St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-25

say, incline him, with glad
prOmptness which would leave no room
for other hands to bring this man to q
place of rest and care, of recovery anu
of health. So Judge the man who was
wounded would consider as he saw the
priest come along. Alas! this official
passed by on the other side. Soon after
there came Levite, a man who, along
with all his tribe, had been dedicated
to the service of God. And what is
that but the service of men?' Here,
then, was chance for the Leyite to
show the reality of his devotion and his
usefulness. He was interested: his Gu
riOsity at least was awakened. His heart
would not let him do as the priest had
done-go right along and take but a side
glance at his fellow man. So he came
to the man, looked upon him, very
likely was sorry for him, but that was
all. He at once continued his journey,
leaving the helpless man to any fate
which might befall him. Little did
these two men know that they at that
hour furnished material for graphic
picture, made by Christ, in which they
to the latest day would be held up to
the scOrn and contempt of men of every
faith and cline who should know the
disgrace of their deeds.
"Here is lesson for US in the COM
mon events of our daily work or play.
We, too, make history. If on all the
round earth there was a solitary being
held In contempt by priest or Levite,
he was Samaritan. To him they would
not speak, with him they would not
deal in the common affairs of everyday
life. In the Samaritan they saw the
embodiment of all evil, its incarnation
and sum total of depravity. When they
ScOrned Christ they asked, Say we not
well thou art Samaritan and hast a
devil" Now a man of the Samaritans
came'along. If any one had right to pass
this Jew, leaving him to die, if there
was man from whom he had no right
to look for help, here was that man.
How often it is in life that we receive
most where we expect least, and get
least from whom we have right to eX-
pect most. The Samaritan came to the
man who was robbed. wounded and
helpless. He tenderly dressed his
wounds. placed him upon his own beast
and took the distressed man to the inn,
and gave as much money to the keeper
of it as an ordinary working man could
earn in two days, and, leaving, he said,
If this man costs more, when | come
back again this way l will pay thee
Here is lesson for us all: To this
day it is too true thatthe priest of every
name, the Levite of every kind passes
the helpless by. 1t is sadder yet to know
that in thousands of instances the con-
dition even of the God-fearing poor is
one in which religion of any kind has
done little to help them. In New
Years sermon just published, by Rev.
L. w. Holmes. of Sheffield, one of the
best Informed men in England, and
which is before me, he draws a sad
of no ~ he -,
the fields, and also of the poor in the
great cities of England. He declares
that the poverty of Palestine in the
days of Christ was affiuence in COM
parlson with the poverty now in
England. In most great cities of the
new world we have dire poverty which
is not the result Of sin or extravaganza;
poverty of which the average well-to-do
man and woman does not know. They
simply pass on like the priest of old, or,
like the Levite, look on, leave it and give
no more attention to it. But the wound
Is not healed, the robbed are not
eXemplified, and the discomfort grows.
Shall we as Christian men enter our
closet. shut the door, and then
say our duty is done? Shall we,
because it is not pleasant to think
about the state of our poor brother
upon whom the burdens of life press so
very heavily, whose lot is often so
hopeless, leave him to be ministered to
by the Samaritan who dwells in the
land whether or not the chvrch knows
it. There lie a widespread opinion that
religlonists are not the friends of the
distressed and oppressed, / do not
need to stop now to ask with care what
are the causes which have led to its
formation, OF which hel p its acceptance.
Enough to say it is not groundleSs. r.
Never has man as man filled the
place he holds today; never has God
given to any age or people such chances
as we have now on this continent. We
have not to go to the men who have
been robbed. They come to us. Ours
it must be 10 prevent the sins of the
past and act wisely in the present. If
we do this, we shall lay the foundations
deep. both in ethics and in law, which
will abide as long as stable government
exists. LII this narrative we behold the
fact that the nObler emotions of the soul
are not the heritage Of any one caste or
class, OF religion or race. The Samaritan
was in all respects, in sympathy and
help, the superior of the priest and
Levite. In the aftertime when, In the
presence of the man who had been left
to die, the praise of priest and the nobil-
lty of the Leviteswere spoken to the dis
arrangement of the Samaritan, unless he
was more grateful than men usually are,
he would resent it and say: 'The high
est result of the best creed is useful life.
10 this at least one man in the Samari-
fans has attained 10 mol al mo