Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-12
The Moral Leper is GriLled BY Sunday
at the Big Tabernacle Saturday EUening

/ from virtue. away from morality. his
name synonymous with all that II vile.
| What difference did IL make that he had
power over men when you might sum
/ up his life In my text. but he was a
/ leper." What difference did It make?
! | pity that boy or girl from the depth
] OF my soul, who. N you usS. are you
willing 10 be "A Christian. viii answer:
''Alr. Sunday. l would like TO be. but II
! tell that at home my father will abuse
ne. my mother will sneer at me. IL /
were / would have no announcement to
stand and fight the battle" / pity from
the depths OF my soul that boy or that
girl that has n mother like that With
"a woman like that In a home a step
mother would be "a God-send II she had
religion.
The UncIeRn Life.
/ Unclean! suppose every young man
I'm Omaha who IL a moral leper was inn
PEELED and compelled by some uncon-
trollable impulse over which he had no
power 20 make public revelations OF his
sin! Down the street he comes in his
auto and you speak to him from the
curbstono and he viii say: "Uncleanl
Unclean" Wonder he comes walking
down the street Suppose that TO every
man and woman he meets he Is impelled
and compelled 60 mako public revela-
1 tions OF the fact that he a. leper.
Suppose every young woman is impeled
and compelled TO make public revelations
] OF the fact that she r. living a life OF
sin Somebody else pays for her clothes
Z and her board.
Suppose that some young man who
lives a good life calls upon her and rings
/ the doorbel and she comes down and
says ''Uncleanl Uncleani Keep away
do not come near lest you be con-
taminated." There are lots Of moral
iepers that are apparently clean. Oh.
yesl They live in the best homes and
lots OF so-called best girls receive them
and keep company with them. They open
the door to the moral leper and he comes
and sits with your daughter. and many
OF you know that they are moral lepers.
And many a fool girl will marry q biped
li!se that.
These are the things we are up against
nowadays--that so-oalled "Modesty."
Leprosy In an infectious disease; IL is
the germ OF sin. II there Ia evil in you
the evil will dwell I'm others. When we
do wrong we inspire others-and your
lives scatter disease when you come In
contact with others. II there IL sin in
the father. there win he sin In the boy;
II there Is sin In the mother. there will
be sin In the daughter; II there IL Elm I'm
the sister, there will be sin In the sis
ter; by your influence you will spread II.
IL you live the wrong way you will
drag somebody else to perditlon with
you M YOU go, and kindred ties viii ia
eilitate IL.
street FIirtations.
supposing all your hearts were open.
Surprising we had glass doors TO our
hearts. and we could walk down the
street and look In and see where you
have been. and with whom you have
been and what you have been doing. A
great many Of you would want stained
glass and heavy tapestry TO cover them
, Suppose could put screen behind
me, pull string or push 4 button and
! produce on that screen a view of the
hearts of the people. ] would say, Here
Is Mr.. and Mira. AS life as II Is and here
as the people think II Is. Here IL what
he really Is. Here IL where he has been.
Here Is how much booze he drinks. Here
is how much he lost last year at horse
races" But these are the things that
society does not take note Of. Society
takes no note OF filtration on the street
IL waits until the girl has lost her vir-
tue and then slams the door In her face
II takes no note of that young man
drinking at a banquet table; II waits
until he becomes a bleary-eyed drunk
kard and then Il will slam the door in
his face. II takes no note OF card-play-
ing for some dinky little cream pitcher.
or n pair OF silk hose; II waits until
YOU become a gambler and then 1t slams
The door in your face. God says. Look
ont In the beginning for that thing.
society takes no note OF the beginning
II waits until Il becomes vice, and then
A. organizes civic Righteousness clubs
Get back TO the beginning and 90 your
work there.
Nnamau aud the Prophet.
The servant OF Naaman entered the
hut OF the prophet Elisha and found him
sitting on high stool writing with a
quill on papyrus. The servant bowed low
and said. '''The great and mighty MAJ
man. captain OF the hosts OF the king OF
syria. awaits thee. Unfortunately he Is
A leper and cannot enter your august
presence. He has heard of the miracu-
lous cures that you have wrought and he
hopes 20 become the recipient OF your
power" The old prophet Of God tells
/ him!
Tell him to dip seven times In the
/ Jordan-beat It. beat it." The servant
I came out to Naaman, who was sitting
! on his horse.
well is he at homer
Hes at home. but he's a queer duck"
| Naaman thought that Elisha would
come out and pat the sores and say In
/ carnations. like an Indian medicine man.
and say Matter is nonexistenti Is
an illusion OF your mind. my dear fellow.
Why didn't you phone me from Dsmas-
Gus and l would have given you absent
treatment" Poor old euss sitting away
matter nonexistent-you just imagine
you have leprosy."
/ Naaman was wroth, like many fellow
today. God reveals 10 the sinner the
plan Of salvation and instead Of thank
ing God for salvation and doing what
f, God wants them 10 do. they damn God
and everybody else for bothering them
The sins of society.
some men ought to be hurled out OF
society; they ought TO he kicked out OF
churches. and out OF politics, and every