The Iola register., 1890-10-31

Gerizim and the other on Mount No
riah, and guess this Samaritan when
he comes up will give the fallen Israel.
lite another clip and say: Good for you'
will Just finish the work these bandits
began, and give you one more kick tina,
will put you out of your misery. And
here is rag of your coat that they ala
not steal and / will take that Whatl
Do you dare to appeal to me for mercy!
Hush up! Why, your ancestors wor.
shipped at Jerusalem when they ought
to have worshiped 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
the wounded man and says: This poor
fellow does not belong to my nation,
and our ancestors worshiped in differ
ent places, but he is a man, and that
makes us brothers. God pity him, as
dor 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 says: my
dear fellow, cheer up, you need have no
more care about yourself, for am going
| to take care Of you. Let me feel OF your
pulsei Let me listen to your breathing!
l 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" so, no." says the
man; II can't walk; let me stay here
and die" Nonsense" says the Sa-
maritan. "You are not going to die. l
am going to put you on this beast and l
will hold you on till get you to a place
where you can have soft mattress and
an easy pillow"
Now the Samaritan has got the wound
ed man on his feet and with much tug
ging 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 lever, lift that half grown
boy, heavier than herself, from couch
to lounge. And so this sympathetic
Samaritan has, unaided, 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 Samaritan
to the Hebrew. YES" he says, 81 do
feel better" "Halloo! you, landlord!
hal,1 .1 olro
him comfortable" 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 Samari-
tan started on his Journey he said:
Landlord, now l 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 something to meet present expenses"
As on that Decem Der noon we sat un-
der the shadow of the tavern where this
scene of mercy had occurred, and just
having passed along the road where the
tragedy had happened, l could, as
plainly as now see the nearest man to
this platform, see the Bible story re-en-
acted, and said aloud to our group un-
der the tent: One drop of practical
Christianity is worth more than a
temple full of ecclesiasticism. and that
good Samaritan had more religion in
| five minutes than that minister and
Levite had in a lifetime, and the most
accursed thing on earth is national
prejudice, and bless God that live in
| America where Gentle and Jew, Prot
estant and Catholic can live together
without quarrel, and where, in the great
National crucible, the differences of sect
and tribe and people are being nodded
into a great brotherhood, and that the
question which the lawyer flung at
Christ and which brought forth this in
cident of the good Samaritan, who is
my neighbour" is bringing for the
answer: MY neighbor is the first man
meet in trouble" and wound close
at hand calls louder than a temple sew
enteen miles off, though 1t covers nine
teen acres.
/ saw in London the vast procession
which one day last January moved to
St Paul's cathedral at the burial of that
Christian hero, Lord Napier The day
after at Hawarden, in conversation on
various themes, l asked Mr.. Gladstone
IL he did not think that many who were
under the shadow of false religions
might not nevertheless os at heart real
ly Christian. Mr.. Gladstone replied:
Yes; my old friend Lord Napier who
was yesterday buried, after he returned
from his Abyssinian campaign, visited
US here at Hawarden and, walking in
this park where we are now walking, he
told me a very beautiful incident He
said: after the war in Africa was over,
we were on the march and we had SOL
dier with broken leg who was not
strong enough to go along with US and
we did not dare to leave him to be taken
care of by savages, but we found we
were compelled to leave him and We
went into the house of woman who
was said to be very kind woman,
| though Of the race of sayages, and we
said: Here is a sick man, and il 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
Woulu oruAnariiy Ue oAerSus HopihS
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. 1 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 be-
longed to a race of savages, that was
pure religion?" And I answered: 81
do: / do" May God multiply all the