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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
The International Lesson for Sunday,
January Eighteenth,
"':'' 1914.
LUKE 15:25-37.
25 And, behold, a certain lawyer
stood up, and tempted him, saying,
Master, what shall I do to inherit eter
nal fife?
26 He said unto him, What is writ
ten in the law? how readest thou?
27 And he answering said, Thou
shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all
-thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy strength, and with all thy
mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.
28 And he said unto him, Thou hast
answered right: this do, and thou shalt
live. "
29 But her, willing to justify him
self, said unto Jesus, And who is my
neighbour?
30 And Jesus answering said, A
certain man went down from Jerusa
lem to Jericho, and fell among thieves,
which stripped him of his raiment,
and wounded him, and departed, leav
ing him half dead.
. 31 And by chance there came down
a certain priest that way: and when
he saw him, he passed by on the oth-
.. er side. :
32 And likewise a Levite, when he
was at the place, came and looked on
him, and passed by on the other side.
33 But a certain Samaritan, as he
journeyed, came where he was: and
when he say him, he had compassion
on him,
34 And went to him, and bound up
his wounds, pouring in oil and wine,
and set him on his own beast, and
brought him to a inn,, and took care
of him.
35 And on the morrow when he de
parted, he took out two pence, and
gave them to the host, and said unto
him, Take care of him; and whatso
ever thou spendest more, when I
come again, I will repay thee.
36 Which now of these three, think
est thou, was neighbor unto him that
fell among the thieves?
37 And he said, He that shewed
mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto
him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Petrified phrases form a large part
of common speech; everybody uses
the words "good Samaritan," but few
who do so understand their real point.
A man is not a "good Samaritan"
when he helps a member of his own
lodge or church, or an old friend, or
a fellow-townsman, or one of his own
kinfolk. He is worthy of praise when
he does this, but he is not in the
good Samaritan class. That title is
reserved for the Irish who help Ital
ians, for the Jews who are kind to
Russians, for the British who deal ten
derly with Germans, for the Calif or-
nians who succor Japanese, for the
Texans who serve Mexicans, for the
Protestants who play brother to the
Roman Catholics, for the white men
who minister to the negroes, and for
all others who give friendliness where
unfriendliness might be exDected.
The whole point of the story is that
an alien did a good deed to a heredi
tary enemy who despised him. It was
no mere kindness of man to man, oof
iriend to friend. The good Samaritan
stands as the type of those who go
outside tneir own crowd and their own
natural sympathies and their own ra
cial group to do a kindness to the
needy. For "the Jews have no deal
ings with the Samaritans." The poor
est jew counted himself better than
the greatest Samaritan. The latter
was of mixed heathen blood and so
was disdained and despised. When
a Jewish wayfarer fell among thieves
on the Jericho road his own nationals,
the priest and the Levite, both of
whom should have worn the spirit of
"noblesse oblige" on their hearts,
passed him by in selfish unconcern.
And the "foreigner," the "heathen"
Samaritan gave instant, efficient and
continuous help to the man who was
down.- ''
This is a good story for these times.
For ours is the century of cosmopol
itanism. We are learning the les
son of world-brotherhood. The ba
sic human ties that underlie all na
tional or racial groupings are under-
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ing our international relations and
our Christian civilization to that ideal.
When north mid-China was starving
a few years ago and the prosperous
Chineses themselves were heedless, it
was the people of the United States
and Canada who sent the relief which
broke the famine. So today this wes
tern world is hearing the cry of
starving Albanians and Bulgarians.
The earth is full of the good Samari
tan spirit in this year of our Lord
1914.
Indeed, so generally accepted is this
principle of everybody's duty to help
the suffering anywhere that it is hard
for us to catch the radical note in the
beautiful story that Jesus told. To
His hearers it was a remarkable tale,
and almost incredible. That an out
lawed Samaritn should be merciful to
Jew, who, in strength, might have
scoffed or spit at him, was not easy
to believe. The teaching of the par
able has made such progress among
men that to us it is the natural-and
reasonable procedure that every hu
man being in real need should receive
succor. Thep light of the Jews in
Russia, of the blacks on the Congo,
of the Christian Koreans in prison, I
of thes laves on the cocoa plantations
all evoke a swift answer from the
heart of the twentieth century.
