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many-colored blankets thrown over their shoulders. The women wore their picturesque black woolen skirts with ten or fifteen yards of cloth pleated- across the back. They carried banners and figures of the saints, and chanted prayers. They had made a pilgrimage to the town where there is a statue of Christ that is reputed to grow each year. Hopelessness, was written v on their faces. They had gone to rid them selves of their sins, but there was no joy or satisfaction for them. This is the story of thousands of Indian v il lages all over Mexico. III. THE GOOD SAMARITAN (vs. 33-35). Into one such Indian town that we know, moved two ambassadors of Christ who wanted to be good Samari tans. At first, they were met with sus picion, and the Indians, being fearful, even threatened to kill them. But the Samaritans learned .to speak the In dian language, and did all the little kind and helpful things they could, until finally the fear and suspicion disappeared. Chona, like scores of others, brought her baby for medicine. A clock was given for the chiefs’ meet ing place. Old Juana, who is Crippled with rheumatism and has no living relatives to help her, came regularly for a few potatoes or an onion. She had thought that the priest and Levite were the only ones who could help her, but now she says, “Thank you, thank you. I am so stupid and cannot un derstand the speech of reason [Span ish], but you tell us in our own way. You put me on the straight road to heaven.” IV. MORE GOOD SAMARITANS (vs. 36, 37). It cost the Samaritan in the para ble something to help the wounded man. He walked, making it possible for the injured one to ride his beast. He spent much in time and money. It costs all this and more to take the gospel to those who are sin- wounded. Sometimes it costs life it self. But you are called to be a good Samaritan. Your call is in Acts 1:8.
M. Da Lathrop
Groce Ma Roberts
March 5—M. Da LATHROP
Mr. Lathrop is a member of the Wycliffe Bible Translators in Mexico. He has been living in a Tarascan Indian village for over seven years, and has not only reduced the language to writing, but also has translated a major portion of the New Testament. The Gospel of John is ready for printing. Mrs. Roberts (Biola ’21) served in China several years as a missionary and music teacher at the ItUnan Bible Institute in Changsha. Upon her return to America, Mrs. Roberts has been a frequent speaker at young people’s groups and sum mer Bible conferences.
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March 12—GRACE M. ROBERTS
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as a race, of eternal life and joy. Among our Mexican Indians, his rob bery is clearly evident. Before the coming of the Spanish conquerors, the Indians built great pyramids and tem ples. Every year, at the top of the greatest pyramid, a ceremony tdok place in which the heart of an Indian girl was cut out as a sacrifice to the sun. Then the Spanish conquerors came and stripped the people of inde pendence, stealing their gold and re ducing them to slavery. Today degra dation and abject poverty are the wound? of this robbery. Their gov ernment seeks to help them, but the only real help must come from the Lord. II. THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES (vs. 31, 32). In the parable, the priest passed by on the other side of the road. In Mex ico, too, often he has joined with the robbers. There have been benevolent priests like the famous Las Casas, who crossed the road and tried to help. But some of the remedies poured into the Indians’ wounds were mixed with poison—the poison of idolatry. They could not offer healing. One day a procession w o u n d through the streets of the Indian town where we live. The men had their
MARCH 5, 1944 L E T ’S P R O V E O U R N E IG H B O R - L IN E S S L uke 10:25-37 By M. D. Lathrop Introduction If you love the Lord perfectly, and love your neighbor as much as you love yourself, you will have earned eternal life. But you cannot do it. “ All have sinned” (Rom. 3:23), and there is no exception.'It was for this reason that God sent His Son to Save sinners, to save any one who would admit his own sin, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. The- parable of the good Samaritan shows what good neighborliness is, and gives us an example to follow as we seek to love oursneighbor as our selves. It is not a way of salvation. God’s Word is perfectly clear that “by grace are ye saved through faith: and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8, 9). For Those Who Have Topics I. THE ROBBERS (Lk. 10:30). The first great robber was Satan. In the garden of Eden he robbed man,
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