The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-10-30

helped. But my business Is to sing in
the choir at the temple. II l am not
there no one will carry my part. Be-
sides that there may not lie enough
frankincenSe for the censers and the
wine or oil may have given out, and
what a fearful balk In the service that
would make. Then one Of tho priests
might get his breastplato on crooked.
But it seems too bad to leave this man
In this condition. Perhaps 1 had bet
ter t-y to stanch this bleeding and give
him little stimulant. But no! The
ceremony at Jerusalem is Of moro i'm
portance than taking care Of the wounds
Of a man who will probably soon be
ought to be stopped, for it hinders us
Levites on our way up to the temple.
There, / have lost five minutes already!
Go along, you beastW 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.
A CHRISTIAN IN PRACTICE.
But third person is coming along
this road. You cannot expect him to
DO anything by way of alienation, be-
cause he and tho wounded man belong
to different nations, which have abom-
mated each other for centuries. The
wounded man Is an Israelite, and tho
stranger now coming on this scene Of
suffering is a Samaritan. They belong
to nations which hated each other with
an ohjurgation and malediction dia-
bolic. They had opposition temples
one on Mount GeriZim and the other on
Mount Moriah-and guess this Sama-
ritan, when he comes up, will give the
fallen Israelite another clip and say:
Good for you'll l will just finish the
work these bandits began, and givcyou
one more kick that will put you out of
your misery. And here is a rag of
your coat that they did not steal, and |
will take that. Whatl DO you dare to
apr cal to for mercy? Hush up! Why,
your ancestors worShiped at Jerusalem
when they ought to have worshiped at
Gerizim. Now take that! and thatl
and that! !" will say the Samaritan as he
pounds the fallen 1sraelite.
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
that makes us brothers. God pity him,
as l do" And he gets down on his
knees and begins to examine his
wounds and straighten out his limbs to
see II 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
mo feel of your pulsel Let me listen
to your breathingl 1 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 l must get you to the nearest
tavern" "Oh, no." says the man, IL
cant walk; let me stay here and die"
are not going to die. I am going to
put you on this beast, and l will hold
you on till get you to a 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 1t 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 fever, lift
that half grown boy, heavier than her
self, from couch to lounge. And so
this sympathetic Samaritan has un-
aided put the wounded man in the
saddle, and at slow pace the extempo-
rlZed ambulance Is moving to wards the
tavern. y ou feel better now, think"
says the Samaritan to the Hebrew.
Yes" he says, II do feel BETTER"
"l!alloo, you landlord! help mo carry
this man in and make him comfort
ojrrh hA 80
up with the Jew, giving him water
Whenever he felt thirsty and turning
his pillow whenever 1T 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 again and pay you for
all you do for him. Meanwhile here is
something to meet present expenses"
The 1.-TWO pence" he gave the landlord
sounds small, but it was as much rs ten
dollars here and now. considering what
1T 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
just having passed along the road
where the tragedy had happened, |
could, as plainly as | now see the near
est man to this platform, see that Bible
story re-enacted, and l said aloud to
our group under the tent: zone drop
or practical Christianity is worth more
than n templeful of ecclesi. sticism,
and that good Samaritan had more re-
ligion in five minutes than that minis.
ter and that Levite had In a lifetime,
and the most accurscd thing on earth
is national prejudice, and | bless God
that live in America, where GENTLE
and jew, Protestant 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 great
brotherhood, and that the question
which the lawyer flung at Christ, and
which brought forth this incident Of
the good Samaritan--'Whols Is my neigh
bor?' is bringing forth the answer,
My ncighhOr is the first man meet in
trouble and a wound close at hand
calls louder than temple seventeen
miles off, though 1t covers nineteen