Even farther yet has the Good Sa
maritan idea, as Jesus set it forth
made its way in the world. Today
we perceive that suffering, destitu
tion, or need of any kind, has a real
claim upon the race. War itself , cruel
and antiquated as it is, recognizes the
rights . of the wounded of the other
side; and Japan cared for the Rus
sian wounded. An accepted of this
Christian age is that the world owes
its help to every man who is down
The social service conception rules
civilization. The scorn which the gen
tle tale of Jesus heaps upon the priest
and the Levite falls straight upon ev
ery man or woman today who refuses
to be a helper of his fellows.
The immortal story was born of the
heckling of Jesus by a lawyer. The
discussion had been of eternal life
that is, of life which partakes of the
eternal qualities in its character as
well as in its duration. Obviously,
mere prolongation of existence is not
enough to make heaven. This lawyer
wanted to be a son and inheritor of
eternal life. He asked Jesus how,
A Socratic answer . was returned.
What say the Scriptures? The law
yer was a good one, on Course, the law
in which he was versed was the sac
red law, and not the civil and he
made answer according to the etern
al principle: Love God and love your
neighbor. That was easily answered.
Ah, how simple is the saying of a
creed! We are glib in religious affili
ations. This lawyer though, had not
sounded the deeps of the teaching of
the life loyalty that is first of all given
to a Soverign Jehovah; and that ex
presses itself in tireless service of
humanity. So he has disconcerted
by the terse retort of Jesus, "This do
and thou shalt live," thus stressing
the doing of the Word, rather than
the reciting of the formula.
True of type, the quibbling lawyer
sought a technicality. He was really
more interested in justifying himself
than in learning the truth. He cared
more for his own reputation than for
any new knowledge. So he thought
to wriggle but of the dilemma by
the evasive question, "Who is my
neighbor?" I know that style of
person; so does every reader. He
thinks that to be able to discuss so
cial questions is equivalent to doing
social service; that criticism of the
preacher is a satisfactory substitute
for church work; that to bep osted
on current issues absolves one from
actual ministry for mankind.
That lawyer's quibble brought forth
a revolutionary principle of neighbor-
liness, and a literary classic. For
Jesus made answer in the story of
the Good Samaritan, a deathless par
able which has been a well of know
ledge and inspiration from which
preachers and teachers beyond any
man's numbering have been drawing
for nineteen centuries.
No other book has so may internal
evidences of genuinesness as the Bi
ble. Thus, this little story tells how
the traveler "went down" from Jeru
salem to Jericho. Those of us who
have been over the road know how he
"went down," a -descent of almost a
mile in a short journey of about 20
miles. Jericho lies in the deepest de
pression of the earth's surface, which
is the valley of the Dead Sea.
That difficult road has been by one
of the strangest persistences so com
mon in the Orient, a resort for thieves
from time immemorial. Only recently
have the Turkish soldiers, made it
reasonably safe, and forced the line
of outlawry to the Jordan river. Ev
ery hearer of the story, as Jesus told
it, recognized the appropriaten set
ting of the incident on that lonely and
dangerous road; which now, however,
is safely traveled by hundreds of pil
grims every year. A rest house and
souvenir shop today stands on the re
puted site of the scene.
Typically Orient, too, is the eager
ness of the priest and the Levite to
avoid entangling themselves in the
scrape. "Don't mix up in the other
man's trouble," is the selfish rule
there. In China they will let a man
drown, rather than try 'to succor him.
A rare Samaritan was the hero of tho
parable, to take personal responsibil
ity of the stranger in trouble, and
put himself to inconvenience and ex
pense. : I met a young American Jew
at Jaffa once who took exactly this
same sort of care of a poor old wo
man whom he met in the steamship
office, eager to get to Alexandria. He
was a modern improvement on the
priest and the Levite.
