Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-20
GOOD SAMARITAN.


p eht pldceS, out he is man, and that
makes us brothers. God pity him, rs !
do. And he gets down on his knees
ana begins to examine his wounds, and
Straighten out his limbs to see If any of
ms bones are broken, and says: my
dear fellow, cheer up, you need have
no more care about yourself,
Tor am going to take care
OF you. Let me feel of your pulse! 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 this will stimulate
you. Now | must get you to the near
est tavern" ''Oh, no." says the man,
Il 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 l get you to place where you can
have soft mattress and an easy pill
low"
Now the Samaritan has got the
wounded man on his feet, aud with
much Juggling and lifting, puts him on
the beast, for it is astonishing how
strong the spirit of kindness will make
one, rs you have seen mother after
three weeks of SleepleSS watching of her
boy, down with scarlet fever, lift that
| half-grown boy, heavier than herself,
from couch 10 lounge. And so this sym
pathetic Samaritan has, unaided, put
the wounded man in the saddle. and at
slow pace the eXtemporiZed ambulance
] d.. ri ha
| feel better now, | think" says
the Samaritan 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 it got hot, and in the
morning before the Samaritan started
on his journey, he ID: Landlord, now
am obliged to 90. 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 il was rs much as ten dollars
here and now, considering what it would
there and then buy of food and lodging.
4 MODERN INSTANCE.
In Philadelphia Il young woman was
dying. She was a wreck. Sanken into
the depths of depravity there was no
/ lower depth for her TO reach. Word
came 10 the midnight mission that she
was dying in 4 haunt of iniquity near
10y. Who would 90 to tell her of the
Christ of Mary Magdalen ? This one
refused. and that one refused, saying,
Il dare not 20 there" A Christian
woman, her white locks typical of her
soul. said Il will 90 and | will 90 now
She went and sat down by the dying
girl and told of the Christ who came to
seek and save that which was lest. First
TO the forlOrn one came the tears Of re-
pantauce. and then the smiles rs though
She had begun to hope for the pardon
| of Him who came 10 save TO the utter
most. Then, just before she breathed
| her last. she said TO the angel Of mercy
bending over her pillow: Would you
/ kiss me?" Il will said the Christian
woman, as she put upon her cheek the
| last salutation before in the heavenly
world, think, God gave her the wei
coming kiss. That was religion, Yes,
| that was religion. Good SamaritanS
along every street, and along every road,
as well as this one on the road TO
Jericho.
JERICHO.
But look. Look what at four o'clock
/ in the afternoon bursts upon our vision
the plain of Jericho and the valley OF
Jordan and the Dead Sea. We have
leone to a place where the horses not
So much walk as slid upon their
Launches, and we all diSmount, for the
steep descent is simply terrific, though
/ a princesS of Wallachia, who fell here
/ and was dangerously injured, after re-
covery, spent large amount OF money
i'm irving to make the road paSSable.
Down and down, till we saw
the white tents pitched for us
Ibv our mlleteerS oamid the ruins
of ancient Jericho, which fell ut the
sound of poor music played on ram 5
horn" that ancient instrument which
taken from the head of the leader of the
flock of sheep, is perforated and prepar-
ed TO be fingered by the musical per-
former, and blown upon when pressed
To the lips. As il another sermon, |
have fully described that scene, will
Ionly say that every day for seven days
the musicians of religion went round
the city of Jericho blowing upon those
rams horns, and on the seventh day,
without the roll OF Il war-chariOt, or the
stroke of a catapult, or the swing of a
Iballista, crash. crash. crash went the
walls OF that magnificent capital.
On the evening Of December the 9th,
we walked amid the brick and mortar
OF that shattered city, and said to my
self: All this done by poor music blest
of God, FOR IL was not harp or a flute,
or a clapping cymbai, or an organ
PLAYED. at the sound of which the city
surrendered TO destruction, but rude
instrument making rude music blest OF
God. TO the demolition of that wicked
place which had for centuries deiied
the Almighty. And l said, if all this
was by the blessing of God on
pcor music, what mightier things
could be done by the bless
ing OF God on good music, skillful
music. Gospel music. If all the good
that has already been done by music
were Subtracted from the world, be-
- Ilieve three-fourthS OF its religion would
be gone. The lullabyS of mothers which
keep sounding on, though the lips that
sang them forty years ago became ashes,
2 the Old hymns in log cabin churches and
country meeting house, and psalms IN
Rouse's version in Scotch kinks, the an
them i'm English cathedrals, the roll OF
: organs that will never let Handel, OF
HAYDN. or Beethoven die, the thrum oil
harms. the sweep of the bow across bass
viols. the song OF Sabbath schools storm
ing the heavens, the dOXology CT grea'
S asSemblages-why, thousand Jericho'
; of sin have by them all been brought
! down.
ALL POMP VANISHED.
The region round about the city walls
seemed To me white with cotton such as
? Thenius describes as once growing
81 there. and sweet with sugar cane, and
luscious with orange and figs and p0me-
cranates. and redolent with such iiora-
and can only grow where tropical sun
, kisses the earth. And the hour came
back to me when in the midst OF all
that Splendor HerOd died, commanding
his sister Salome Immediately after his
death TO secure the assassination oil all
the chief Jews whom he had brought up
to the city, and shut up in a circus for
: that purpose, and the news came TO the
audience in the theatre as some one