The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-25
ONE OF LIES LESSONS.
Rev. william A. QunyIe breaches to
q Crowded Church.

The Rev. w. A. Quayle, pastor of Me-
ridian-street Church, preached to a large
congregation last night from the text "A
certain man went down from Jerusalem to
Jericho and fell among thieves, which
stripped him of his raiment and wounded
him. And by chance there came down a
certain priest that way, and when he saw
him he passed by on the other side. And
likewise a Levite. ~etc.'-Luke, X. 1898.
He said in part: These parts of verses
which l have just read to you make a para
BILE of disappointments. Everybody in the
parable ~disappoints US. This man in the
story goes on a journey and we don't know
his name. He goes down hill from Jerusa-
lem to Jericho and he falls into trouble.
The folks he expected TO help him didn't
and those he did not expect TO help him did.
Isn't that a curious story?
But that story is true with the most of
us who live in cities. The most of the folks
we know here We don't know their names.
We ride on the cars with them, ak with
them, but it never occurs to us to ask them
their names and IL never occurs to them to
tell us. Their names might as well be
Smith or Jones. Names are ANONYMOUS
anyhow. They don't amount to much i'm
the long run. If you inherit a good name
Il liz hCCD II tAtdH. III YOU lH0OIll a DAD
name try and make ii holy. What are the
odds about a name anyhow? We don't
care what a mans patronymic is; we are
not interested in his native city. All that
VIZ want to know is that he is a traveller
who has started on a journey and has met
with misfortune; all that We want TO know
Is that he is our brother and is entitled to
our help and sympathy. We say the trav-
eler who has met with misfortune should
be more pr0vident. Like enough. We say
he should have been more careful. Like
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after the misfortune has befallen our
brother. 1t is easy enough to say that a
man ought not TO fall into trouble. but he
does. Even so with the man in the para
BILE. He meets with grieVous peril and he
lays there in his agony awaiting the succor
that he knows must soon come to him. BY
and by he hears the steps Of the priest
coming from afar. He listens and his heart
grows light. He cries for water; he cries
for help. and the priest, having reached his
side, stands and looks at his wounds and
then, gathering UP the folds of his gown,
passes the wounded by on the other side
of the road. That priest should have sue
cOred his fallen brother, and there is no
one here tina will deny IL. Who robbed
half a dozen places? Sin did. Who left
him there TO die? Sin did. Sin is demoniacal
and Ubiquitous from a TO z. The priest
comes and looks at the man and passes him
by. The priest TO all intents and purposes
represents the preacher. / am a preacher
myself and / deem IL my duty 10 allow no
man TO suffer whom / can help. The min
lister OF God Is an ambassador of Jesus. and
as He In His loving mercy passes no man
by so must We, his servants. do by our fell
ow-men. Shame on the priest that passed
right 10 expect much OF the ministers OF
Christ, and the wicked priest In the para
bic therefore Is ? disappointment TO us.
but again the unfortunate traveller
hears a step. This time IL IS the Levite
The traveller is joyous for he has seen the
: Leyite In the temple and believes in ais