Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 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
gelist 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
naents Of the finest fabrics and the most
costly. but with a face 90 sad and mel
ancnoly that II would cause the beholder
20 turn and hook a second and third time.
And a man unaccustomed TO such scenes
might have been heard 20 make a re-
marx like this: How unequally God
seems to divide his favorsi There is n
man who rides and others walk; ne Is
clothed In costly garments; they are al
most naked while he Is we'll fed" and
they contrast the difference 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 suburb
OF Chicago by real estate man who
wanted to sell me lot, lie was telling
me who lived here and who lived there.
and my children to 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. Ho IL
one OF our multi-mirionaires and he and
his wife have been known TO live in that
house for months and never speak 20
each other. They each have separate
apartments. each has a separate retinVe
OF servants, each dining room and
sleeping apartments. and months come
and go by and they never speak 20 one
another" My thoughts hurried back to
the little flat In Chicago that we called
our home and where we have lived for
seventeen years. had pair rent enough
70 pay for H. There wasn't much in q;
could load Il 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 flat for
that palatial home and the sorrow and
the things that went with H.
As you are driving along the street
and a man who was intimately acquainted
with the skeletons that are In every fam
ily should tell you the secrets OF them
ALL OF that boy who has broken his
fathers heart by being n drunkard. a
peg-ieg gambler and that girl who has
gone astray. and that wife who is com
mon drunkard. made so by society. and
tho father himself. who was also a sinner.
LeprOsy and sin.
e''But he was leper." That disease.
peculiar 20 the orient. II exceedingly
loathsome and as l study It's pathology
I am not surprised that God used II as
type of sin. a man who IL able 10
understand this disease. It's beginning and
its progress, might be approached by a
man who was thus afflicted and might
say TO him. Hurry! Hurry Show your
self 60 the priest for tho cleansing by
the Mosaic law" 'why@' says the man
thus addressed. what Is the troubie7'
The other man would say. do you see
the spot on our hand7 Hurry and show
yourself TO the priest" But the man
says. THAT Ia only tester. only a water
blister; only a pimpie. nothing more.
There Is no occasion 20 be alarmed. You
are unduly agitated and excited for my
welfare" Those sores are only few now.
but II 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 Shiny coil.
and continues until the rotten disintegra-
ton OF the parts takes place and they
drop off. and then II In 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 TO you. young man. don't you go
with that Goddess. good.for-nothlng gang.
that blasphenle and sheer at religion. that
bunch Of character Rssassins; they will
make OF your body 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 stRggering. muttering. bieary-
eyed. foul-mouthed, down and outer, on
your way TO hell l say to you. stopl
or you win go Keeling down 10 hell.
breaking your wife's heart and wreck
ing your ehildren's lives. And what
have you got 10 show for IT. What have
you got TO show for itG
A warning 60 the Yoane.
Don't you 90. my boy: don't you laugh
at that snutty story with double mean
Ing Don't go with that gang. But you
say 10 me. Mr.. sunday. you are unduly
excited for my welfare know you
smell liquor on my breath. but never
expect 10 become a drunkarc. / never
expect 10 become an outcast" Well. you
are a fool You are a fool No man
ever intended 70 become a drunkard.
Every drunlkard started out TO be simply
a moderate drinker. The fellow that
tells me that he can leave Il alone when
he wants 20 lies. Il IL Ne. II you can.
why don't you leave Il alone? You viii
never let Il alone. II you could. you
would. Ny boy. hear me, have walked
aiong the shores Of time and have seer
them strewn with the wrecks OF those
who have drifted IN from the seas OF
lush ana passion. and are M only foI
danger signals 20 warn the coming race
You cant leave II alone. or II you can,
the time win come when IL viii get you
Take Il from me.
Don't 80 TO that dance. Don't you
know that Il Is the most damnAble. low
down institution on the face OF Gods
earth. that Il causes more ruin than
anythins this side Of hell. Don't you go
with that young man; don't you go 10
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