Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-12
Says that Moral Sin is Just the
Same as a Man Who is Stricken
with Leprosy.
GIVES WARNING TO THE YOUNG


billy Sunday preached last night on
''The Moral Leper." taking ss his text.
"But the Man Was Leper." The evan
Eelist said:
have sometimes tried 20 imagine my
self in Damascus on review day. and
have seen man riding on a horse richly
oaparisoned with trappings of gold and
silver. and he himself clothed in gar
nsents OF the finest fabrics and the most
costly, but with a face go sad and mel
ancnoly that II would cause the beholder
20 turn and hook second and third time.
And a man unaccustomed to such scenes
might have been heard 20 make a re-
mark like this: How uneaually God
seems to divide his favorsi There Is a
man who rides and others walk; he Is
clothed In costly garments; they are al
most naked while he il we'll fed" and
they contrast the differences between the
man on the horse and the others. II we
only knew the breaking hearts OF the
people we envy we would pity them from
the bottom OF our souls.
was being driven through n suburb
of Chicago by a real estate man who
wanted to sell me a lot, lie was telling
me who lived here and who lived there.
ana my children 70 possess a home there.
We were driving past a home that must
have cost $4,000 and he said: That
house is owned by Mr. So-and-so He is
one of our muiti-mllionaires and he and
his wife have been known 70 live in that
house for months and never speak 20
each other They each have separate
apartments. each has ssparate retinve
Of servants, each dining room and
sleeping apartments. and months come
and 80 by and they never speak TO one
another" My thoughts hurried back TO
the little flat in Chicago that We called
our homo and where we have lived for
seventeen years ! had pair rent enough
20 pay for II. There wasn't much in Il.
could load II In two furniture vans.
maybe three, counting the piano. but I
would not trade tho happiness and the
Joy and the love OF that little fiat for
that palatiai home and the sorrow and
the things that went with II.
As you are driving along the street
and a man who was intimately acquainted
with the skeletons that are in every fam
lily should tell you the secrets OF them
all. OF that boy who has broken his
fathers heart by being a drunkard, n
pog-leg gambler. and that giri who has
gone astray. and that wife who Ia a COM
mon drunkard. made so by society. and
the father himself. who was also sinner.
Leprosy aud sin.
>''But he was leper." That disease.
peculiar to the orient. ls exceedingly
loafhsome and as ! study it's pathology
] arm not surprised that God used il as
type Of sin. A man who Is able to
understand this disease. It's beginning and
iss progress. might be approached by a
mar who was thus afflicted and might
say to him, Hurry! Hurry show your
self to the priest for the cleansing by
the Mosaic law" "why?" says the man
thus addressed. what is the trouble7'
Tho other man would say. do you see
the spot on our hand7 Hurry and show
yourself 10 the priest" But the man
says. THAT Is only a tester. only water
blister; only plmple. nothing more.
There Ia no occasion TO be alarmed. You
are unduly agitated and excited for my
welfare" Those sores are only few now,
but IL spreads and II Is first upon the
hand. then upon the arm. and from the
arm II goes on until Il lays hold of every
nerve. artery. vein, with It's slimy coil,
and continues until the rotten dlsintegra-
tlon OF the parts takes place and they
drop off. and then It Is too late. But
the man who was concerned saw the be-
ginning OF that. not only the end. but
the beginning. He looked yonder and
saw the end. too.
That is the reason why you hurry when
you get evidence OF the disease SO /
say 20 you. young man. don't you 20
with that Goddess. good-for-nothing gang.
that blaspheme and sneer at religion. that
bunch OF character assassins; they will
make OF your body a door mat to wipe
their feet upon. Don't go with that
bunch; heard you swear. / heard you
sneer at religion: stop. or you will be-
come a staggering. muttering. bleary-
eyed. foui-nouthed. down and outer. on
your way TO hell say TO you. stopi
breaking your wife's heart and wreck
ing your children's lives. And what
have you got 70 show for itf What have
you got 20 show for II?
A warning 20 the Young.
Don't you 20. my boy; don't you laugh
at that smutty story with a double mean
ing. Don't go with that gang. But you
say TO me. Mr. sunday. you are unduly
excited for my welfare know you
smell liquor on my breath but never
expect to become a drunkard. l never
expect TO become an outcast" Well. you
are fool You are a fool. No man
ever intended 70 become a drunkard.
Every drunkard started out TO be simply
moderate drinker. The fellow that
tells me that he can leave Il alone when
ne wants TO lies. Il Is Iie II you can,
why don't you leave It alone2 You will
never let Il alone. II you could. you
would. Ny boy. hear mo, 1 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
iush ana passion. and are ne only for
danger signals 10 warn the coming race.
You cant leave II alone. or II you can.
the time viii come when II win get you.
Take Il from me
Don't 90 10 that dance. Don't you
know that II Is the most damnahle. low
down institution on the face OF Gods
earth. that Il causes more ruin than
anything this side Of hell. Don't you go
with that young man. don't you so 10
that dance.