she SAYS. "YOu are not goils
70 leove the babies, are your Is any
hing the matterT He says, "No'hins
nothIng." for he dare not tel iei tn'
I, truth Then he feels himself gr"uu"i''
growing weaker and weaker
One day he faints dead away. W Whei
Tho servants undress him to put MN
- he'd they find out his true conuIr,ol n,p -
ue is leper, a doomed leper' lne
/ mov drive him out from the hon'
II rhev drive him out from the haoit'
Ie ions of man. They drive him out
u to- ,,,.n and 70 die among the lepers Inu
vou can see how grateful 'ha' Iep,
70 ,ucht 70 have been when jesus olu'l
ie od oway the fatal scales OF lepro'
III from off his breast and arms ana ne'
y ond forehead. DO you wohuer ~
10 that leper returned to tnahA "0u
49, his physical health!
90 Thanks For Health.
* Oucht not scores and hundreds vi
20 - +honl. God for our restored ph!si'
Id. rooI,h9 Some of us well rememl
ay +ho dov when he never expecteu ~
be- strong and well, as we are now, =,
nd hans your physical history has Dc
yas that If many. Perhaps we came
the 20 twontv or twenty-five years OF
ted ,ovor knew what it was to nave
ad anha or a pain. Then disease nA'
my creeping paralysis, got hola on
ave Thon our health came back u 10
we ,ost &c miraculously as dld lne
nd ntorod health of the ancient leper'
be eoI+ "a one snatched from the lol
ul." like the leper Of old, are you s%s' ,,rs
sful 70 God for that restoreu pNs .
the hoolth? Remember there was
US when YOU would gladly nave si Z,
les. ororv dollar you owned to be physi
oeds go o,I 90 Won are today. Now
you glorifylng God, like the iepe' Il "n
o o,d for your restored physical hea a
- % Oh the inestimable blessings .
1ui oorrd nhysical body! Who would
VINO soun ,.oon silent lips when God has
sing blessed him with sounu pig
MN; I pnt next TO the blessing Of phy'
ocia' ot+b for what do you suppose
'atn- ne ,"nor Of old thanked Jesusf DO
'ther Imnoso lepu that cleansed leper kept X
'ne, .naT inc at Jesus feet, saying wa
' Ia Master 1 can never tn"nh
anu onouoh, will never leave tne'
cur u-im always stay by thy side II
'.lchs ,'.;it only let meY No, do not pe
fortn ,ot 1n Ionor did any such thing.
uaS, uot M believe he stayed with ChrisI
~ ,iI ~ lone think he ran to Christ ~
mn ,T ,ns his thanks. Then he said:
llui.r tor want to run home ana se
Id" .,co and children and father
. IL | oil m dear OIleS.
Sc tS .So want to tell them what you nay e !,
s. 'ne mo want to take them
IePeio rms and kiss them, just as u'
lnei, do before these fatal scales came
anu NV breast" Then l think Jesus
ar nnr rS HGo my son, go! Go ana tel tel
." an door ones the glad news. l nave
le c"i, thom TO YOU to love just as
ies' ,a GIVEN YOU your physical health
lhiec- a tbot cleansed leper runni
nnss ward his old home. hear -, -,
p"S" os he goes: Jesus has given III
Inseu' nv father and mother ana D'
b" ond sisters and wife and HUI
ly text dren. Thank God for my II
ly and Lomor THANK God" AS you
ibh hi' Cod today IOI yum P"' 4
Il am are YOU also thanking HIM
back at sanctity and the purity and tue
hat he your domestic circle!
lhein' Thanks For Relatives
,,orified DO YOU thank him for your
: a. his cribs? Dc you thank him Il
: was a wife's tender, gentle companl
It man. DO you thank God because }
If those mother is yet alive and that sh'
t giving thinking and planning ana pra
a lesson her boy, no matter where sne
" bless Won thank God because your u'
e cleans, ioys are your joys and peca'
forward sorrows of life are lesseneu
tan VINO willingness to help you sna,
~ Have you ever thanked COD
my text tnenite ioy he has given to yc