The true northerner., 1890-05-28
TUE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY AND
ABLY CONSIDERED.

tures-Time Well Spent.
Tue lesson for Sunday. June /. may be
found In Luke 10: 25-37.
INTRODUCTORY
There stands out before us in the present
lesson the figure OF the Good Samaritan.
an affecting picture OF Christ himself, COM
ing 10 seek and 20 save that which was lost.
Tho lesson OF IL all is to be found in ono
word-compaSsion. CHI ist comes near TO
men. Christ takes hold OF men and lifts
them up. Christ takes the burden or care
OF men upon himself. And wherever you
find successful Christian work being done
IL Is always IN such "A spirit and at such a
cost ease and comfort laid aside. WELL
formed plans broken or. at least, modified:
pause on the way. hand put out. a
shoul .er put underneath. property and
purse made subject TO spiritual demand
mat Is what IL takes TO save souls. God
mas given you some such precious trophies
In your work of lafe. Christian brother.
Is there one OF the saved who has not been
on some ones heart "a veritable burden; for
whom good Samaritan work has not been
done?
WHAT THE LESSON SAYS,
certain lawyer. One learned in the
law. Mark calls him one OF the scribes.
MARX l22S.) But "A distinction seems TO
be made at Luke IL l:14-4G. The term lawyer
seems to DO more general than tnat Of
scribe.--Tempted hun. Or tested. Our
expression ito sound" would come nearer
the meaning. The lawyer aimed TO make
trial Of MIN TO see what he would say. The
same word is used at Luke 4:12. Thou
shalt not tempt the Lord thg God" l. e..
put 10 unilllal test. or. Deut. GIG; TX. 17:7.
DO. The emphasis seems TO be on
this wosd. BY dong what snail inherit
eternal lite?-lnherit BY right of
meIitorious labor. II was query OF work.
righteousness.
In tue law. The book which laid down
expressly the rules of Il righteous life.-
lou Int
the preceding question. How obtain eternal
liie?-Readest thou. sort OF arr umen-
tpm al hominem. Tde twyer was pro-
fessional rea Ter OF the law
Thou shalt love. This is OF manifested
love (agapao.) With ali thy heart. Lit
eIaly and eXpressively. out OF all thy heart.
So also In the particulars that follow. 1t
refers TO an enlistment OF all the energies OF
life.-Heart. In New Testament Greek
generally. we should say. the seat OF the
intellect rather than with Us OF the feelings.
See Matt. ID: ID. SO here.-Soul. The
lie principle psyche). With all the power
OF ones personality Up TO
the measure OF ones moral force.-Mind.
Reflective power (dia-n noia to turn over in
the mind). Heart" would thus refer to ap-
prehension; mind" 10 mprehension.-
Thy neighbor. Literally. the near one
AS thysel. AS you love yourself. l. e.. with
proper love.
Right. The ans wer Of the tongue better
than the answer OF tue lie.-Thls DO. He
had asked what 20 do. Christ let's him an
swer his own query.-Live. To do just
what the law requires would he essentially
eternal life. The law and the gospel are
not at variance. The one tells what TO do.
the other how alone TO do IL.
Willing 10 justify or wishing 10 vndicate.
He sees himself defeated and his weapon
turned against thmself-Whoi is my ne.yh-
Dor? An artlul but lnefTe ctull evasion,v He
would excuse his conduct by narrowing his
obligations.
Answering. More accurately. taking him
up Chupo- -labCn). The same word used OF
Simon the fharisee, i suppose" Il would
venture). Luke 7: 43. CT. Acts 9: IA
certain man. lis insignihcance is part
OF the argument Never mind who.-Went
down. More accurately was going down
Qmpe fecO O--JerusaIem 20 jericho. A
down hill road; twenty miles. Thieves.
Who could easily hido in the rocky fast
nesses OF the eway.-Stripped. Suggesting
the barbarous spoliations OF the day. The
dress would be part OF the booty. SO
with Christ on the cross luke %: a. -
Wounded him. Literally inflicted blows.
Intimating their brutality and heartless-
ness.
Showed mercy. Literally. did mercy.
Do thou likewise. Duty enforcing doctrine.
WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES.
What snail 1 do? This is not like the
what must l doy" Of Acts 1G 30. Nor the
what wilt thou have me To do?" OF Acts
9: q. The emphasis is different; the whole
spirit is other. 1t is not the appeal of
psnitent, the agonized cry OF one anxious
10 know the way of escape. Rather is it the
snrewd query of one who desired to con-
fuse or entrap. He was taken according to
mis- intent and in the trap he set for an
other he himself presently found himself
caught
HOW readest thou? BE careful how you
read. The matter and amount of this
lawyers reading was beyond reproach. 1t
Was the manner and temper of his re aiding
! that was ut fault. There Is "a great deal OF
good reading in the world-a great deal
and very little. A large number of people
are reading good books; there are not SO
many ood readers. What a multitude of
Bible readers to-day ana how lew finding
| therein what every man ought at once 10
| discover-eternal lile Here in this school
| day many have the Book open; few have
opened the hearts door pertinent ques-
ton 10 us all How readest thou?"
Who is my neighbor? The lawyer was
worsted in his first approach. Starting out
! on the aggressive. he has suddenly turned
to be on the defensive. that is what the
| expression, willing TO justify himself.
means. He is trying 10 vindicate himself.
excuse his conduct. just now proven incon-
! sistent and vain. And who is my neighbor? {?
he rctorts. Christ tells him just what he
asks. His real neighbor. his companion in
| lack-love and unsympathy is the callous
! priest and heartless Levite. He has no
neighborly feeling Tor the Samaritan. None
| NHdlcNtT, 81 ldT US uttuS 20 IOT l0e man
| who fell among thieves. He has really no
neiehbor other than himself.
He passed by on the otner side. Not ex-
! actly. The simple Greek is he passed on
| by. Usually we think of the priest and
| Levite as coming near and then boldly and
basey turning aside out OF the way-theirs
"a sort OF outbreaking and insolent neglect.
| But not so. They did nothing moro than
! pa s by. They came and looked and then
| went right on their way with out stopping
or swerving. SO we have all done. and
very often. We have come up TO an oppor-
| tunity TO do good. We have looked at IL "A
moment. and then-why then we passed on.
| And that moment we committed the sin OF
he Levite. To fail OF charita bleness or OF
| Christlness we need not 60 out OF our way
/ at all. 1t was only the Good Samaritan who
went out OF his way.
Go and do. The lawyer wanted TO know
TWO things: First. what to do2 and, second.
where TO do it2 Christ answers both
questions here. What? Why. go. do Just
| what the law you profess to study saws.
Where. 10 whom? Wherever and with
VII cmsocver the opportunity offers. which
low OF these three" Christ had Just asked.
showed himself neighborlv2" ?" The lawyer
answered. promptly. "He that showed Tor.
.ather. did mercv." Quick comes the re-
| sponse. GO and do thou" The application
3 personal enough.
Next Lesson-"Teaching to Pray. Luke
| Il: l. l3.