The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-17
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most costly, they are nearly naked"
If we only knew the secrets of the
hearts and lives of a great many peo4
pie WI envy. we would pity them from
the depths of our souls.
But he was a leper.' That disease
is peculiar to the orient, and always
exceedingly loathsome, and as 1 study
its pathology, / am not surprised that
God used it as a type Of sin. With
a beginning so small as to escape de-
lection, the afflicted one is approached
by a man who is accustomed to note
the beginning and ravages of the dis
ease, and the minute that man lays
eyes upon the sore he says: Hurry:
Show yourself to the priest for the
cleansing, according to the Mosaic
law why, (if he were like some
people in our days, he would say,
matter is non-existent, simply ar il
fusion Of the mortal mind" A man,
l say, accustomed to note the ravages
of the disease, might have been heard
to say: Hurry to the priest and show
yourself for cleansing as YOU are COM
manded in the Law of Moses" But"
says the afflicted one. Il see no
occasion for your alarm. You are UNI
duly excited and agitated for my wei
fare. That which you think is lep-
rosy is only a tester, only a pimple,
only a water blister. no larger than
the point or the head of a pin. / see
no occasion for alarm" oh. no but it
spreads and spreads until first the
hand is covered, then the arm, then
the body, and it lays hold with it's
Shiny coil upon nerve, and vein, and
artery, and tissue, until the rottening
members begin to slough and the flesh
drops off, then he will possibly heed,
but it will be too late. l can see it,
as the days come and go. At first
the scales were few, but now they are
many. At first the sores were few
and small. but now they are many and
large, until the entire surface Of the
body is covered, and when it is too
late he awakens in terror to his peril.
1 see a lot of young bucks, with
their hats on one side of their head,
going into booze joints. and In a few
years they will be staggering, NUT
tering, bleary-eyed, foul-mouthed, YER
~min-covered, down-and-outers ready
to take the count and plunge into hell.
/ see many a young girl walking
the streets, flirting with Tom ick-and
Harry, and it will be but a few years
until she is in some red-light district,
merchandising her Womanhood for
gain, because she insisted on going
with those Goddess, sneering little de-
generate buck-warts, who mock at re-
ligion and sneer at Cod
l walk, UP to a young man ana !
say: BE careful, my boy, don't keep
company with that Goddess, sneering,
beer-drinking gang; don't listen to the
vile, lewd stories they pour into your
ears, those fellows who demonitize vir-
tue, place a premium on vice and APP
plaud every ma that can rob some
girl of her honor. Don't go with them.
Don't hang those Iewd pictures on the
walls of your memory. Don't corn-
ment on the symmetry Of some girls
form. 7 smell liquor IN your breath.
+ heard you laugh at a story that
would have made your mother blush.
Don't go with that gang He says:
tsMr. Sunday. you are unduly excited
for my welfare. / know you smell
| liquor on my breath, but ! never ex-
pect to become a drunkard. ! never
| expect to become an outcast. ] say:
| my boy. hear mel ! have walked
along the shores of time and have seen
them strewn with the wrecks Of those
who have drifted in from the seas Of
lust and passion, and r AT only for
danger signals to warn the coming
race
"DamnabIe, HelIish Danes
And that girl comes to me n /
say: Don't keep company with that