Sharp County record., 1890-11-06


says the Samaritan. "You are not going
to die. am going to put you on this
beast and | will hold you on till | get
you to a place where you can have a
soft mattress and an easy pillow"
Now the Samaritan has got the
wounded man on his feet and
with much tugging and lifting,
puts him on the beast, for it is
astonishing how strong the spirit of
kindness will make one, as you have
seen mother after three weeks of
sleepless watching Of her boy, down
with scarlet fever, lift that half-grown
boy, heavier than herself, from couch
to lounge. And so this sympathetic
Samaritan has, unaided, put the wound
ed man in the saddle, and at slow pace
the extemporized ambulance is moving
toward the tavern. "You feel better
now, l think" says the Samari-
tan to the Hebrew. "Yes," he
says, 81 do feel better" "Hal-
loo, you landlord help me
carry this man in and make him COM
Portable" That night the Samaritan
sat up with the jew, giving him water
whenever he felt thirsty and turning
his pillow when it got hot and in the
morning before the Samaritan started
on his journey, he said; Landlord,
now, am obliged to go. Take good
care of this man and l will be along
here soon again and pay you for all you
do for him. Meanwhile here is some
thing to meet present expenses. :" The
"two pence" he gave the landlord
sounds small, but it was as much as ten
dollars here and now, considering what
it would there and then buy of food and
lodging -.
In Philadelphia a young woman was
dying. She was wreck Sunken into
the depths of depravity, there was no
lower depth for her to reach. Word
come to the midnight mission that she
was dying in haunt of iniquity near
by. Who would go to tell her of the
Christ of Mary Magdalen? This one
refused, and that one refused, saying:
81 dare not go there" A Christian
woman, her white locks typical of her
purity of soul, said 81 will go, and l
will 60 now" She went and sat down
by the dying girl and told OF
the Christ who came to seek and save
that which was lost. First to the for
lorn one came the tears of repentance,
and then the smile as though she had
begun to hope for the pardon of Him
who came to save to the uttermost.
Then, just before she breathed her last,
she said to the angel of mercy bending
over her pillow: Would you kiss me?"
81 will" said the Christian woman, as
she put on her cheek the last salutation
before in the heavenly world, | think,
God gave her the welcoming kiss. That
was religion! Yes, that was religion.
Good Samaritans along every street, and
along every road, as we'll as this one on
the road to Jericho.
But our procession of sight-seers is
again in line, and here we pass through
deep ravine, and l cry to the drago-
man. David, what place do you call
tnlss' and he replied: This is the
brook Cherith, where Elijah was fed by
the ravens" And in that answer he
overthrow my lifelong notions of the
place where Elijab was waited on by
the black servants of the sky A brook
to me had meant slight depression of
ground and stream fordable, and per-
haps fifteen feet wide. But here was
chasm that an earthquake must have
scooped out with its biggest shovel
or split with its mightiest battle
axe. Six hundred feet deep is
it, and the brook Cherith
is river, which, when in full force, is
silver wedge, splitting the mountains
into precipices. The feathered de-
scendants of Elijah's ravens still wing
their way across this ravine, but are not
like the crows we supposed them to be.
They are as large as eagles, and one Of
them could carry in its beak and
cllnched claw at once enough food for a
half dozen Elijahs. No thanks to tho
ravens; they are carnivorous, and would
rather have picked out the eyes of
Elijah, whom they found at the mouth
Of his cave on the side Of Cherith, wait
ing for his breakfast, having drunk his
morning beverage from the rushing
stream beneath, than have been his but
lers and purvoyors.
But God compelled them, as He has
always compelled and always will COM
pei black and cruel and overshadowing
providences, to carry help to His chill
dron If they only have faith enough to
catch tho blessing as 1t dropped from
tho seeming advorsity the greatest
blessing always coming, not with white
wings, but black wings Black wings
Of conviction bringing pardon to the
sinner Black wings of cruclhxion over
Calvary, bringing redemption for tho
world, black wings OF American rovo.
luton bringing FREQ institutions to
continent Black wings of Ameri.
can civil war, bringing unihcation
and solidarity TO the republic.
Black wings of tho Judgment day. bring
ing resurrection to an ontombed human
race, And in the last day, whom all
your life and mino will bo summed up,
wo will find that the greatest blessing
we over received came on the wings of