Omaha daily bee., 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 IL 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 n
leper." What difference did II make?
| pity that boy or girl from the depth
! OF my soul, who, N you ask, arc you
willing to be "A Christian. viii answer.
! MIR. Sunday, l would like to be. but II
! tell that at home my father viii abuse
ne. my mother will sneer at me. If /
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 mother like that. with
"A woman like that In home step
mother would be a God-send IL she had
religion.
The UncIean Life.
! Unclean! suppose every young man
In Omaha who is a moral leper was inn
PEELED and compelled BY some uncon-
trollable impulse over which he had no
I power TO make public revelations OF his
sim Down the street he comes In his
auto and you speak to him from the
curbstono and he will say: "Uncleanl
Unclsan" Yonder he comes walking
down the street. Suppose that to every
man and woman he meets he is impelled
and compelled TO mako public revela-
tions OF the fact that he Is a leper.
Suppose every young woman is impelled
and compelled TO make public revelations
] Of the fact that she Is living a life of
sin. Somebody else pays for her clothes
and her board.
| Suppose that some young man who
lives n good life calls upon her and rings
1 the doorbel and she comes down and
says: "Uncleanl Uncleanl Keep away:
do not come near lest you be con-
taminated." There are lots of moral
lepers that are apparently clean. Oh.
yes! 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 iepers.
And many a fool girl will marry q biped
lite that
These are tho things we are up against
nowadays-that so-called "Modesty."
Leprosy is an infectious disease; II is
the germ OF sin II there is evil in you
the evil will dwell in others. When we
do wrong we inspire others--and your
lives scatter disease when you come in
contact with others. II there is sin in
the father. there will be sin in the boy;
II there Is sin In the mother, there will
be sin in the daughter; II there is Sin in
the sister, there will be sin In the sis
ter; by your influence you will spread It,
II you live the wrong way you will
drag somebody else to perdition with
you ns YOU 10, and kindred ties Will fa-
eiiitate IT,
street Vibrations.
supposing all your hearts we're open.
Supposing we had glass doors TO our
hearts. and we could walk down the
street and look In and see whore 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 70 cover them
, Suppose / could put screen behind
me, pull string or push button and
produce on that screen view OF the
hearts of the paople. would say, Here
rs Mr.. and Mrs. AS life as II Is and here
as the people think II Is. Here Is what
he really Is. Here is 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
II waits until the girl has lost her vir-
tue and then slams the door In hsr face.
IL takes no note OF that young man
drinking at a banquet table; It waits
,,ntu he becomes a bleary-eyed drunk
kard and then II viii slam the door In
his face. II takes no note OF card-play-
,na for some dinky little cream pitcher
or pair of silk hose; Il waits until
Won become a gambler and then It slams
tshe door In your face God says, LOOK
out In the beginning for that thing
society takes no note OF the beginning
Il waits until 1t becomes vice. and then
n organizes civic Righteousness CLUBS
Get back to the beginning and DO your
work there.
Naaman and the Prophet.
The servant of Naaman entered the
hut of the prophet Elisha and found MIN
sitting on high stool writing with
/ quill on papyrus. The servant bowed low
and said. "The great and mighty Naa-
( man. captain OF the hosts of the king OF
Syria. awaits thee. Unfortunately ne IL
a leper and cannot enter your august
presence. He has heard OF the miraeu-
lous cures that you have wrought ana ne
hopes TO become the recipient OF your
, power. Ine olu pTopnSt VI NNN WIS
1 himl
"rell him to dip seven times I'm the
/ Jordan-beat Il. beat IL The servant
came out 20 Naaman, who was sitting
on his horse.
"Wei, Is he at homer
Hes at home, but he's queer duck,
Naaman thought that Elisha would
come out and pat the sores and say In
I carnations. like an Indian medicine man.
and say, Matter is nonexistent; II Is
an illusion OF your mind, my dear fellow
Why didn't you phone me from pamas-
Gus and l would have given you absent
treatment" Poor old cuss sitting away
matter nonexistent-you just imagine
you have leprosy."
NaAman was wroth. like many fellow
today. God reveals TO the sinner the
plan OF salvation and instead OF thank
ing God for salvation and doing what
God wants them to 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
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