Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-17
"BUT He WAS A LEPER'
Rev. Sunday Spoke to Packed House
at the Tabernacle Saturday
MIGHT.

But He Was a Leper,' taken from
the second book Of Kings, fifth chapter
and part Of the first verse, was the
subject dwelt upon by Rev. w. A. Sun
day, Saturday evening at the taber-
nacle. Mr.. Sunday in a lurid way,
showed where sinners of the present
day were lepers as we'll as the per.
sons affected with the disease in the
biblical days.
In his sermon the evangelist said
in part: ''Leprosy was disease pc
culiar in the Orient in those days, ana
always exceedingly loathsome. AS
j study it's pathology | am not surprised
that God used it as a type of SIN
With beginning so small as to escape
detection, but it spreads and spreads
until first the hand is covered, then the
arm, then the body and it lays hold
! with its Shiny coil upon nerve and
vein and artery and tissue, until the
rotting members slough and the
flesh drops oft. then he will possibly
heed but It is too late. can sec it as
the days come and go. First the
scales are few. but now they are
many At first the sores are few and
i, Sinai Dul iDW liltSS are ulohJ oh'
large until the entire surface of the
body is covered, and when it is too
late he awakens, in terror, to his
| peril
Il see LOT of young bucks. Wit.
their hats on one side of their head,
going into booze joints and in few
years they will be the dirt of the
cutters, down and cutters ready to
take the count and plunge into. hell. |
see many a girl walking the streets.
! flirting with Tom, Dick and Harry, and
| it will be but few years until she
| is in some red light district, mer-
chandising her womanhood for gain,
all because she insisted on going with
those Goddess, sneering, little buck
warts. who mock religion and sheer
at God.
Sin is Leprcsy.
Now. i'll the old days, the victims
of the disease were compelled to cry,
as they walked the streets, UN-
CLEAN! UNCLEAN!' and they were
compelled by law to turn to the wind
ward lest tie breeze might bear the
contamination of their body and thus
the innocent become afflicted with
The virus of the disease. The victim
was compelled to live in lonely part
of the city, awaiting until his teeth
| began to drop out, his eyes dropped
| from their sockets and his fingers
dropped from his hands, then he was
compelled by law to go out into the
tombs, the dying among the dead
| there he was to live until at last he
was gathered to the rotting remains of
his fathers.
"And so it is with sin. Sin begins
with the so-called innocent flirtations
| Society takes no note of that young
! girl keeping company with that good
for-nothing fellow. Society waits UNI
| til she is on the road to maternity, to
| become the mother Of an illegitimate
offspring, then society will slam the
door in her face and she is showed in
to the dark, fostering spot of some
great city. Society takes no note OF
the young fellow drinking at theil
banquets 1t waits until he becomes a
ragged, staggering, muttering, bleary
eyed, foul mouthed, vermin covered
maudlin drunkard, reeling to tbs
pit of hell and the judgment of God
then society will kick him out ant
slam the door in his face. Societ,
takes no heed of sin. 1t waits unit
it becomes a vice and then the dool
is shut
!, God warns you against sin, agains
the beginning OF thing that become.
a vice. That is why preach so mucf
on vice. to show you what sin will dt
when it brings forth its fruitage."