Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-29

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Text: When he saw him. he passed
by on the other side.
ST. Luke, <. 81.
The most glorious OF all parallels this!
a solitary act that breathes to our
ldulled senses the immortal fragrance Of
pure unselhshnsss! How the sparkling
radiance of the changeless glimmer Of
that baacon-light to Heaven scintillates
Its eternal ray across our earthly path!4
What a deeply responsive echo the I'M
dying lesson awakens in your heart and
mine!
Did you ever mark how wonderfully
amid all the hardness and selfishness
and GOODNESS Of the world this one little
story stands boldly out. How amid all
the controversies and dissensions that
have blurred the horizon of centuries
OF Christianity this one gentle deed of
stranger carries our gaze away from it
all straight az thru telescope to the
eternal mysteries, OF far-away world
whose watchword is love, whose essence
4 is love, whose God Is love-
\ Mnre rnfonf thu n he 80 eti
the fathers, more stirring than the
tones Of all the centuries wit and Wis
dom. the Good Samaritan has exerted
Ian influence which is simply marvellous,
Ian influence which has drawn countless
thousands within the sheltering care OF
1.-THE Everlasting Arms, and crowned
them with halos OF divinely-reflected
enulgence.
Now what is 1t about the Good sa-
maritan that claims our attention and
commands our admiration and emula-
ton?
There is the scene before you: A poor
traveller injured by the wayside, bruised
land beaten, helpless, left there to die
alone. Over the hillside he came, per-
haps humming some jaunty air in the
sIexuberance OF a bright spring morning
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an instant 1t is changed; with blows and
5Icries he is set upon. robbed. wounded
land left half dead in the road
But it is not 80 bad as 1t may seem.
He still lives and the road is one much
Ifrequented. Some friendly hand will
soon be along to help him. See, even
now, down the road comes man like
himself; aye. more, Jew, of his own
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will find friend in his need.
4 But most cruel of all. harder to bear
1 than the blows and the wounds the
priest is not friend; for when he saw
him he passed by on the other side.
Hope must surely have died out in the
i heart Of the wounded man at this ex-
A Inhibition Of hypocrisy. But again anoth-
Ter one is coming-this time not a priest,
but Levite. Perhaps the first was
busy. in great hurry TO attend to some
f|duty at the temple. Perhaps he could
not stop, but thought to send back
sI:help. But this one, more humble, may
have a place in his heart and time to
help the needy
But, alas! hope is again blasted! The
4 Levite. when he was at the place, came
and looked and passed by on the other
sI.side!
j oh, the heartlessness Of it! you cry.
4 Aye, and the world is full of such cases,
There is many poor wreck behind bars
+ land stone who might have been saved
& II some one had not passed by on the
Eother side. There is many poor
!. wretch who has sought the suicides
grave or suffered the hangman's rope
4 who might have been spared if some
A one had not passed by on the other side,
There is many poor child who today is
A finding drunkard's grave who may yet
a be saved il some do not pass by on the
4 other side. There is many an one who
i will 60 without crust of bread today
who could be spared that sufp firing If all
do not pass by onsthe other side. There
lis many IA soul which today or tomor-
4 ROW will be called to meet its Maker
8 without one word of prayer or prepara-
q ton IL men and women continue to pass
!. by on the other side.
II There are undoubtedly evils in the
world with which we can not success
q fully cope There are men who will be
4 devils in spite of you. There are men
I. who will deliberately throw away their
bodies and their immortal souls for all
!. you can say or do. But for every one
such case believe there are ten where
4 la life may be saved. if only you do not
4 oil pass by on the other side.
And this is the lesson OF the parable.
lit was not that the priest and the Lee
wife had done anything wicked. notathat
4 they had actually committed crime
but what was far worse even than a
4 crime, they had left undone what they
Il should have done Our sins of omission
1Iare far greater and far more than our
sins OF commission. We leave undone
A the right far oftener than we do the
wrong. 1t was the law that Numbered
l"Thou shalt not" that declared what we
must not do. 1t is the gospel that de-
lmands Thou shalt that teaches US
that we must do. The one is the mega
Tive side of religion. the cold Pharisaic
4 side of religion. The other is the posi-
tive, the warm. sweet. loving, Christ
like side. that is up and doing, doing
4 always doing for others.
4 Oh, this positive principle is more
needed in the world today than ever Its
lack has been the loadstone which has
dragged the world down from the bene-
i diction OF Gods smile to the deceitful
Ileer Of the incarnate fend. Trace it
.Isfrom the very beginning. Our first par
Tents strove as to which had committed