Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-05-04

N0O tuOu anu 10 LIKEWISE or W NO
is.my neighbor. y the above command
and question has confronted the hum
an family for nearly two thousand
years. and was illustrated by Christ
aud answered by lawyer, so we as
human beings will some day have to
answer the same question. OF give a
reason why we failed to perfo q
kneighborly act toward our brother.
This parable Of the Good Samaritan IL
Zone Of the most far reaching of any
parable in the Gospel by Luke. 1t
touches the essence and quintessence
of the christian religion. and shows to
us without doubt that we must care
for the body of our fellow creature if
we would prove our love for him.
This idea Of loving the soul. thing
lwe'rannot touch or see, and neglect
ling the body, is not taught in the BIZ
Bile. This man had fallen among
thieves who had stripped him and
wounded him, and left him half dead.
He. needed help and the first fellow.
who came along was a preacher. He
looked at-him and passed along and
did nothing. / imagine he was one
of these kind who preach salvation for
the soul and nothing for the body. No
believe religion or christianity is to
benefit a man while he lives. and
don't think the soul and body when
separated receives anything save being
preserved, which God declares He will
do
: The next fellow who came along was
d church member, a levite. Surely he
Will have compassion and try to- ale
viate his suffering brother, bnt aIasa
he passes on and does nothing. just
so in this our day and generation, our
land and country is full of professed
christians; and yet there nevet was a
time when poverty and misery of all
kinds was more prevalent than at this
very hour, and it seems as if the good
Samaritan, with his oil and bandages,
will never come along, Tie preachers
see and know the condition Of the pow
erty stricken human beings. and they
know, IL they have studied Gods Word.
as they should have done, the cause,
and they know the remedy, for God
never made charge that be didn't
Iipoint out a. remedy. want to be
liplain. This certain man Jesus refers
to was representative character, and
lprobably a wage worker hunting for a
L job, but like millions Of other wage
workers he barely got enough to feed
him, let alone clothe him, and SO he
became naked, and his heart was al
most broken, and he was in the man
liner half dead with no one to cheer and
scomfort, but be didn't do like some in
this our day become SO respondent ov-
en- the loss of his job that be took his
own life. No, he didn' do that But
after while Sa mAritan came along
who, seeing his condition, had COM
passion on Rim. Now. / don't know
whether this Samaritan is a figure of
Socialism, or not, but one thing is GER
tain. he does not represent the priest
nor the church, for the preacher and
the church had chance to help the
fellow and didn't do iS. bat there
arose q character that did do it,. and
r believe from the teachings Of Jesus
and the Apostles, that labor is what
the wounded man represented individ
ually and collectively, and st. james
declares that they have been defraud-
ed in their hire and the rich men are
the ones that did it. There is going
to come into existence power strong
enough to cause these rich men to
weep and howl for the misery they
have caused, aud If Israel had to pay a
penalty Of four hundred years in bond
age for selling Joseph, their brother,
into slavery / do not know what kind
of restitution the rich man will have
to make for expressing the poor along
down the ages. II there was no
awakening, no heieafter, we might
rest content, but there is coming a
time of restitution, as sure as there is
a God, and the men who have grown
rich off Of the labor Of others will
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