The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-20
THE TEN LEPERS.
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of Naim's son to her sorrowing loving heart and
Lazarus, like you corrupted and rotten He has
restored to life. Now He is coming. Though it
is the daylight, from your loathsome dens emerge.
The world may shout at you, Back, back, you are
unclean." Still, heed not its angry cry. Come out
from your and shout your cry to the Master,
Jesus Master have mercy on u.s."
contrite and humble heart Thou wilt never
despise, o Lord, sings the Psamist, and Christ
stops the road to Samaria, stops to heal the
and pour balm of consolation on weary, sor-
rowful hearts. "GO show yourselves to the priests
the words that came from His loving lips,
and the Gospel tells us chat they went they
were made clean" When man who is buried i'll
a loathsome tomb comes out once more to the light
of Gods day. and joins again the friends from
whom his dread disease had banished him, words
cannot describe the feelings of JOY and gadness
that fill his heart, and the kind hand that rolled
back the stone of the tomb and the merciful voice
that spoke the words of healing he will remember
forever. The lepers went their way and Jesus
was still in Samaria. Yes, back again to the world
nine of them went-to the world of push and rush,
pleasure and SIM and immersed in the worlds vain
and heeting things, the forgot the Christ in Sa-
maria. He was waiting there for their return with
these words their lips owe are grateful to
Thee 0 Master" He was waiting, yes and only
came, and Christ took him by the hand, while
these words came from his lips "Were not ten
made clean! Where are the nine? Go thy way;
thy faith hath made thee whole"
Leprosy is a figure of sin. Out there in the
world there many moral lepers dwelling in the
caves of their impurities and those other vices
which disfgure soul and body In the words of the
Psalmist, "They are corrupt and abominable in
their ways" They not the beauty of Gods
sunshine. They hear not his voice speaking in the
roll of the ocean, the whisper of the leaf. They
are deaf to the voice of God speaking through His
works of nature. They deaf also to His voice
speaking through patriarch and prophet, apostle
and confessor. Down the road of Samaria Christ
walks today real as loving and as merciful as
in that other day, when Peter followed and the
epers cried for pity. In their caves reside the
moral lepers and their conscience whispers, "Jesus
is passing; cry out and He will heal you" In
their caves reside the moral lepers and Christs
living Church thunders forth in a voice stronger
and more pathetic than that of Isaias and Jere
MAS, Jesus is passing; cry out and He will heal
you Now is the acceptable time. Now is the day
of salvation"
The voice of conscience stirs not; the voice of
Christs living Church wakes not; the moral lepers
lick their sores and corrupt unto everlasting death
Jesus is passing down the road of Samaria, and
the moral lepers are corrupting in their caves.
Will none of them out to the light of Gods
sunshine, to the glory of His everlasting day! Yes
many come; the whisper of conscience stirs them
the voice of Gods Church wakes them They come
out from their caves of sin, and cry out, Jesus
Master, have mercy US" and Jesus says to
them in a voice of unutterabe love, "Go show
yourselves to the priests" and they are made
clean But, like the lepers of old, the moral lepers
of this day do not back to the Master
to render their gratitude and their thanks. True
out of every ten one comes back after being made
clean; one comes back from the world of push
and rush, pleasure and sin and, falling down at
the feet of Christ, cries out in voice of humility
and JOY, Lord, [ am thankful for thy healing;
keep me with Thee for time and eternity" The
other nine who were healed not back to the
Master. The world and It's ways have too much of
hold upon them In moment they cry out
Jesus, have mercy" and they are made clean In
the next moment they go back to the cave of their
leprosy and mingle again with the lepers who in
feet them unto everlasting DEATH
Jesus is infinite mercy and love. Come to me-
all you that burdened and heavily laden, and
| will relieve you, is His cry. Come to me with
with your weakness and your moral sores, and I
will relieve and cleanse you and give you eternal
life, but that you may be made whole you must not
after the cleansing go back to the world the cave