Arizona republican., 1909-07-18
UNION MEETING: IN < THE CAMP GROUND
"The Healing Touch" Wiii be the
 Topic For the Gathering. of Young
 Peoples Societies Sunday Night, July IS. ..

The union meetins of the young peoples societies of the Protestant churches of the city. Sunday evening, will be held at the camp meeting ground in the Brill addition, at pm. It will be led by Miss Elizabeth Greene of the Christian church. There will be good music; singing will be led by MT. Kerr. Topic will be The Healing Touch" Scripture reference. Mark 1:4O:45. Following is the commence mcnt on the lesson taken from the Epworth Herald:
 Light From Great Luminsries.
 The ceremonial law made it defile- ment to touch a leper Yet Jesus stretched forth his hand, and touched him" O lovely symbol of the SaViour's relation to us sinners He has in his holy incarnation touched our leprous humanity; and. remaining stainless himself. heals all who will let him touch them with pure heart of love
 When a man declare to me, "I can not believe in miracles" I reply "I can. because l have witnessed them" When and where?" "On a certain street in this city is a man who was a week ago given over to every form of vice and brutality, and who is now a good citizen. an honest workman, a kind husband, a loving father, a pure, upright man. Surely, that is such a miracle as makes me forever believe in the possibility of miracles. Pro lessor DrummOnd.
 On the cliffside I have seen the coast guardsman walking to. and fro, every now and then lifting the glass to his eyes and looking forth upon the ships that come and go-the mighty mem of war, the great ocean steamers, the white sailed merchantmen, the fishermen's boats. the dainty yachts but there is little heed to these A-sin- gle glance is enough; and then he goes, on his way, taking no second look But see; he stops. He looks more carefully; he looks again, eagerly. What is it that makes him so intent? Now he runs to the flagstaff and sends, some signal to the masthead. He rushes away to gather the lifeboat crew. Wonder there is 9 flag of dis tress. Talk to him now of the men of-war; of the steamers and yachts; he resents it angrily That poor craft wonder is to him the only ship in the world Remind him of the glories of the sky and the wonders of the tide; 1t is an impudence. He has no eve, no thought. for anything else but that ship in danger-Mark Guy Pearse.
 You remember the story of the leper which the poet Swinburne has woven into one of his most beautiful. He tells about lady at the French court in the Middle Ages, who was stricken with leprosy She had been cOurted, flattered, idolized. and almost worship ed for her wit and beauty by the king, princess, and all the royal train, until she was smitten with leprosy. Then her very lovers hunted her forth as. a banned and God -forsa1en thing; every door in the great city of Paris was slammed in her face; no one would give her drop of water or piece of bread: the very children spat in her face, and fled from her as a pestilen- tial thing, until poor clerk, who had loved the great lady a long way off. and had never spoken to her until then. took her to his house for pity's sake, and nursed her until she died. and he was cast out and cursed him self by all the religious world for do- ing it. That was what the leper had become in the Middle Ages, and some thing like that he was among the Jews of our Sayiour's time. That was the thing that lay at Christ's feet, and on which that pure, gentle hand was laid. -GreenouSh.
 As we looked on those wrecks of humanity we saw with what fitness leprosy is made the emblem of sin hereditary, contagious. ever tending to increase, and incurable, except by di- vine power-Thomason
 But misery which he could relieve did not repel Jesus; it attracted him It is a parable of all his course, this laying of a clean hand on the sin of the world to cleanse it.-Cartoons of St Mar.- 20
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