The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-08-26

icho was, and is notorious because of
the high handed brigandage that
was practiced on the i'll fated way
farer who journeyed between the
two cities. The distance is hundred
and fifty stadia eighteen miles,
thru desolate and rocky region.
st. Jerome gives us some idea Of the
dangers Of the Jericho road in his
statement that a particular portion
of the road was called the red and
bloody way, so much blood had there
been shed by robbers. The traveller
along that rock bound stretch of
desolation must needs be always
keenly alert and on guard. lest he
meet fate as bad or worse than
Messiah pictures in parable as hav-
ing befallen "a certain man."
The question of "A certain law
yer" and Messiah's answer by the
parable of the Good Samaritan"
is found in the Gospel of Luke, chap.
10 verses 25-27. Jerusalem
was higher than Jericho, not
only in altitude, but in the moral
and spiritual sense as we'll.
Jerusalem was the Holy City,"
Jericho was under a curse, cpf j osh-
ua 6:26. We think of the first AS Je-
rusalem the golden" but of the latter
as a cesspool of moral corruption.
If we were to treat this article
theologically we might say with
Dean French, that this particular
traveller in the parable was persona
fed human nature. He has left
Jerusalem, the heavenly city. { birth
and is travelling the Jericho road
(life), is beset by robbers, (temp-
tation). Comes then the priest
and the Levite (the law and the
sacriices) both alike were power
less to help. We might go farther
and say with Chrysostom, that the
wine (see parable) is the blood of
the Passion, the oil, the amounting
of the Holy Spirit. Augustine says:
the binding up of the wounds is
the stanching of the ever flowing
fountain of evil in the heart of man. %
and so on AID .LIBITUM AID INFINTIUM
But we will not treat this subject
from theological standpoint.
This is practical age, and what we
need today is not so much visionary
day dreamers, presenting vague and
abstract theories, as it is we'll deGn-
ed practically. So then in this
treatise we desire to crack the para
bolic nut, dispense with the shell of
theologium and assimilate the
kernel of practical truth.
We will assume the Jericho
road' is the span of human life.
We learn by both precept and ex-
ample that the journey of life is
tortuous and fraught with many
dangers. Man is born unto trou-
ble," says one. Another says: Life
is continued tragedy; the entrance
from oblivion into life is announ ced
by an infant wall of pain; the years
of our life are spent in amore or less
poignant torture of heart aches and
sorrow. and when at last the curtain
of time is drawn across the thresh-
old of eternity, we take our leave
of this world amid the groans Of
death.
Hear then, modern version of
the parable of the Good Samara-
TAM" Behold, certain man al
low this term to embrace mankind
went down from Jerusalem. Allow
Jerusalem the golden to typify the
purity and innocence of early child
hood. And fell among thieves"
Hear them chortle in fendish glee
as innocent boyhood and virtuous
girlhood essay their journey of life.
Here the thief lust, using the blud-
geon passion, fares forth and poun-
ces upon the unsuspecting victim.
Another thief--greedy covetous-
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