Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

whose name he did not know, nor where he lived, nor whether he be- lieved in the Pentateuch, or was only "a dog of an agnosttc" Here was a great need, and the Samaritan greatly met it-with oil, wine, bandages and good care, in the place of close ques- tioning or hollow words of sympa thy. Need ought to make of us a neighbor anywhere and everywhere in the wide world when it comes in our way
 Before taking a look at a few of our neighbors, note Ore significant fact inthis narrative. Mere emotion al benevolence has no part there. Some people can weep over suffering and still do nothing. If the Samari- tan had sat down and shed tears of sympathy and offered fervent pray CT, and exercised a tender hope that providence would somehow intercede, we never should have heard of him as Christ's idea of neighbor. 'eTwo pence" may sometimes be worth more than a gallon of tear drops or a ton of good wishes. Christ loved in the Samaritan way, and served humanity at infinite cost to himself
 As charity-that IS, 1ove-"begins at lhome," it may not be necessary to go even to the next house to find our | neighbor. The patient, toiling, self
 sacrificing, housekeeping wife may be the one to whom we should show l more neighborliness. Woman is often the hardest work ed animal on earth, and with small | help or sympathy in return. She is
 commonly the house prisoner, chain l ed to her constant toil, for woman s work is never done" When the Lord created woman he invented a 1 perpetual motion" machine. Ere i quently her days work is all of to-
 day and part of tomorrow. Often the mothers duty of caring for six
 or seven little ones, apart from other | domestic burdens, is enough to wear away two bodies, two hearts and two 1 sets of nerves. The wife and moth CT must be good Samaritan to the en- l tire family, father ard all the chil- dren But who shall be good Samar-
 itan to her? It were better twice over
 for some mothers and wives to be the man that fell among thieves on l the Jericho road than to be in their
 own peculiar places. Tn their moth
 erhood and wear of service they sometimes get so little sweetness and
 sympathy from the head of the 1 household that 1t must often seem to | them as if the husband had gone
 wholly out of the business of keeping any stock of heart on hand
 i And I do not here refer to the
 brutes who turn their home by drunk en violence into a hell, but to that large and growing class who have no evening hours to devote to delicate social attentions to her who makes
 their home; but give to clubs and other organizations the time belong i ing to fireside courtesies and love.
 Must the husband always find after supper some other company better than the family, some other place
 more attractive than the home, and some other excitement more entranc- ing than the o1d-time. pleasure when
 he acted the part Of a lover? The
 whole span of life should be a con- stant sacred courtship. No one of the societies on earth should be of equa1 value with the divine society iDI
 which he was initiated by marri( -
 Is he not fEsu6 ->and rer5,aaSSee1 5aSee1, ,p7omised r4 the most solemn foriF r
 pledge to love, honor and cherish J wife, but who nightly runs away from the quiet pleasures of home to find entertainment in some club of men? Is the pursuit of his own selfish grat-
 ifieaticm the love he ought to show to this best of all neighbors, to con- vert the wife into mere house dog to keep the premises. mere drudge to wear out her life in ''the daily task, the common round' of treadmill household duties? Many seem to think they can act as they choose be- cause it is nobody but the wife, where as that nobody ought to be to them the greatest somebody a man can ever know on earth. To such a bless ed neighbor he should be the best of good Samaritans.
 There is the unhappily common race prejudice. Perhaps our neighbor may be an Indian, Chinaman or Italian. Take, for instance, the poor Jew. He has been on the Jericho road for over 1,S00 years. In nearly every country under heaven the Jews have been the victims of unjust prej- udice and malicious persecution. Yet
 were they the people chosen of God for the grandest purposes in racial history. The greatest law giver ever known, Moses, was Jew. The great est poet that ever sung, David, was a Jew. Through the apostles, all Jews, the world has been infinitely blessed. The Savior of men was himself Jew, yet in heaven he made the whole human family his neighbor, and came along the worlds Jericho road to help and to save both Jew and Gentle, bond and free. Even as the king of the Jews neighbored all mankind, should we likewise nedghbor the peo- pie of the king. Why should the Gentile despise the Jew or the Jew hate the Christian? Let each find in the other his Samaritan friend.
 The nearest neighpor for some of