Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-10-04

man III neeQ, the man IN neeQ OF WnaL
I have to give, and whose need arises
and is made known to me at time
when [ am able to give it. If this be
true, how amazing and wonderful has
become the world neighborhood, and
how clearly is the Christians duty to
make Christ known emphasized by the
universally of human suffering. Like
the man on the way to Jericho, ma
tions lie stricken, bleeding, hungry and
ready to die.
Over against this appalling fact, the
like of which the Christian never
faced before in all the history of the
world, stands Christ, Gods only an
sWer to human need. We of America
know him. We have him enthroned in
many an earnest heart. We have
throughout the land the open Bible,
Gods word spoken to sinful and suffer
ing man everywhere and in all ages,
words of love, words of hope and
words of comfort. How nightly it be-
| hooves US in this time of world tragedy
and suffering to study the parable of
| the Good Samaritan and to search our
! own hearts to know whether or not
we as individuals are rendering that
ministry to the suffering which human
need requires, and our knowledge of
| human suffering and our ability to al
leviate it insistently requires.
What a reproach that in the mas
ter's parable the representatives of re-
| ligion-the servants of the Temple of
| God-passed by the sufferer Each
knew of the case of human need. Each
looked upon the torn and bleeding
form. Each possessed the resources
from which to help. Yet each turned
away passing on the other side, delib-
erately walking away from this revela-
ton of suffering and need, deaf to this
cry. So proud, SO self-righteous, so ex-
| elusive, were these servants of religion,
and so devoted were they to the forms
and ceremonies of their service, and SO
filled with the thought of their own
Importance, that there seemed to be
no place in either heart for the milk
of human kindness. Will we ever again
permit this reproaeh to be laid at the
door of the representatives of religion
Can it be possible that those who pro-
feSS to be followers of Jesus Christ,
and who are the exponents and advo-
Gates of the Christian religion, shall
fail to exemplffy that high and holy
love whereWith the master loved men
Shall we forget in the days to come
that the master himself in answer to
the doubt of John the forerunner an.
nounced as the evidence of his divinity
and gave as the proof of his adequate
ministry to men, that ssthe blind re
ceive their sight, and the lame walk
the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf
hear, and the dead are raised up, an6
the poor have good tidings preached te
them.''
Shall we not, as we journey toward
the day of world peace, in our comfort
of circumstances, in our amplitude OF
resources. think of the peoples wht
have fallen by the way? Will not Bel
gium and France and Roumania ant
Armenia and great, old, riven, torn anC
demoraliZed Russia, draw out of thu
Christian heart of America the min
istry of healing, the ministry O
money, the ministry of a Christly
love-, Surely the great lessons of self
denial and self-sacrifice which we ar
learning as a people in this great wa
will in Gods good providence prepar
US for that new neighborhood create,
by the universally of suffering an,
the heart hunger of the world. Ma
God in his providence preserve tn
; faith and love of our people and pre-
, tect our resources in men and money
for worldwide campaign of evangel
ism after the war, and above all pre-
serve in the heart of our nation tina
reality of spiritual experience tina
will make our world ministry as beat
tiful and effective as was that of th
humble man of Samaria, who helpe
, his brother in need, when that nee
was discovered and the humble ira,
eler had the means at his hand to reI
der the succor which human sufferin
called forth.