The parable points the truth that
life is won by deeds of kindness. To
have life, which is fullness experi
ence, we must give of ourselves to
other lives. "A man's life consists of
the number of things to which he is
alive." A wealthy western business
man boasted to me recently that he
has never been hundred miles from
his native city ; and he has no interest
except his business of making money,
Poor fellow! I pitied him more than
any beggar I saw on his city's streets.
He cannot even see why it is that his
business is slipping away from him,
he is losing money, and his soul is
like a shrivelled pea. He has missed
life. Had he 1 een wise enough to
give he would have been able really
to live. The nijrgardly, self-serving,
self -engrossed life misses even the
little goals at which it aims. The
Good Samaritan way is the way of
wisdom, as well as of helpfulness. Al
truism is a workable philosophy.
Man Found Shot, Hired Own Slayer,
Police Say.
Berwick, Pa., Jan. 8. That William
Lechtenfeld, whose body was found
riddled with bullets in Briar Creek
Township December 19, had paid $30
for his own murder, is the conclusion
announced today by officers who have
been working for weeks on the case.
Lechtenfell furnished the revolver
that he borrowed from another. He
bought the cartridges that were to
penetrate his own body. He then hir
ed the assassin to commit the deed
and stood in the bushes while the
fellow aimed and fired, is the theory
of the police.
To prove this the State constabu
lary officers have much evidenee. ; The
motive of the criwe was lacking from
the first. There was every indicatiuu
if suicide with the impossibility of
He had threatened suicide by pois
oning and shooting but feared to do
so. In a saloon he offered money to
man to kill him, and it has been
established that he left the saloon
with a strange foreigner, although
nothing was thought of it at the time.
The fact that he paid for his own
murder is indicated by the fact that
ne had money about the amount he
iffered for the killing when he left
home and there was little on his per
son when the body was found.
"You sem fond of moving pictures."
"For a change," replied Miss Cay
enne, "it is one of the few forms of
heatrical entertainment where you
ire sure there won't be dialogue con
aining profanity." Washington Star.
DO YO U
Notable Victory for Harry K. Thaw.
Concord, N. H., Jan. 11. Harry K.
Thaw would not be a public menace
if released on bail, according to the
report of the commission appointed
by Federal Judge Aldrich to inquire
into Thaw's mentality. The report
says the commission finds Thaw is
not now afflicted with any of the men
tal diseases from which he was suffer
ing when he slew Stanford White.
The finding was announced today.
While the commissioners say they
have reached "a definite and posi
tive opinion" as to the present men
tal condition of Thaw and his prob
able state of mind at the time of the
homicide, "they refrain from express
ing this opinion in view of their in
structions from the court not to em
barrass any subsequent litigation,
when the broad question of insanity
might be involved."
"Upon the question of menace or
danger) through granting of bail, we
may, however, be permitted and prob
ably are compelled," concludes the re
port, "to record our finding that what
ever may have been the mental con
dition of Harry K. Thaw at the time
of the homicide, he now is not suffer
ing from any of the mental diseases
alleged by the prosecution at the time
of the trials or subsequently thereto
namely, manic-depressive insanity.
paranoia, dementia praecox or delusi-
only insanity.
"In our opinion it is reasonably
probable that Harry K. Thaw's liber
ty under bail would not be dangerous
or a menace to the public safety."
Mr. Crabb "A speaker in Syracuse
said that the women of today are not
using their brains."
Mrs. Crabb "She's right. If they
were there would not be so many
getting married." Buffalo Express.
OUR EXCELLENT
STSTEM
of arranging the details for
each and every funeral entrust
ed to our ear leave with
those upon whom we wait a
fooling of eonadenco and sat
isfaction that tho last offices
wore performed with such per
fect harmony aa to greatly les
sen the ladaeaa connected with
such an event.
WILLIAMS, GKXHN & MeCLURB,
Undertaken. '..
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Rev. A. B. Randall, Pastor.
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