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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSOK. Ike l«tenisti«asl Leasoa for Siinday, JutuMxj IQfhteesth, 1»14. LUKE 15:25-37. 2& Andi behold, a certain lawyer atood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to iiiherit eter> Dal life? 26 He said unto him, What is -writ ten in the law? how readest thou? 27 And he answering said, Thou shalt lore the Lord, thy God, with -thy heart, and with all thy soul, and mth all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. 28 And he said unto him. Thou hast answeired 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 Ws 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 co/nc again, I v-'ill 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 spee-h; everybody uses the words “good Samaritan," but few who do so understand their real point. A man is net 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 d?al ten derly with Germans, for the Califor nians who succor Japanese, for the Texans who serve Me.’cicans, for the Protestants who play brother to the Borrian Catholics, for the white men who minister to the negroes, and for sll others who give friendliness where unfriendliness might be expected, Tlie whole point of the story is that ah alien did a good deed to a heredi tary enemy who despised him. It was no mere kindness of man to man, oof friend to friend. The good Samaritan stands as the type of those who go cutside their own crowd and tbeir own natural sympathies and their own ra cial group to d-o 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 seliish unconcern. And the “foreigner." the “heathen” Samaritan gave instant, eMcient and continuous help to the man who was down. This is a good story for these times. For ours is the centiiry of cosmoj>ol- itanism. We are learning the les son of world-brotherhood. The ba sic human ties that nnderise all na tional or racial groupings ara ander- stoo* I S never before. We are shap 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 suiieriiig 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 rsKarkable tale, and almost incredible. That an out lawed Samarita should be merciful to Jew, who, in strength, jnight 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 reasoiiable 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, of thes laves oh the cocoa plantations ail 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 Sus- sian wounded. An accepted of ^is Christian age is that the world owes its help to every man who is down. The social service ','onception 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 hia fellows. The immortal story was born of the heckling of Jesus by a lawyer. The discussion had been of eternal life— that is, of iife 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. Ho asked Jesus how. A Soerafie 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. Tiiat was easiiy answered. Ah; how simple is the saying of a creed! We c.re glib in religious affili ations. This iawyer 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 shait 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 tnith. He eared more for his own reputation than for any new knowledge. So he thought to wriggle out 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 io 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 fortii a revolutionary principle of neighbor iiness, and a literary classic. For Jesus made answer in the atory of the Good Samaritan, & deathless par- abla which has been a wall of know ledge and inspiration from which preachcrs and teachers beyond any man’s numbering have been drawing for nineteen centuries. No other book has so may interna! evidences af genuinesness as the Bi ble. Thus, this little story tdis 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 deepAst 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 for>«d the line of outlawry to the Jordan river. Ev ery hearer of the story, as Jesus told it, recognized the appropriate!; 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 Invite 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 hirri. A rare Samaritan waa the hero of tin 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 ofSce, 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 t;ee why it is tliat 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 realiy to live. The nictgardly, self-serving, self-engrossed life misses even the little goals at which it aims. The Good Sara.