St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-08
THE JERICHO ROAD.
The Lesson of the Story OF the
Good Samaritan.

Good Samaritan.
Rev. D. J. Burrell preached at West
minister yesterday from Luke X, 30-337.
We are accustomed to speak of this
portion of Scripture as ''The Parable OF
the Good Samaritan" but, in fact. there
is no reason whatever. for regarding it
as parable. 1t is rather narrative
of an actual occurrence, bloody deed
that was wrought on the way from
Jerusalem to Jerico. This road, run
ming a distance of twenty-One miles
through dry river-bed, is to this day
so infested by robbers that no traveller
goes without a guard. jerome called
it the The Bloody Road" Our life is
journey through dangerous country.
Sin is Ali-Baba, and he has more than
forty armed lusts and passions that
ever lie in waiting for the unWary soul.
We have all been hit by stones and
arrows shot from their ambush, and
all along the way lie such as have
been wounded unto death. What is to
be done for them? Who will look after
the sin-stricken multitude, the criminals
and tramps, the drunkards and bawds,
the vast numbers of Outcast and lost?
First-The priest looked on the
stricken man and passed by. This priest
was dOctrinaire. Let us look on him
and learn the impotency of theoretical
or abstract truth. The Bible on shelf
is as powerleSs as sword hanging on
nail. The 107 propositions of our
Shorter Catechism are of themselves as
weak as homeopathic pellets before
being drenched in the mother tincture.
The only truth worth mentioning is APP
piled truth. Creeds have their place
and cannot be dispensed with; but sin
and its ravages are not to be met and
overcome by paper manlfeStoeS.
ut is condition and not
theory that confrontS u.s." Second
The Levite also looked on the sufferer
and passed by. He was the ideal high
churchman. Let us learn from him the
powerleSSneSS of ceremOnialiSm to re-
lieve the unfortunate or deliver the lost.
The church is vast organism designed
for the saving of the world, but of itself
1t can do nothing. 1t is like the COM
plicated mechanism which Ezekiel saw
wheels of beryl, fOur-faced wheels,
wheels within wheels, but all without
power or motion except as the spirit
moved within them. Oh, that God
would breathe more of His own ami
mating and invigOrating breath into all
our departments of ecclesiastical work !!
Let us love our churches. but let US
ever love Christ more. Let us give and
labor and deny self for the,
churches sake, but let us do
thousand times mole for
the sake of the SHINING. struggling, suf-
fering multitude for whom our Saviour
died.
Third-The Good Samaritan saw this
wounded man, had compassion on him,
bound up his cuts and bruises, and took
him to an inn. He stands pre-eminently
for Christ, who came from heaven,
lived, labored, suffered and died for US,
He stands also for the sincere follower
of Christ. who, following in the steps of
his Master, goes about doing good. The
business of all good Christians is to
help the unfortunate, uplift the fallen
and save the lost. 1t is glorious work !!
What is money-getting, or pleasure
getting, or hOnor-getting to this? Let
all earnest men and women join us. To
the rescue! is the watchword; to the
rescue of all the sin-Stricken in the
name of Jesus the Christ.