The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-04-27
Ghildreu's Column.
The Good Samaritan.
BY AUNT SARAH.


bath day tomorrow and our teacher is so
pleased when we know our lesson. She
says she will give US card every time
and if we get forty cards then we are
to have present at Christmas. Won't
that be good?'
Yes, indeed, it will. Where are the
boys?" said Miss Fenton, putting aside
her work.
Don't you hear them coming up the
hall, singing I'm soldier?" They did
not want to come so mamma tod them
they could march to that tune we have
Just learned"
Well, Harry, please sing that over
again, while | get some Bibles and my
Lesson Leaf" said his Auntie, as he
came tramping in with Charlie following
on, just as they had left their play in the
nursery, all rugged up as soldiers with
paper caps and wooden guns. The drum
had to be put away, so they kept time
with singing instead:
I'm soldier, soldier of the cross,
Little soldier of the cross,
In the army of the Lord;
Fierce and many are the foes
lie will help me to oppose,
For my Captain is the Saviour gone before me-"
ION, on, on, 1 am marching on
Home to glory Home to glory"
"Oh, Auntie, do tell us story" said
Charlie, as he climbed up in her lap and
put his arms around her neck most
coaxingly, for he was great pet, being
only five years oil, 81 don't want to
have any lesson"
My dear boy, that's just what I'll do
at the same time, for the lesson is a story
that Jesus told"
Was it about a boy like me?" asked
Harry, who was over ten years old, or
was it about a big man? am going
to be man pretty soon you know"
1t was about a man who was a
Jew"
What's his name, Auntie?" put. in
Charlie
His name isn't given. He was going
from Jerusalem to Jericho, and some
robbers met him on the road and took
everything he had, even his clothes"
"Why didn't he shoot EN- quick
like Harry does ?" asked little Charlie
They did not have guns then you
know, but only sharp spears and swords. 4"
Did he Just let the robbers take his
things without fighting them ?" inquired
Harry.
II think not, said his Auntie, "be-
cause he was left very much hurt, seem
ing to be half dead, and so he likely must
have tried to keep them off or get away
from them.
did nobody come along just them"
asked May. !"That's the way in stories :"
Yes; priest or teacher of the law in
the temple passed that way"
I'm so gladl" said Charlie. "He
took care of him right off, didn't hep"
mo; he did not, strange to say.
Christ tells us that when he saw him he
passed by on the other side Of the road,
and did not come near him"
Why, Auntie, are you very sure that
is the way it reads? How could he do
so and he priest?
Here it is, May, in your own little
Bible, given you on your birth day.
Now you are seven years old, you must
learn to read God s own words for your
self. Harry may find it, too, in my
Bible. Luke K. 31st verse. See what it
says in the next verse about the man who
came after the priest
Harry reads And likewise Levite
when he was at the place, came and
looked on him and passed by on the other
side"
oh, did the poor man die?" gasped
Charlie.
mo; kind, good Samaritan, man
who lived in part Of Canaan where the
people did not like the Jews at all-did
not want to have anything to do with
them-he came along too. This poor
Jew, lying there so weak and full of
I'ain must have felt sorry to see such a
man coming. He had no reason to think
he would help him, for if the priest and
LeVite passed by, who were his own
people, why should this man even look at
him, who was an enemy? The Samari-
tan was riding, too, and it would not be
so easy to stop
Why couldn't he take the Jew
right along in his wagon?' asked Char
lie.
He had no wagon, answered his
Auntie
"Oh, then he was Oh horse back r. he
cried, which was the best of all riding for
him.
"The Bible only says, he set him on
his own beast'-whateve that was-'and
brought him to an inn-a house where
people stopped to rest and eat and drink
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