The Red Cloud chief., 1890-10-31

scene OF suffering, gets on the beast And
steps down and looks into the face ol
the wounded man and says: This poos
fellow does not belong to my nation.
and ancestors worshiped in d fer.
emit places. but he IL . man. and that
makes ~ brothere God pity him. -
dol" And he gets down on his knees
and begins to examine his wounds, and
straighten out his limbs TO see IL any Of
his bones are broken. and says: my
dear fellow, cheer up you need have no
more care about yourself, for ! nm going
TO take car Of you Let me feel Of your
pulsed Let me listen 10 your breathing!
! have in these bottles two liquids that
will help you. The q 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" 20. no." says the
man; II can't walk; let me stay here
and die" "Nonsense." says the Sa-
marian. "You are not going to die.
am going to put you on this beast and
will hold you on till I get you to place
where you , have . soft mattress and
an easy pillow"
Now tho Samaritan has got the wound
ed man on bis 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, al you
have e q 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, unaided, put the
wounded man in tho saddle. and at slow
pace the extcmpOr;zed ambulance is
moving toward the tavern. ''You feel
better now, I think" says the Samaritan
to the Hebrew. EYES," he says, Il do
feel better" "Halloo! you. landlord!
help me carry this man in and make
him comfortable" That night the
Samaritan sat up with tho 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 I am obliged to go.
Take good care Of this man and I will
DO 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 as
SO here and now considering what it
would there and then buy Of food and
lodging.
As on that Decem Der noon we sat I'M
der the shadow Of the Tavern where this
sceneo 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 I'M
der the tent: One drop of practical
Christianity is worth more than .
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 I bless God that l live in
America where Gentle and Jew, Prot
estant and Catholic can live together
without quarrel. and where. in the great
National crucible, tho differences of sect
and tribe and people arc 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
s. my neighbOr is the first man
I meet in trouble" and o wound close
at hand calls louder than q temple sew
enteen miles of, though it covers nine
teen acres.
I 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
various themes, I asked Mr.. Gladstone
II he did not think hat many who were
under the shadow of false religions
might not nevertheless be 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 hero 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 q SOL
der with q broken leg who was not
strong enough to 60 along with US and
We did not daro to leave him to be taken
e of by savages. but VIC found we
were compelled to leave him and We
went into tho house Of . woman who
was said to be q very kind woman.
though of the race of savages. and wc
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
would ordinarily DO offered. hoping
by the excess of pay to cur
for him great kindness The woman
replied: II will not take care Of him
for the money you offer. I do not
want your money. But leave him here,
and I 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 . race Of savagcs that was
pure religiOn?" And I answered: Il
do; l do" May God multiply all the
world over the number Of good Samari-
tans!
In Philadelphia a young oma was
dying. She was a 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 . haunt Of iniquity near
by. Who would 60 to tell her of the
Christ of Mary Magdalcn? This one re
fused, saying: Il dare not 60 there"
A Christian woman, her white locks
typical of her purity of soul. said: II
will go and I will 60 now" She went
and sat down BY the dying girl and to d
Of the Christ who came to seek and save
that which was lost First to the for.
lorn n came the tears Of repentance,
and then the smile as though she had
begun to hope for pardon Of Him who
came to ave to the uttermost Then,
just before she breathed her last she
said to the angel of mercy bending over
her pillow: would you kiss mel" Il
will" said the Christian woman. "a h