The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-10
The Man Who Fell Among the
Thieves.

We clip the following from the Pittsburg
Gazette;
All the world, Christian and Infdel, admire
the beautiful and instructive parable Of the
iood Samaritan Everybody who will read
TINS article knows the story, 50 we need not
reclte 1t. man was waylaid by thieves
| or robbers, was wounded, stripped and left
without ability to help himself or pursue his
journey unaided. BY and by Priest came
along. but he did nothing; then a Lee
vite, bnt be felt that he had nothing to do in
the case
Now let us stop here and consider little.
This incident, as the parable tell us, hap.
|pened on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho.
But have we not all witnessed something very
much like this IN our own country? Have we
not seen certain man as we ourneyed
through lifer fall among there's? And have
we not seen priests gazing at him and shaking
their heads and looking little trobled about
the poor man. but passing on exclaiming.
''Ah, it would not be at all expedient to in
terfere IN this case. This is no concern of
ours. The men who did this thing are very
powerful in this their own territory, and this
Is the way they make their living. We could
have no peace If we should interfere with
them. And the Levite, too, passed on. be-
cause he belonged TO another parish: and be-
cause, as he alleged, where this thing hap
pened. they hada constitutions rightto DO lust
as they did. So the poor man law groaning
in his blood for a long time
|, happened, however. In the course of hu-
man events, that other men fell among the
same thieves. while, at the same time, through
the good hand of his God upon him. the first
recovered "a little strength and was able to
journey on, although still weak. nearly blind
and reduced TO utter poverty. As we said,
other men fell into the hands of the same
thieves who wounded them. shut them mn in
dungeons, starved them, and such of them as
escaped they pursued with dogs and deadly
weapons. But now for the first time the
food Samaritan appears. And who was he
The same poor man who frs, fell among the
thieves Unlike the one in the parable he
bad no OIL or wine but be did what he could.
de gave the hungry fngitives such food and
shelter as he had. and he did il at the peril
OF his life and he guided them as FAR as Law
IN his power to places of safety. Although
himself IN the power of these robbers. he was
ever faithful to the unfortunate men. who had
fallen into their hands, and saved the lives of
many, although IN spite Of all his exertions.
stlll more perished miserably at their hands.
And who was this Samaritan of our own
country and our own times. who did all these
noble and benevolent deeds-deeds far excel
ling those Of has ancient exemplar of the par
abie7 The Negro
Events take another turn The thieves are
overcome by armed force, and compelled to
deliver up such of their abused captives as
survived their baroarous treatment. That
was well. But that was not all. Peace was
made between the kinsnen of those rescued
captives and the thieves But what became
OF the Samaritan who had done so much for
them Well it is a sad story. He was left
among the thieves, to get along as well as he
could, and have just as much liberty as it
suited them 70 give him but il was agreed
that he should have no voice in their society,
or ANYTHING to say in the framing Of rules and
regulations for his own governmen. Things
were SO arranged that it il now ont of his
power to make any further progress in his
journey, and there he is this day. in nearly as
pitiable plight as when the Priest and the
levite first saw him lying in his blood and
passed by on the other side