-sritan 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. Lechten/ell furnished the revolver that he borrowed from another. He bought the cartridges that were to penetiate his own body. He then hir ed the assassin to commit the deed and stood in the bushes while the fellow aimed and firsd, is the theory of the police. To prove this the State constaba- ’ary officers have much evidence. The motive of the criwc was lacking from the first. There was every indication >f suicide with the impossibility of it. He had threatened cuicida by pois- ining and shooting bat feared to do 50. In a saloon he offered money to I man to kill him, and it has been established that he left the saloon ■vith a straT5ge foreigner; although lothing 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 sent fond of moving pictures.” “For a change,” replied Miss Cay- onne. “It is one of the few forms of heatrical entertainment where you ire sure there won’t he dialogue con- aiuing profanity.”—^Washington Star. Notable Victory fw- Etarry K. Thsw. Concord, N. H., Jan. llv—Harry K. Thaw would not be a public tnenace if released on bail, according to the ’report of the commission a.ppoint«d 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 fi-oui 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 opiiiioii’’ a£ 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 tiie 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 yfhat- 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. 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. OVS BXCELUDTr STSTEM of airaBcii'W the da«tailt for ooeh aiul «T«ry fltB«ra] entrust ed to onz ear* leavea with thsts upon whoB we wkit a feeliitf of cooidflnos and sst- iafaetiea tiuft la*t offices wr« pertonaod with such per fect kaimony a* to gnmtly les- MR the la^aae eooaected with nch an event. vr^.LIAMS, 6KKKM ft MeCLVRB. DileytaWn. GSAKAM, K. C. ^■IUIIIIIIII.I.ll II 1 —I ll"!^ ICHUICH DmiCTCRT EOCUTT MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH, Ad«mt Avenue and Hail St. Rev. Jas. W. Rose, Pastor. Preaching every fourth Sunday .it 13 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday Schol every Sunday at 9:30 a. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday, 7;.’!0 p. tn. Ladies’ Aid Society first Sunday af ternoon. SPtSCOPAL The Cltsrel!; of The Bktly Cosifertc* The Rer. John Bonnei's Gibble, Koetor Sorvicea; Every Sanday, 11:00 a. in., and 1:Si Pe JO* Hoiy Csmmuoion: Urtt Scadsy, 1: a. m. Third S«niAy, 7:30 a. m. Holy and Saints' Days. 14:SS a, m Scnday Scheoi, 9;S0 a. m. T!m pobiie it emdiaQj taYtted. All pews fr«o. Fins vacted choir CHBI3TIAN CKSaCS. Gornar Ctmrcft aad Dsri* Broote. lUrr. A. B. Koadail, Paster. gyiachiBg mwrg Saaday, c. at. arad 7;3t p. m. Swuiajr Sciwd, S:4t a. m. ieke S Footes’, aaparintmiwiD^ durlctian Kadaaiw Stsyimm Saaday CBOBCa Oataw SMirii m SiuMlay SAoel mmrr aiyiiiil Pr«»cWn( vnrj mmi Sabbath, 11:60 a, aa., T:M p. «|l Mid-Week Barrlee avary ttanafcy, Taraoaaca aeeaaji PUMtTBI^AM CSUAOI. K»r. Donald Helv«r Krtw. Snrrieae StaAtf 11:06 a. aC and T:te p. bl fcadaj Ctekoot aA 9:4f a. au & X. Pntymr MeeiHiHt, W«4M«4ity ak T:te p.. m. pmVSt ia eeHUf to a( BAFTI8T CXeSCB. Bav. Mar^ W. Boek. Paatar- Snnday Wonhi#, 11:01 a. a*i 7:90 p. OS. Ssoday SdMol at •:«> a. k. j. 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Sacotid Sat. day at 7 ;30 p. la. SQjtday School every Sunday at 1 a. B. John F. Mul, Suparintcnden. Evaijitodx weic*BM^ MACEDONIA LUTH£RAK CHUBCK. Front Streel. rrotetfioMd Caiw Dr. L H. Alien Eye Spedahat Office Over C. F. We«e'« Store Burlington, - - N. C. Dr. J. S. Frost, Dentist, Buriington. - N. C. Office phone 374-J. Ree. 874-L, Rev, T. S. Btswb, Pastor. Horeiitg Barriem at 11:C0 a. m. Joag*a» at S:X> p. ■>. 'fo aervieM third Saadays. Svaaday Selwel •:«( a. iw. Prof. B. %«b(etaas>, SvparinAea^nt. Ceaehars’ MtoaHwc We^Mvday, 7:5: p. w. (nMlor’a Stady). Waama'n ItiaaUmtarf Saeiaty, Thsiaday Sa arary iwMh at 8:3- I-.as. L. C. B. Sneiaty, meead ’nksraday i. tvmey mimtk t:t9 p. is. Urtlnr Leagna, aeiaad and iourtl ■aa*^ a» SiM at J . P. .’SBnoa, 1). T, 8. tv. A Horniirtnj-, D. V M. Spoon it Kornadaj? Veterinarians (-■fflceaad lujnpii*! Oillce i’noB« 87'r 41S Maim St. bexidoiice I'htjue ShS C. A. Afiderson M. 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