The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-21

e.=great--qaestien, Who is my
neigh borY The Samaritan's eyesees
i the distress and his heart feels it.
| Before him lay man, probably an
enemy to his people-yet he is a hui
man being, and an unhappy one at
that. He cannot pass him by, for the
distress seen by the eye and felt at the
heart will be relieved by the Samara-
| tan's hand. Who would not press
that noble Samaritan hand?
Fellowman and Christian do you
now know who thy neighbour is
Every human being without regard to
birth, race, education and religion is
your neighbor, and if in need may ex-
pect your aid. And now if you can
not see where your assistance lis
wanted, you must be blind with see
| ing eyes; and if you don't wish to be
directed to single cases i will show
you throDgs of needful. German
countrymen, look to Castle Garden at
New York where every day hundreds
of your people set their feet upon the
land of their expectations. Ignor-
ant of the national language, and in
most eases without means, they stand
in a strange land without advice or
assistance. Like the slave, they are
an article of trade, they are treated
like sayages,i and are transported like
brutes. Look upon the depressed
features of yonder father. He has the
strength and the courage too, to care
for his family by the sweat of his
brow; look upon the care-worn coun-
tenance of yonder mother, who is
conscious Of possessing more than an
ordinary share of perseverance to
carefully bring up her children, and
faithfully stand by the side of her
husband Then cast glance.
upon their little ones looking up to
their parents with their large blue
eyes, through whom our country will
be benefited to their and our own
good-all under the condition that
we assist them by advice and action
upon their arrival. This assistance,
to be extended to them on their arri-
val. depends upon our charity. Now,
if there is a feeling heart in your
breast, then give a mite from your
abundance, and / will be ever ready
to thankfully receive the same, and
see that it will be applied in the right
place. $50
Another needful throng are our
Protestant brethren in religion. Com
pared with the Catholic Mission. re-
markable for its activity, we are far
behind with our Gustavus Adolphus
Society. They, being under common
protection, STAND from US closed
phalanx, reaction against all self
thought. against all progress, religious
or political; while ours, with the
ho Of han1 90 H.,
isolated and alone. These people re-
ceive no wholesome intellectual nour-
ishment; there exists no tie of COM
munity; and in their confusion no
unity Of action can take place.
Thousands of our people in this con-
fusion are in want of the means, viz:
Christian Churches and Schools.
You have an idea of the efficiency of
a single mans actions, if you have
sympathy for the forsaken ones,
knowing that unassisted they will not
reach their destiny. Then give
mite from your abundance to the
Gustavus Adolphus Society. / will
receive it thankfully, and place it in
the right hands.
But aside from the Christian or our
evangelical brethren in religion, there
is great throng of those much In
need of help. They are the heathens
generally. But don't look for them
great way off. Those who were freed
from the letters of slavery by bloody
civil war are entitled to demand from
their deliverers an intellectual eman-
cipation. They need protection; of
person-let the State see to that.
They need spiritual education-and
this is the duty for Christians, who
have themselves, In their homes and
in all their social relations, expert
enced and acknowledged the supreme
power of the Christian religion. How
many of these heather live upon the
American continent or on some other 1
spot Of God earth. They all extend
their hands and call out to US, Come
and help US Love alone will heed |
this call. The love for our brethren,
springs from the fountain of
love for our Heavenly Father; there
fore in the first place let US plant the
fear of God in every heart, and make
known Him, in whom Heavenly love |
was manifest-Christ, Then will |
follow therefrom, to the |
creature for the sake of the Creator,
and to man, on account OF the ex-
ample set US by the noblest of all born
IF woman" Love for thy neighbor."
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