The Washington herald., 1918-01-14
Ballroom Proves Source
Of Sin Drags Young Girls
! To Life Of Constant Sin
EVENING SERMON
The Moral Leper

z from the nrst verse; DuS ne was
Tsper."
1 have sometimes tried to imagine
Z 1Tlyself in Damascus on review uay'
and have seen a man riding some
{fhat apart from his troops, upon a
horse richly caparisoned with trap
pings Of silver and gold, and he him
seff clothed in garments oil the hness
4txturs and vet, with a face so SAD
arld melancholy as to be repulsive
aud win your sympathy and cause
the beholder to turn and look a sec
mi time. And a man unaccustomed
Il, such scenes and events might have
5SsaD heard. as he stood on the curo-
. Zone to have made remark similar
: t9 this:
--.ss4ovv ancguaIly God seems to di-
vide his f4vors! There is a man that
tiftes and the others walk; he Is a
friend OF the kings and the others
are forgotten; he is clothed IN tne
Anest garments and they are almost
naked ana despised."
oh, if We only knew the secrets
in the hearts and lives OF great
,.ranv people we envy today, we'd pity
taern from the depths of our Souls
YC1rs ago I was being driven
through a beautiful suburb or Chi-
tc1lro, by a man who wanted TO sell
ple a lot and who was pointing out.
here and there, how highly 1 couid
consider myself complimented II
ftIt myself able to purchase a nome
and Tv, in that neighbOrhOOd or this
4re Finally, We went past a beau
ugul home. a palatial home anu ne
said to me:
.lTha- belongs to Mr., and Mrs. So
t-y4-g-r, D.. nd ,-qr17ed them, and he said
- me They have been known to 1--we
-, rnor-ls in that home and never
-sge1k to one another. Each nave
,beir re.inue Of servants, each nave
1-eir separate apartments, each thelr
own eIUiDase."
Nv thoughts hurried BACK TO the
l=.-Is nat We called our home, ana
,.nsre we'd lived for twenty years ana
"a paid rent enough to have bought
r5e whole thing. There wasn't very
.rr1ch in it. I could have loaded all
the furniture in two furniture vans
and / said: ,..,.
Wei. Lord. II had to give httle
fpt with the peace and happiness ana
1ova shat goes with it and have the
raIasfal home and troubled insomnia
and Eear-stained cheeks and the worry
Ngg,- l wouldn't do it," and from that
Fay 10 this I have had a new vision
81 thfrrs cnd have been more con-
tented and satisfied than ever.
LerroSy TypIfes Sin.
But Ie was a Ieper." That disease
r-acl7If7r 20 Iue Orient, is exceedingly
= ga.ltE soE.e. ~rd as study its PathoI-
ocv I. am not surprised that God used
.ras type OF sin A man accustomed
10 understand the beginning OF the
Il mix
said 10 one thus afflicted:
..Do Won see that spot? You'd
bs+ra- 20 show yourself to the priest
for the cleansing, according 10 the
Aroslac ceremonial law
oh says the man thus addressed,
sro4 are unduly excited and and
Alarmed AMI agitated for my well
fsre. That's nothing but a water
blister -.C.a-lZ but a pimple, les
fer no larger than the head or
pi7." a-1 AZ first the sores were rev.
then they were many.
AT FIRST the hand and then the arm
and then the body is covered and
i lays hold with its Shiny coils upon
evsry nerve and vein and joint and
marrow and cuticle, and as the days
20 by the scums are large and then
TIE sores, until the entire body be
cones q mass of putrefaction and
corruption
So it : with sin. and l am not
surprised that Cod used it as a type
OF sin in its development and growth.
So say TO the boy, be careful! Don't
YOU 90 with that gang that sneers
and nocks at the Lord and makes
comments upon everybody that passes
them on the street and condemns
virtue. Why. I heard you swear just
nov. and take the name Of God in
vain. Why, L smeiled liquor on your
breath: you are going down the line
that Will end in ruin. Why, you
laughed at a smutty story. that some
boty told, as though that was witty,
instead OF being devilish- He said:
Y never expect to go down any fur
ther than that
said 20 that girl. be careful. my
girlI Don't you go with that crowd
Of Goddess young men. Don't you
cha0sc those young men for your
cr-lpan.0us. Don't you go down there
to that ballroom. Three-fOurths OF
aH-the girls in this country that have
been ruined we're by the excitement of
.tEesr passions down on the ballroom
? fOor. 1 am interested in your well
fare, and 10 he interested in your
welfare. I've got to assault some pop
MAR institutions and 1 don't care
three whoops this side of perdition
Ns-irlt may he said about me for doing
it, I an trying to protect you against
the enemy Of your soul
That DOubIe-meanInG Story.
say. don't you allow those Hber-
tines TO do il. Don't YOU laugh at
that story with a double meaning
when the boys told it, to simply fnd
clstJ Il they could get an entree into
your mind and see II they could dis
arm your prejudice.
Years ago. Henry Clay was pub
Jisber. ard 7 don't know of any bet.
ter periodical publisher. He told that
years ago, when he was in London,
he went to 4 theater to see an exhibi-
ton of animals and everybody was
astounded by the marvellous power
that the man had over them. They
vert thPough their various perform
ances and there was one animal in
the crowd thct he never took his eyes
froln and it is one species of animal
that has never been known to submit
10 nan. either through brutality or
{ kiadnass-that is the black panther.
- And the most difficult horse on
earth TO tame is the black stallion.
anS the one snake that has never
been tanned is the black cobra The
black mouse has never submitted to
the authority Of a human being.
white mice are trained, white mice
viii do wonderful performances. The
black panther has never been tanned
BY man, although 1t win go through
performances. The trainer will never
take his eye on the panther. He