The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-02-29

WSS woes of warning re
ported in 10: l2-16.
Note the threefod
work or The mission of the seventy. as be-
low. Trace on the map the route of Jesus
to Jerusalem, and note the various events
mat took place. Time-November. A. d.
y. Place.-Somewhere in Perra, beyond
Jordan. Though possibly near Jerusalem.
Route.-When Jesus left Gailec the in
dlcauons are that he went along the Dor
der between Galilee and Samar;a to the
Jordan, crossed the river into Perca,
thence southerly to the fords of Jericho.
to Jericho, and thence to Bethany. See
Luke 3: 81, 52 10: So
me 1ull lesson for to-day is as follows:
% And. behold.,A certain lawyer stood
up, and tempted him. saying. Master,
what shall do to inherit eternal life?
70 He said unto him, What is written
IN the law? how readest thou?
~ And he answering said. Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.
ana with all thy soul, and with all thy
strength, and with all thy mind; and thy
neighbor as myself
~ And he said unto him. Thou hast
answered right: this do, and thou shalt
live.
~ But he willing to justify himself,
sa'd unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
5o And Jesus answering said, A GER
tain man went down from Jerusalem to
Jericho. and fell among thieves, which
stripped him of his rament, and wounded
him. and departed leaving him half dead.
81 And by chance there came down a
certain priest that way; and when he saw
MIN, he passed by on the other side
81 And likewise Levite, when he was
at the place, came and looked on him,
ana passed by on the other side.
80 But certain Samaritan. as he jour
.leyed, came where lie was; and when he
saw him, he had compassion on him.
a. And went to him, and bound up his
wounds, pouring in oil and wine. and set
nm on his own beast, and brought him to
an inn, and took care of him.
30 And on the morrow when he de-
parted, he took out two pence, and gave
them to the host, and said unto him, Take
care Of him: and whatsoever thou spend
est more, when | come again, l will repay
thee.
80. Which now of these three, thinkest
thou, was neghbor unto him that fell
among the thieves?
81. And he said, He that Showed mercy
on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Co.,
and do thou likewise
Some explanations to to-day's lesson are
as follows:
VS.. 29371. 90. but he, willing (resolved)
to justify himself" to make himself ap-
pear right, both to his own conscience and
to Jesus. Said unto Jesus, and who is my
neighbour" For the degree in which he had
kept the law of love would depend on the
answer to this question. If his neighbor
meant his personal friends. Jew, spelt
large" he may have kept the law in some
measure. or. at least, had come much
nearer it than if 'neghbor' included a
wider circle. Doubtless this was a dis
puted question among the Jews.
60 "a certain man went twas going)
down from Jerusalem to Jericho" The
road. or path-for there was no such road
as is familiar to us-from Jerusalem went
down literally, to Jericho, the descent in
less than twenty miles being about $500
feet.
Fell among thieves" robbers, brigands.
On this very road an English barOnet,-
Sir Frederic Henniker.-was stripped
and murdered by Arab robbers in 1920.
He was probably thinking of the parable
of the Samaritan when the assassin's
stroke laid him low" Porters Palestine,
l.1;s-Cambridge Bible.
49, But certain Samaritan" The
Samaritans were half heather, mixed
Pentateuch only as their bible, erroneous
in some points of doctrine, and greatly
despsed by the priests and Levites. 1.-The
h,, ,,,.th bo
itans." Note in this connection. the noble
spirit which Christ showed in this picture
of Samaritan, for it was but a short
time before this that he had himself been
rejected by Samaritans in such an un-
gracious way that the disciples wished to
invoke fire from heaven upon them duke
8: 5l56). Moreover it required great moral
courage to thus eXalt a Samaritan before
Jews Had compassion on him." a COM
passion so strong that it overcame selfish
ness and all sense of fear.
g. Bound up his wounds, pouring in
oil and wine" The wine was poured in
to cleanse the wound, and the oil to as
suage the smart. They We're highly es-
teemed remedies. ''Set him on his own
beast" His care Of the wounded man
must have consumed considerable time
but this was the greatest magnanimity,
and much more than common kindness re-
quired. Real love does not ask how little,
but how much it may dO.-JacObus ITO
an inn" more like our hotel than the COM
mon khan. And took care of him." gave
him his personal attention, which is more
costly and more blessed than all our
money.
3d. And on the morrow he took
out two pence" (denariD: from his girdle.
Shilling is a more exact translation of
"danarus" than penny. 1t IS worth about
seventeen cents. But two such pence
would be equivalent to three dollars in our
day. Whatsoever thou spendest more"
etc. He did all he could, consistently with
his other duties.
g. (Which now Of these three . .
was provedD neghbor unto him" Tho
Lords question has been admirably put
best what thou desirest to knOw?"-Sadler
81. Go, ard do thou likewise" That
is your question is answered by yourself:
He to whom you ought thus to show
mercy in order to become his neighbor il:
your neighbOr.
The Modern Good Samaritan. Both al
individuals and as a nation, we are to
treat the poor, the despised, the outcast.
the degraded as our neighbors, and Civ,
them all possible aid, and not pass then
by or the other side.