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of duty and w ithout the outgoing of h e a rt will be worth little and soon cease to flow, h u t the emotion th a t does not drive th e wheels of action and set to work to staunch the sorrows which cause it to run so easily is worth still less.— K. B. 1918. His best is men tioned first, for he who gives outward things gives something external to him self bu t he who im parts compassion and tears gives him something from his very se lf.^G re g o ry . v. 35. T ake care of him . A thou sand pities th a t sometimes Christian charities and C hristian common sense dissolve partnership. The Sam aritan was a man of business and did his com passion in a business like fashion.—Bel. v. 36. Which was neighbor? There are many who th in k th a t obligation is a m a tte r of geography and th a t love like force is “ inversely as the square of th e distance.” We are not to love because we are neighbors in a geograph ical sense bu t we become neighbors to th e man farth est |rom us when we love and help him .— Maclaren. There are some who are w illing enough to love th e ir neighbors so long as the selection of the neighbor is left to themselves.— P. B. Brooks. The word neighbor can be spoken in a b reath b u t unw ind th a t word and it m easures off th e whole of our earth ly life. It covers all of our practical everyday duties. — Expos. Bible. To th e Jew ish m ind neighbor was simply • “ Jew ” spelt large.— Sel. The impulse to clear th e road of rob bers and prevent th e same from hap pening again falls in the same category as th e rescue of th e perishing.— Clarke. My neighbor is everyone who is wounded of Satan and sin, everyone half dead w ith his assaults whom I meet in the jou rney of time. We meet him a t every tu rn , sick, sore, troubled unto death, stripped, w ithou t Christ, w ith out hope and w ithout God in the world. Haldeman. v. 37 H e th a t showed mercy on him .
If love to God does not find a field for its m anifestation in active love to man, worship in th e temple will he a mock ery.— Sel. Philanthropic unbelievers and unphilanthropic believers are equally monstrosities.—-K. B. 1918. T rain your soul to sympathy and your hand to helpfulness.— Expos. Bible. He who lifts ano th er’s load, who soothes an o th e r’s sm art, who puts music w ithin a b ro th er’s soul, makes even sweeter music w ithin his own, for he enters on earth into his M aster’s joy.— Burton. Showing K indness to O thers. Gal. 6:2, 9, 10. Memory Verse: He th a t h ath mercy on the poor, happy is he. Prov. 14:21. Approach: Not long ago I saw a little boy crying because ano th er rough unkind boy had knocked him down and h u rt him , and spilled his lunch which he had in a little bas- BEGINNERS k e t ou t in th e dirt, so AND PRIMARY th a t most of it was Mabel L. M errill spoiled, and ju s t be fore I came up to the hoy ano th er little boy came up and put his arm s around him and was trying to com fort him , and th en w hat do you th in k I heard th e other boy say to the one who was crying? He told him he could have some of his lunch. As I stopped and talked w ith th e boys I told them th is story we are to have to day about showing mercy, which means showing kindness, and I found out th e little boy who was kind to the other loved Jesu s and was in Sunday School. Lesson Story: ..Today we have a won derful story and we are going to enjoy it very much for it is one P au l w rote in a le tte r to some of th e people he had visited once. You know sometimes people have trouble and are sad, and P au l told them when he w rote to them th a t they m ust help each o th er hear th e ir troub le and sorrows and shdw them kindness and help ju st like the
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