The Opelousas courier., 1891-02-07

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40 Ieei better" aHalloo, you landlord helm
me carry this man in and make him COM
Portable. That night the Samaritan sat M,
W1Gn the Jew, giving him water whenever
ne Ieit thirsty and turning his pillow when
ever It got hot, and in the morning before
tne samaritan started on his journey he
salo, Landlord, nov | am obliged to go.
Take good care of this man, and I win be
along here soon again and pay you for all
you 40 Tor him. Meanwhile here is some
thing to meet present expenses.n The sstwo
pence" ne gave the landlord sounds small
VI 1t was as much as ten dollars here and
now. considering what it would there and
then buy OF food and lodging.
AS on that December noon we sat under
tne shadow OF the tavern where this scene of
mercy had occurred, and just having passed
along the road where the tragedy had hap
pened, l could, as plainly as I now see the
nearest man to this platform, see that Bible
story re-enacted, N I said aloud to our
group, under the tent: lone drop OF prac-
tlcal Christianity is worth more than a tenn
piefui or ecclesiasticism, and that good Sa-
marian had more religion in Eve minutes
than that minister and that Lev1te had in a
lifetime, n the most aecursed thing on
earth Is national prejudice, and / bless God
that L live in America, where Gentle and
jew, Protestant and Catholic can live to-
gether without quarrel, and where i'm 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 incident Of the good Sa-
maritan-sWho is my neighbour lie bringing
forth the answer, My neighbor Ia tha first
man / meet in trouble, and q wound close at
hand calls louder than a temple seventeen
miles on, though it covered nineteen acres.n
saw In London the vast procession which
one day last January moved to St, Paurs
Cathedral at the burial of that Christian
hero Lord Napier. The day after at Hawar-
den, In conversation on various themes, I
asked Mr.. Gladstone If he did not think that
many b were under the shadow of false
religions might not nevertheless be at heart
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
Hawarden, and walking in this park where
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 a soldier with a broken leg
who was not strong enough to 90 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 a woman who was
said to be- very kind woman, though of the
race Of savages, and we said, Here is
a sick man. and If Won Will take care
of him till he gets well we viii nav
You very largely and then we offered
her Ave times that which wn,1Id ordi-
narily be offered, hoping by the excess of
pay to secure for him great kindness. The
woman replied; 81 viii not take care of him
for the money you offer. I do not want your
monev Buf lsave him here and 7 will faka
care II him FOR the sake If tha Iova IF
God sin Mr.. GIadstone turned to me- and
s.;5 an, Tairoara don,t 10. thtnL tha4
fhos,oh she halongad. tn . raca Of savaoas that
rgss 1s1re religionS And I answered. aIdo.
I do,S Nav God multiply ali the world over
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r. ph;IsdasnS;s ] 1annr xraman uas dy;,r
She vssa wrecE S,1nEen into tba dsntSs
- - aitr rhara a ~ lawsr danth Sor
has II raanI Wnr5 cana to tha nssdnigbt
Mission that she yyas Vino in . ba,,nt If
;nia1itv near nv who uos,fd oo to fall her
~ the christ IL Mary MaedalenP This one
ref,,sad and that one rafnsaI saving II
dsra not 90 thersn a Christ;sn uoman
Sa a urh;ta 7noLs trn;e.l ~ ba- r,,r;+v ~ so,l'
said Il Will go, q l VIII go now. q
Went ana saL down ny the dying girA and Lold
OF Christ who anne 20 seek save That
winch was lost- FIRST 10 tne Icrtofn o
came the tears OF repentance Q
then the sfnile, as tnougn sne Lao
begun 10 hope Tor the pardon Oh INN
VINO came 70 save 70 the ustermosG. linen
Just before sne Dreamed nef lasS sns salo 20
tne angel o. mercy penang over nee Paiors
w ou!d you KISS me-! VIII, said NE
Chr1stian woman as sne puS upon nef cnes1
uae iast saiu6aIion before, N sne leavoniy
WoFid, l tlihK. uoa gaVS nee ens Wea y.
K 49, l1 Gao SS SamaEitans alor,g ausrv straet
agd sionr avarr road as well 81 this one On