The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-02-18
The Good Samaritan

n ~ NOoSA OCtl1ACVl IUCtll
Mr.. Moody, at one Of his recent meet.
ings In New York, read the story oi
The Good Samaritan" and then
said
It's good thing to take parable
like this and look it straight in the
lace: Who is our neighbor | dom:
thlnk we need anyone to explain that
Us pretty plain, but some of us have
been pretty long finding it out, and
most of us haven't found out yet.
Many man has como to New York
and been shipwreckcd and fallen
amongst thieves. Sometimes they
have killed him as they did that
gentleman from Colorado the other
day, but more often they have only
wounded him. | regret to say that
who will sec man in distress and won't
help him because he doesn't belong to
their parish. Somo ministers are the
same way.
The trouble with such is that their
religion is all up in their head; it never
struck into their hearts at all. They
have the big head and the little heart.
Lots CT men are head heavy. They'd
topp e over backwards if they stood up
loo SIfalBnt.
In the parable, the first man that
came along was tho priest. He was
probably on his way to hold some SCR.
vice at Che Temple When he saw the
wounded man he probably said: "Tbat
man is badly hurt, but | can't stop to
: attend to him for he is noe in nv
: parish. If he were I'd certainly come
to him as soon as l had seen the com.
mittee about it," And he passed on
| pity these men who are always wait
ing for committee to appoint them.
Some years ago, there was a man in
this town who lived near tho North
$ River, and in the afternoon Of a cold
: winters day he heard man callinu
I for help who had fallen through the
= ice. He sat in his house and heard
n the mar cry over and over again, and
dtd nothing to help him, but let him
n orown. The next day the people learn.
ca ABOUT IL and they drove that cruel
hcartlcss man out Of town.
- mat was right, wasn't it?
Ch, 1T w2S? Then look at yourselves
ana see what you are doing. Are you
l. not doing worse than he did in LETTING
:. that fellow drown? All around you ir
Q New York cries for help are bcine
: heard, and you are passing by on tht
l. other side.
You say when you sec man in dis
It trcss, "Oh, how pity him."
Is | wouldn't give the snap OF my finge
@ for the pity that does not help him f
n get up again.
T. The next one that came along tn.
% road was the Levite. He was sort o
J. church warden, a steward. The wound
ed man lay about one hundred yard
away when the Levite saw him. Fl
had another turn of mind He said
| nj hnf n,5t %nlr
g simple little journey in broad dayligh
| without being m0lested by robbers
}, When [ get back to the city I'll Sc
It PLATE and have an act passed by tn
t Legislature to appoint a committee tt
II guard the roads, and very likely m
1T M anne will be put at tho head of it. IT.
y great shame" And he passed on.
a There's a Christianity Of works a
l. well as OF words. Words are cheap. W.
W can got carloads of fine sermons, bu
m what we want is sermons with hand:
10 ahd feet on them. Enough beautifu
le sermons arc preached to convert tn,
ID whole city.
- The next person that came along wa
a the Samaritan. | can see his checrfu
"a smiling face as he stopped to help th,
" suffering man and batho his wound
v ARD rrnr oil in them. Some carry OF
y 20 pour in the wounds OF those the,
q meet. a good many moro carry vine
:r gar and they always give you vinegar
lr Don't be like them.
. That JcW was sick and wounded
q and that good Samaritan put him or
+. his beast and went afOOt himself. Hi
q took him to an inn. He fed dohim, ant
:. 'eit money to pay for his board until ht
h returned.
70 Don't ask mo the creed of that Sama
" rltap. | don't know his creed. Some
!" people arc so particular about crceds
n ! tell you that any creed that vii
prompt you to put your arm under an
b: 9th tr man aud help him up to God is 6
| grand creed.
c Tho Jews hated this Samaritaps
Don't condemn them. Lots of us arc
d just as bad ourselves. I've sat in q car
Z and seen an Irish woman pull hcr
}. skirts away from colored woman who
s sat beside her, and few minutes
latcr I've seen the colored woman pull
;, her skirts away from Chinaman.
i Why, there arc men in this city who
, will tell you that o Chinaman hasn't
d any soul.
Q A few years ago [ was in San Fran.
@ cisco, passing along the street, when 7
z saw hOodlum grab Chnaman nv
4 the queue and pull him over backward
and kick him and beat him horribly,
L interfered, and the hoodum looked
, at me. and said: What, you take the
part or Chinaman. q miserable dop .,
3 and he pulled knife on mo, an I
: cam near losing my life.
u III ~o mad moro good Samaritans
there would be an end to the cry OF