Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-10-31

will hold you on till l get you TO q 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 aston
ishing 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 herself from couch to
lounge. And so this sympathetic Samaritan
has unaded put the wounded man in the
saddle, and at slow pace the extemporized
ambulance is moving toward the tavern.
"You feel better now, | think" says the Sa-
maritan TO the Hebrew. "Yes he says Il
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 whenever
he felt thirsty and turning his pillow when.
ever il 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 tn 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
tnen buy Of food and lodging.
As on that December noon we sat under
/ the shadow of the tavern where this scene OF
mercy had occurred and just having passed
nlong the road where, the tragedy had hap
pened, could, as plainly as ! now zee the
nearest man to this platform, see that Bible
story re enacted, and l said aloud to our
group under the tent: "One drop Of prac-
teal Christianity is worth more than tenn
pleful OF ecclesinsticism and that good Sa-
mnritan had more religion in five minutes
than that minister and that LevIte had in
| lifetime, and the most accursed thing on
| earth is national prejudice, and | bless God
! that live in America, where Gentle and
Jew, Protestant and Catholic can live to-
| gether without quarrel, and where in the
| great national crucble the differences of sect
and tribe and people are being nodded into
! great brotherhood. and that the question
| which the lawyer flung at Christ, and which
/ brought forth this incident OF the good Sa-
maritan-'Who is my neighbor? Is bringing
/ forth the answer, MY neighbor is the first
! man meet i'll trouble and wound close at
I hand calls louder than u temple seventeen
miles eff, though it covered nineteen acres" p"
saw in London the vast procession which
( one day last January moved 70 st. PduFs
! Cathedral at the burial of that Christian
hero Lord Napier. TIE day after at Hawar.
/ den, in conversation on various themes, |
asked Mr. Gladstone il he did not think that
! many who were under the shadow of false
| religions might not nevertheless be at heart
really Christian. Mr.. Gladstone replied:
"Yes; my old friend Lord Napier, who was
Yesterday buried, after he..returned from his
Abyssinlan campaign, visited US here at
! Hawardep, and walking in this park where
! we are now walking he told me very beau
tiiul incident. He said: After the war IN
| Africa was over we were on the march, and
we had n soldier with a broken leg
who was not strong enough TO SO along
with us, and we did not dare to leave
him te 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 very kind woman, though OF the
race of savages, and we said, Here Is
a sick man. and il you will take care
OF him til he gets well we VIII pay,
YOU very largely and then we offered
her Ave times that which would ordi-
narily be offered, hoping by the excess OF
pay to secure for him great kindness. The
woman replied: II 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, "Dr. Talmage, don't you think that
though she belonged to race OF savages that
was pure reigionp And | answered, II do;
the number of good Samaritans!
In Philadelphia young woman was dying.
She was wreck. Sunken into the depths
of depravity, there was no lower depth for
her TO reach. Word came to the midnight
mission that she was dying IN a haunt of
iniquity near by. Who would go to tell her
of the Christ of Mary Magdalenf This one
refused and that one refuse', saying, II
dare not go there" A Christian woman,
lD.,i-u frr,ral nf har nttrtfy pf
said, II will 60, and | will go now" Sh
went and sat down by the dying girl and told
Of Christ who came to seek and save that
which was lost. First to the forlnrn one
came the tears of repentance. and
then the smile, as though she had
begun TO hope for the pardon of Hin
who came 10 save to the uttermost. Then
Just before she breathed her last she said to
the angel of mercy bending over her pillow,
"Wouid you kiss meyn n will" said the
Christian woman as she put upon her cheek
the last salutation before, in the heavenly
world, think. God gave her the welcoming
kiss. That was religion Yes, that was re
ligion. Good Samaritans along every street
and along every road as well as this one on
the road TO Jericho,
But our procession of sightSeers is again
In line, and here We pass through a deer
ravine, and cry to the dragoman: David
| WUdU DlhC6 uO you CiI bulhG anu ne lc
oiled. This is the Brook Cherith, where
Elijah was fed by the ravens" And IN
that answer he overthrow my life long
notions of the place where Elijah was waiteC
on by the black servants of the sky.
brook to me had meant slight depression
Of ground and stream fordable, and per
haps fifteen feet wide. But here was a chasu
that an earthquake must have scooped ou
with its biggest shovel or split with 1t
mightiest battle AK. Six hundred feet
deep is it, and the brook Cherith is rive
which, when in full force, is silver wedg,
splitting the mountains into precipices. Tn,
feathered descendants of Elijahs ravens still
wing their way across this ravine, but ar,
not like the crows we supposed them to be
They are as large as eagles, and one of then
could carry in its beak and clipched claw a
once enough food for half dozen Eli ijahs
No thanks to the ravens; they are carniv
erous, and would rather have pickel out th'
eyes Of Elijah, whom they found at TIL
mouth Of the cave on the side OF Chertl
waiting for his breakfast, having drunk hi
morning beverage frcm the rushing stream
beneath, than have been his buffers ant
purveyors.
But God compelled them, as He always ha
compelled and always will compel black an,
cruel and overshadowing proyidences L
carry help to His children il they only hav
faith enough to catch the blessing as it drop
from the seeming adversely, the creates
blessing always coming not with white wing
but black wings. BLACK wings OF convic
ton, bringing pardon to the sinner Bac.
wings of crucfixion over Calvary, bringin,
redemption for the world. Black wings o
American revolution, bringing free institu
tions to continent Black wings o
American civil war; bringing uuitlca
ton and solidarity to the republic
Black wings of the Judgment da
bringing resurrection to an entombe
human race. And in the last day, when al
your life and mine will bs summed up W
will find that the greatest blessing We eve
received came on tho wings of the blac
ravens of disaster. Bless God for trouble
Bless God for sickness! Bless God for psrst