Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-20


yon dare to appeal to me for mercy Hush
up Why. your ancestors worshiped at
Jerusalem when they ought to have wor-
SHIPPED at Gerizim. Now take that! and
that! and that" will say the Samaritan as
he pounds the fallen Israelite.
No the Samaritan rides up to the scene
OF suffering, gets off the beast and steps
down and looks into the face Of tile
wounded man and says: This poor fellow
does not belong to my nation, and our an
cestoFs worshiped in different places. but
he IS u man, and that makes us brothers.
God pity him. as do" And he gets down
on his knees and begins to examine his
wounds and straighten out his limbs to
see if any of his bones are broken, and saws:
MY dear fellow, cheer up. you need have
no more care about yourself, for am 70
ing to take care of you. Let me feel of
your pulse Let me listen to your breath
ingl ! have in these bottles two liquids
that will help you. The one is oil, and
that will soothe the pain of these wounds,
and the other is wine, and your pulse is
feeble and you feel faint, and that will
stimulate you Now must get you to the
nearest tavern" "Oh, no." says the man.
IL can't walk; let me stay here and die. !"
"Nonsensel' says the Samaritan. you
are not going to die. am going to put
you on this beast, and will hold You on
Til ! get You to IA place where you can
have soft mattress and an easy pillow"
Now the Samaritan has got the wounded
nun on his feet, and with much Juggling
and lifting puts him on the beast, for 1t is
astonishing how strong the spirit of kind
ness will make one, as you have seen, Il
mother after three weeks of seepless
watching Of her boy, down with scarlet
fever, lift that half grown boy heavier
than herself, from couch to lounge. Aud
so this sympathetic Samaritan has un.
aided put the wounded man in the saddle,
and at slow pace the cxtemporized ambu.
lance is moving toward the tavern "You
feel better now, | think" says the Samari.
tan to the Hebrew YES" he says, 81 do
feel better" "Halloo 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 when
ever he felt thirsty and turning his pillow
whenever it got hot and in the morning
before the Samaritan started on his Jour.
ney he said, Landlord now am obliged
to go Take good care of this man, and /
will be along here soon again and pay YOU
for all you do for him, Meanwhile here is
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
GOOD MEN IN ALL COMMuNIoNs.
AS on that December noon we sat under
the shadow Of the tavern where this scene
of mercy had occurred, and lust having
passed along the road where he tragedy
had happened, ! could, rs plainly rs now
see the nearest man to this platform, see
that Bible story re .enacted, and | said
aloud to our group under the tents zone
drop Of practical Christianity is worth
more than II templeful of eccesasticism,
and that good Samaritan had more religion
In five minutes than that mnisterand thar
Levite had in lifetime, and the most nc
cursed thing on earth is national prciu
dice, and ! bless God that | live in Ampri
en-, where Gentilc and jew, Protestant and
Catholic can live together without quar-
rel, aud where in the great national cruel
BILE the differences Of sect and tribe aud
people are being nodded into great
brotherhood, and that the question which
the lawyer flung at Christ, ana which
brought forth this incident of the good
Samaritan-'Who is my neighbor? is
bringing forth the answer, My neighbor
is the first man | meet in trouble and
wound close at hand calls louder than
temple seventeen miles off, though it GOV.
ers nineteen acres"
| saw in London the vast procession
which one day last January moved to st.
Ilubl'g hnIrol nt i,n, ,1,,f l,,
tian hero Lord Napier The day after at
lluwarden, in conversation on various
themes, asked Mr. Gladstone fhe did not
think that many who were under the
shadow of false religions might not never
thcless be ut heart really Christian. Mr.
Gladstone replied; Eyes; my old friend
Lord Napier, who was yesterday buried,
after he returned from his Abyssinian
visited us here Mt Hawarden,
and walking in this park where we are
now walking he told me very beauti-
full incident. He said After the war
in Africa was over we were on the
march, and we had soldier with n broken
leg who was not strong enough to 60 along
with us, aud we did not dare to leave him
60 be taken care of by savages, but we
found we were compelled to leave him, and
we went into the house of a woman who
was said to be II very kind woman, though
Of the race of savages, and we said, "Here
is sick man, and if you will take care of
him till he gets we'll we will pay you very
largely" and then we offered her five times
that which would ordinarily be offered,
hoping by the excess of pay to secure for
him great kindness. The woman replied:
81 will not take care of him for the money
you offer. do not want your money. But
leave him here and will take care of him
for the sake of the love of God -" Mr.
Gladstone turned to me and said DIR.
Talmage, don't you think that though she
belonged to n race Of savages that was
pure religon?" And | answered, ~ do;
| do.' May God multiply all the world
over the number of good Samaritansl
THE CHARITABLE WOMEN.
In Philadelphia n young woman was dy-
ing. She was Il wreck Suuken into the
depths OF drpravity, there was no lower
depth for her to reach. Word came to the
mission that she was dying in
haunt of iniquity near by. Who would go
TO tel her of the Christ of Mary MagdalenY
This one refused and that one refused, say
ing, II dare not 20 there \ Christian
woman, her white locks typical Of her
purity Of soul, said. 81 Will 20, and will
go now" She went and sat down 10y the
dying girl and told of the Christ who came
to seek and save that which was lost. First
TO the lorlorn one came the tears Of repent
ance, and then The smile, as though she
had begun to hu9e for the pardon Of him
who came to save to the uttermost. GhrN
Just before she brcathcd her last she said
to the angel of mercy bending over her pill
low, would you kis; me-" Il viii, 81 said
the Christian woman, as she put upon her
check the last salutatiuu before, in the
heavenly world, think, God gave her the
kiss That was religion! Yes,
that was religion. Good Samaritaus along