The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-19
The Moral Leper



Second Book Of Kings and . clause
from the first verse: "B1t he was q
leper."
have sometimes tried DO imagine
myself In Damascus ON review day,
and have seen . man riding. some
what apart from his troops, upon a
pings OF oliver and gold. and he him
self clothed in garments Of the finest
texture and yet with fAce 90 sad
and melancholy as to be repulsive,
and win your sympathy and cause
the beholder to turn and look . second
time. And Il snan unAccuatomod to
ouch scenos and events might have
been heard. a. he stood On the curb
stone. to have made remark similar
to this:
"How uneQuaIly God seems 10 d.
vide his favors! There b a man that
rides and the others walk: he L.
friend OF the kings and the others
are forgotten: he N clothed In the
finest garments and they are almost
naked and despised."
|, II We Knew Lives. Of People.
Oh. II we only knew the secrets
In the hearts and lives Of q great
pity them from tho depths OF our
souls
Years ago I was being driven
through a beautiful suburb OF Chi
cago by q man who wanted to sell
mo = lot and who was pointing out,
hero and there, how highly could
consider myself complimented II
felt myself able to purchase = home
and live In that neighborhood or this
| one- Finally We went past . beau
ifui homo, q palafial home. and he
said to me:
That belongs to Mr.. and MIRA So
| and So.~ and named them. and he
said to mo: They have been known
to live for months IN that home and
never speak to one another. Each
have their retinue Of servants. each
their own equipage."
| My thoughts hurried back TO The
| little fiat we called our home. and
where we'd lived for twenty years
| and I'd paid rent enough to have
bought the whole thing, There wasn't
, very much In It could have loaded
| Nil the furniture IN two furniture
| We'll. Lord, II had to give 4
little fat with the peace and hap
piness and love that goes with II and
have the palatial homo and troubled
insomnia and tear-stalned cheeks
and the worry, why. I wouldn't do
it." and from that day to this have
had a new vision Of things and have
been moro conteuted and satisfied
than ever.
But He Was Ieper.
~But he was = leper." That Dr.
ease, peculiar to the Orient, Il ak
ceedingy loathsome. and as I study
its pathology / am not surprised that
God used It az a type of sin- A man
accustomed to understand the begin
ming Of the ravaees Of that disease,
! might havs said to enc thus aniacted:
do yon go that spot7 You'd bet.
ter 30 show yourself to the priest
| for the cleansing. according to thu
Mosaic ceremonial law"
"Oh," says the man thus addressed.
| you arc unduly excited and alarmed
and agttated for my welfare. That's
nothing bat . water blister; nothing
but q pimple. tester NO larger than
the head Of . pin." and at nrst the
sores were few. then they were many.
and then tho body Ia covered and It
lays hold with it, Shiny coils upon
every nerve and vein and Joint and
| marrow and cuticle and - the days
| 60 by the scunas are large and then
the sores, until the entire body be-
comes a mass Of utrefactton and cor
ruption.
Sin and Lcproay Alrka.
| So It Ia with sin: and am not
surprised that God used It az q type
! Of sin In its development and growth.
/ 80 I say to the boy. be carefult Don't
/ you go with that gang that aneers and
mocks at the Lord and fakes COM
ments upon everybody that passes
them on the street and condemns
virtue. Why. heard You swear just
now. and take the name Of God In
| votv 4 email HnesNp m vyNs,r
breath. you are going down the line
that will end in ruin. Why, you
| laughed at smutty story. that some
body told, AZ though that was witty.
instead OF being devilish. He said:
IT never expect to 60 down any
| further than that"
/ said to that girl. be careful my
girl! Don't you 90 with that crowd
choose those young mon for. your
companions. Don't you 90 down there
/ to that ballroom. Three-fourths OF
all tAe girls In this country that have
been ruined by the excitement OF
! their passions down on the ballroom
! floor. am interested In your well
fare and to be interested In your well
! fare I've got to assault some popular
| Institutions and / don't care three
whoops this Mde of perdition what
may be said about mo TOR doing Il.
| arm trying to protsct You against
/ the enemy Of your soul.
/. Young Gtrls Warned.
| I ray. don't you allow those li0er-
| tines to do II Don't you laugh ~
that story with Z double meaning
| when the boys told Il, - simply ma
out II they could get IN sntree Into
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