Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-10-25
!. THE sEI.P surYIUiNS7 LNv1TE.

upon the priests, ana PROVIDED Clie sup
piles of the temple This Levite pass
Sing along this road where we are today
lstook a. loo,i at the niass of bruises and
| laceration in tile middle of the road.
g.Myl myl" says the lAevitc. this man
lis awfully hurt, and be ought to be
helped But my business is to sing in
l..thec choir at the temple. If am not
fthere noyone will carry my part. Be
sides that there may not be enough
sfrankincense for the censers. and the
swine or oil may have given out, and
fwhat fearful balk in the service that
| would make Then one of the priests
| might get his breastplate on crooked.
But it seems too bad to leave this lnan
lin this condition. Perhaps had bet
/ ter try to staunch this bleeding and
give lin IL little stinulant. But mol
The ceremony ut Jerusalem is Of more
than taking care of the
wounds of man who will probably
soon. be dead anyhow This highway
robbery ought to be stopped, for it hin
ders US I4evites on our way up to the
temple There. llve lost five min.
utes already! Go along. you BEAST"
he shouts as he strikes his heels into
the sides of the animal carrying him.
and the dust rising from the road soon
hides the hard hearted official.
But Il third person. is coming along
this road. You cannot expect him to
do anything by way of alienation, be-
cause he and the wounded man belong
to different nations, Which have aboln-
mated each other for centuries. The
wounded man is an Isrlcl.te. and the
stranger now coming on this scene of
suffering is II Samaritan. They belong
to nations which hated cacll other with
an obiur-ation end maIedictlon dia-
bolic They had opposition temples
one on Mount Gcrizim and the other
on Mount Moril.l-;lnd guess this
Samaritan, wiic.i lie comes un, will
give the fallen Israeite another clip
and say: "tiooM for you. will Just
finish the work these bandits began,
and give you one more kick that will
put you out Of your misery. And here
is rag OF your coat that they did not
steal. and will take that. WHAT Do
you dare to appeal TO Inc for mercy.
Hush up Why. your ancestors wor-
SHIPPED 1T Jerusalem when they ough;
to have worsliiped Ut Gerizin Now
take tillt an' that! and that" will
say tile Samaritan as he pounds the
fallen Israel;te.
sAMAR1A's NAME IMMoRTALIzED.
No; the Samaritan rides up to the
scene of suffering gets off the beast
and steps down and looks into the face
of the wounded man. and says: This
poor fellow does not belong to my na-
ton, and our ancestors worshipeI in
different places. but he is Il man, and
that makes us brothers. God pity him,
as | dol" And he gets down Oh his
knees and begins to examine his
wounds. and straiShtens out his limbs
to see if any of his bones are broken,
and says shy dear fellow, cheer up.
You need have no more care about
yourself. for aln going to take care of
you. Let me feel of your pulse! Let
me listen to your breathing! | have
in these bottles two liquids that will
| beIp YOU. The one is oil, and that will
soothe the pain OF these wounds, and
the other is wine, and your pulse is fee
BILE, and you feel faint, and that will
stimulate you. Now must get you TO
the nearest tavern" "Oh, MOI" says
the man. "a can't walk Let me stay
here and die" .Nonsense!" 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 lave a soft mat
tress and an easy pillow"
Now the Samaritan has got the
wounded man Oh his feet, and with
much tugging and Fitting puts linn on
the beast. for it is astonishing how
strong the spirit OF kindness will make
one, as you have seen "a mother after
three weeks of sleepless watching Of
her boy, down with scarlet fever, lift
that half grown boy, heavier than her
self, from couch to lounge. And so
this sympathetic Samaritan has, I'M
aided, put the wounded man in the
saddle, and at slow pace the extempo-
rized ambulance is moving toward the
tavern. "You feel better now, think, I"
saws the Samaritan to the Hebrew.
Yes" he says, Il DO feel better. !"
.'Halloo, you landlord help me carry
this man in and make him comfort
able" That night the Samaritan sat
up with the Jew, giving him water
whenever he felt thirsty, and turning
his pillow whenever it got hot, and in
the morning before the Samaritan
started on his journey, he said Land
lord, now am obliged to go. Take
good care of this man, and | will be
along here soon and pay you for all you
! do for. linn Meanwhile here is some.
thing e meet present expenses. -" The
two pence he gave the landlord
sounds small, but it was as much us
ten dollars here and now, considering
what it would there and then buy OF
food and lodging.
AS on that December noon we sat
nnder lie shadow Of the tavern where
this scene of mercy had occurred. and
Just having passed along the road
where the TRACED: Ind happened
could, rs plainly SIS now see the ncar-
est man on this platform. see that BIZ
BILE story re-enacted, and | sui aloud
J to onr group under )" tei,t "'''.. drop
| of practical Christianity is wort! more