The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-10-31

ambulance is moving toward the tavern.
"You feel better now, Il think" says tho Sa.
,naritan to the Hebrew. "Yes" he SAYS 81
do feel better" ''Halloo, you landlordl 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 1t got hot, and in tho morning before
the Samaritan started on his Journey no
said, Landlord, now 1 am Obliged to go.
Take good care of this man, md will be
along here soon again and pay you for all
you do for him. Meanwhile here Is some
thing 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
5 then buy of food and lodging.
-. Aa on that December noon we sat under
h1dow Of the tavern where this scene of
~ had occurred, and just having passed.
along the road where the tragedy had hap-
psnod, could, as plainly as I now see the
story re-enactod, and I said aloud to our
group, under the Stentsn..One drop OF prac-
tical Christianity Is worth moro than tenn
pleful Of ecclesiasticism, and that good Sa-
maritan had more religion In five minutes
than that minister and that Levlte 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, Protestant and Catholic can live to-
gether without quarrel, and where in tho
great national crucible the differences of sect
and tribe and people are being nodded into u
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 neighbour is bringing
iorth the answer, My neighbor Is the first
man meet in trouble and a wound close at
hand calls louder than q temple seventeen
miles OIL, though 1t covered nineteen acres"
saw In London the vast procession which
one day last January moved to ST. Paurs
Cathedral Of the burial of that Christian
hero Lord Napier. Tho day after at Hawar-
den, in conversation on various themes l
asked Mr.. Gladstone If he did not think that
many who were under the shadow Of false
| really 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
we are now walking he told me a very beau
| tiful incident. He said: After the war in
Africa was over we were on the march, and
| we had soldier with broken leg
| 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 a woman who was
race Of savages, and we said, "Here is
a 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 ordi-
narily be offered, hoping by tho excess of
pay to secure for him great kindness. The
woman replied: ~ will not take care of him
for the money you offer. l 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 mo and
said, "Dr. Talmage, don't you think that
though she belonged to race Of savages that
was pure reIigionp And answered, ~ do;
the number Of good Samaritansi
| 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 tho midnight
mission that she was dying in a haunt of
iniquity near by. Who would go to tell her
of the Christ OF Mary Magdalen2 This one
refused and that one refused, saying, II
dare not go there" A Christian woman,
her white locks typical Of her purity Of soul,
said, II WA go, and l will so now." sh,
Of Christ who came to seek and save that
which was lost. First to the forlorn one
came the tears of repentance, and
then the smile, as though she had
S tor the the Of Tbsn H
| lust before she breathed her last she said to
Ss angel Of mercy bending over her pillow,
tshfstian woman. as she put upon her cheek
{af9&aASt sallItation before. in the heavenly
E { thinh. God gave her the welcoming
ErV - ibsss ,s4,s TeiiS Siori! Yes, that was re.
Is 6Siak Good Samaritans along every street
k ~ 1y4Eery road as we'll as this one on
'-tsttkAdY Procession of sightseers is again
" @ @ sssa ~ RAat 5sakaSHgh SassR
whatPlace do you call thisg' and he re-
plieds. ..This is the Brook Cherith, whero
! ElijaH,'was fed by the ravens" And in
| that answer he overthrow my life long
notions Of the place where Elijah was waited
! on Ny the black servants of the sky. A
/ brook TO me had meant u slight depression
ofiSfRund and stream fordable, and per-
hapS6 fifteen feet wide. But here was chasm
tha4<n earthquake must havo scooped out
VIII Its biggest shovel or split with its
| deep Is it, and the brook Cherith Is a river
which, when in full force, is a silver wedge
J. splitting the mountains into precipices. The
Sfeathefed descendants or Eiijahs ravens still
ewing their way across this ravine but are
| not like the crows wo supposed them 60 be.
! They are as large cagles. and ore Of them
could carry in its beak and clinclied claw at
! once enough food for half dozen Elijahs
! No thanks to the ravens; they are carniv-
erous, and would rather have picked out the
eyes of Elijah, whom they found at the
mouth OF tho cave on the side of Cherith
waiting for his breakfast, having drunk his
n orning beverlgs from t,fs rushing stream
beneath, than have been his buffers and
purveyors.
But God compelled them, as He always has
%compelled and always will compel black and
cruel and overshadowing providences &c
.ecarry hoiP 90 Hfs children II ohcy only have
'11&>nHApougn To catch the blessing as It drops
! from the seeming adversity, the greatest
blessing always coming not with white wings
but black wings. Black wings of convfc
tion, bringing pardon to the sinner. Black
wings of crucifixion over Calvary, bringing
redemption for the world Black wings oI
| American revolution, bringing free institu
tions to a continent. Black wings Of
american civil war, bringing unifica
Black wings Of the Judgment day
bringing resurrection to an entombed
human race. And in the last day, when ali
your life and mine will be summed up, we
will find that the greatest blessing we ever
| received came on tho wings of the black
ravens Of disaster. Bless God for troubIe
Bless God for sicknessl Bless God for perse-
cutioni Bless God for poverty You never
heard of any man or woman Of great use to
the world who had not had lots of trouble.
Tho diamond must be cut; the wheat must
he threshed; the black ravens must fiy Who