The Washington herald., 1918-01-14
Ten Times Worse Than Pyca Nature Takes Sinners Toll

ward, lest the. breezes would bear
he contamination OF their bodies. and
IN addition they had to wear over
their faces a black cloth with holes
cut through, There is where thieves
and thugs got their diea of doing II.
That was the first place 1t was ever
lone.
The first one who ever gilded the
roof was Solomon when he built the
temple of Solomon. He was the first
fellow who ever did It. So we've been
doing it and patterning after Solo
mon ever since. So the thieves put
those cloths over their heads to dis
guise themselves. The lepers had to
do that as they went down the street.
turn to the leewafd, then they had to
cry out to warn the people and one
went ahead crying: Room for the
lepers"
They Lived out in an Isolated part Of
the city, waiting until their teeth
dropped out, waiting until their I'm
gers began to separate at the joints.
and then when compelled by the law,
to go out in the tombs, and there to
dwell until dying among the dead
they at last should be gathered to the
rotting remains OF their fathers. Such
was the law governing the lepers, and
friend of mine, DR.. Talmadge, told
me that in going through the leper
hospital in Calcutta, India, he saw
little boy leaning up against the wall
sucking his thumb. like you did when
you were a boy or a girl.
He was the son of an English army
officer and he said: Little fellow,
what are you doing in here?'' .-
And the little boy looked up and
said: i've got the disease"
He was a fiaxen haired cherub and
the tears trickled down my friends
cheeks and the little fellow lifted his
little foot and there he saw the tell
tale marks. The child was doomed,
for he was a leper.
And as he went down the street. one
had to go in front of him, like band
playing before a procession, and cry
out: Room for the leper!" and as
he came, the cry passed on Room for
the lepeF" And he went forth alone.
Not one of all the many whom he
loved, nor she whose name was woven
into the fibers of his heart came TO
speak peace and comfort unto him.
Yes, he went forth as with a sick
heart and alone, to die, for God had
cursed him-a leper.
Leprosy is an infectious disease
like scarlet fever, or like diphtheria
and it spreads through a community,
those affected with it. coming in con-
tact with other people that are not
and thus they spread 1t all over.
Your Sin Damns Others.
So 1t is with sin. The sin that is in
you will be the sin that will damn
somebody else You can't have a
disease to yourself. you will give it to
others That's the reason we have
got laws that cause them to stay in
their homes, that's the reason we
quarantine smallpox and diphtheria,
and these contagious diseases. We
don't want other people. my friends.
to be afflicted by them. So why not
sin?
Why do you allow an old reprobate
to walk the streets and damn other
people? Why do you allow them to
scatter the germs of their iniquity and
disease and to damn the community
In which they live? Society takes no
notice of sin. Society waits until sin
has become vice, then they become
Mortified over it. Society takes no
note of the girl flirting with Tom,
Dick and Harry, wearing clothes that
makes a man have anything but pure
thoughts when he looks at her. Skat-
ing on thin ice. Society waits until
the mute evidence of Illicit affection
can be no longer hidden and she is
on the way to become the mother of
an illegitimate child. Then they os-
tracize and stigmatize.
God takes note in the beginning
God knows where that Thing will end
THAT'S the reason God cries out mis-
warnings against society. Society takes
no note of the young fellow that comes
TO your house to a banquet, and you
served liquor at the table, and he,
there, takes a drink of whisky and
in that drink he discovers the law of
heredIty whereby desires have been
transmitted from his father unto him
and they are lying dormant in him,
like a serpent in the cold waiting for
the warm sun, to wriggle out and in
Ject his venom. Society waits until he
becomes blear-eyed. staggering, YER
min-covered drunkard, then it kicks
him out and ostracizes him.
Society takes no note of the young
fellow that will sit and play cards
in your home for some prize you Of
fer. Society waits until he becomes
inocculated with that virus, then he
becomes -black-legged gambler and
they kick him out, after they've got
him started on the career where he
is. God warns the beginning of those
things, that's why / preach about it.
/ want you to get my viewpoint on
the matter. It's because that Is the
only way you seemingly can stop peo-
pie, to make them realize what sin
will do when it has been wrought.
Moral LeprOsy's Hell. ..
physical leprosy, moral leprosy is ten
times worse. 1 care nothing about
your political drag, your money. /
don't give a whoop, If you walk UP
to Democratic or Republican con-
vention and lay down on the desk
the vote of a whole State, it makes
no difference If after you've run
your career. if after you've finished
your earthly life, my text would be
a fitting epitaph for your tombstone
and contain the eptiome of your life
Don't come and talk to me about
how much money he had or what his
political drag was, If I've got to write
after his name, But he was a leper."
What difference will it make what
position you occupy or where you
were in this old world?
never was more interested in my
life than I was at hearing the story
or Confederate colonel. He was a
stickler for military discipline. One
day he had a trifling case of insubor-
dination in his ranks and he ordered
them TO halt. He had a drumheau
court-martial and the offender was
convicted and he ordered him shot
and buried, and gave the command to
march. They'd stopped just three
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