The Glenwood post., 1912-06-15
A. j. DICKSON, Editor and Proprietor
Saturday, June Is, 1912.
LET US ALONE

NllNu WIN l'u'i N'iN', ~ ~ -
alone.-Mark l. 1928.
The Rev. Mr. Klein said in part:
We have before us remarkable
scene, surprisingly remarkable in that
man objects to being made the recp-
lent of favor. 1t is customary for
people to welcome and even to ask for
man who is the subject of our text
when about to be made the object OF
divine clemency cries let us alone. He
was the victim of an unclean spirit.
He was in the clutch of Satan He was
in dire extremity and yet he was salts
fed. He rather enjoyed being the
my. Satan was leading him "A willing
victim, down, down into a deeper deg
graduation into a deeper hell. And
when he saw the Master he grew un-
easy. He began to tremble. a great
opportunity was presenting itself. He
began to protest, Let us alone; what
of Nazareth?' is his cry
And so we find the human family
subject to many unsolvable PECULIAR
ties. Misery is as rule self-intiictei
In the final analysis the Affections of
the race are due to the perversions of
the race. People sometimes speak Of
t, 'Tha
theory is wrong. God does not send,
he only permits the self-intlicted suf
fering. The man who soaks his body
with alcohol suffers. ''In the end 1:
biteth like a serpent and stingeth like
an adder But don t let us accuse
God of throwing that man into deliri-
about him are of his own production.
And the remarkable feature of that
mans life is that he cings to the very
thing that damns him. The liquor
traffic is today pampered and dandied
by its own victims. The people who
are free from its hold, unless they are
as rule would destroy it. But that
great army of men who by virtue of
its deep damnation are on the down
ward road are almost without exception
its most radical supporters. If yod
have ever had any experience in the
work of temperance reform you have
discovered that the very men who
above all need to be freed from the
rum demon, invariably rush to its res
enc its most blatant defenders. Even
though liquor legrades, demoralizes,
beastiaizes and impoverishes, they will
cry ''let us alone 1t is another case
of the man with the unclean spirit
refusing the favor of being liberated
from the demon hold.
And so people actually enter into Il
protest against privilege. Opportunity
comes, but they refuse it admission.
We feel satisfied. We are quite con
tented with our present state, "Let
alone. - 1t is the old story over again,
"the man with the unclean spirit.
Jesus came his way And he knew
something of the Master. He knew
of His power. He knew that the
Master could snap the fetters that
1eHnd him to the demon, but he love"
the demon. He loved the associations
of evil. And do you ask why? Yes.
Why do people cling to sin? Is ii
because sin is beautiful? Seemingly
it is. The forbidden fruit seemed
beautiful to Mother Eve. The wine is
red in the cup. 1t moves itself Alright
about all sin and that sparkle entices
many a soul into the very jaws OF
death. And sin has a sweet taste, bu'
at last it biteth and stingeth with th5
venom of the adder and serpent. II
is like the deadly drug that soothes
but to lull. The cocaine fend Graves
affords. There is death in that drug
but its hold on its victim is such thai
he must have it. And so he walks int,
death s embrace, and steps into his owl
grave and protests against the priv:
lege of breaking away from the enem,
that is slowly extinguishing the ligh
of life. Do people covet death? No
they covet sin. The contemplation o
death may fill the soul of the cocain
fend with unspeakable terror, but hi
love for the drug overcomes his fea
of death. 1t is said of Cleopatra o
Egypt that she deliberately put an as
on her bare arm, the bite of which J
so poisonous as to be fatal. Cleopatr
was tired of life. Antony, her lover
had come to sad and ignominous end
She herself was about to be carried t
Rome in chains, and so she deliberatel