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staunch the sorrows which cause it to run so easily is worth still less.— Sel. v. 35. Take care of him. A thousand pities that sometimes Christian charities and Christian common sense dissolve partnership. The Samaritan was a man of business and did his compassion in a businesslike fashion.— Expos, of Holy Scrip. v. 36. Which was neighbor? There are a great many who think that obliga tion is a matter of geography and that love, like force, is “ inversely as the/ square of the distance.” We are not to love because we are neighbors in a geographical sense, but we become neighbors to the man farthest from us when we love and help him.—Maclaren. Who are neighbors? Are they members in good standing of OUR church? Mem bers of the best families, respectable' people? Your neighbor and mine is the man and woman who needs us, who is struggling against, or has yielded to the influences of temptation and environ- ment, physical and mental handicap and heredity.— P. B. Brooks. The word neighbor can be spoken in a breath, but unwind that word and it measures off the whole of our earthly life; it covers all of our practical everyday duties.— Expos. Bible. To the Jewish mind, neighbor was simply “ Jew” , spelt large. —Sel. The impulse to clear the road of robbers and prevent the same from hap pening again falls in the same category as the recue of the perishing.—Clarke. v. 37. He that showed mercy. If love to God does not find a field for its manifestation in active love to man, worship in the temple will be mockery. — Sel. Philanthropic unbelievers and unphilanthropic believers are equally monstrosities.—Maclaren. He who lifts another’s load; who soothes another’s smart; who brightens a life that else would be dark; who puts music within a brother’s soul, makes even sweeter ’ music within his own, for he enters on earth into his Master’s joy.— Burton.
have compassion on him. The wine typifies his precious blood. The oil is a type of the Holy Spirit. The inn is typical of the church, where the Lord, through His Spirit, cares for His own. The promised coming again with a greater reward is the Lord’s second com ing.— Gaebelein. v. 31. A certain priest. He was an important functionary,- and returning from his priestly functions and thought work like that could be left to some more commonplace man. The Levite was just behind and he would attend to this case. There are always plenty of excuses for not playing a neighbor’s part.— Torrey. There are those, alas, today who wear the livery of the temple, to whom religion is a routine mechan ism of dead things, rather than the commerce of living hearts, who open with hireling hand the temple gates.-r— Burton. It is sad when those who should be examples of charity, displaying the mercies of God, are prodigies of cruelty. — Henry. v. 33. A certain Samaritan. It was a' daring stroke to bring the despised name of Samaritan into the story and one sees what a hard morsel to swallow the lawyer found it by his unwillingness to name him after all.-—Maclaren. It makes, no difference to him that the fallen man is of an alien race. He is a MAN; that is enough; and he is down and must be raised; he is in need and must be helped. Upon his great soul he feels the pressure of this “ must” ; it runs along the tightened muscles of his arm as he checks his steed.— Burton. We emphasize our differences of nation ality; we pride ourselves upon them, but how little does heaven make of them. Heaven does not even see them. ¡''-rfirElxpos. Bible. Had compassion. The help that is given as a matter'of duty without the outgoing of heart will be worth little, and soon cease to flow, but the emotion that does not drive the wheels of action and set to work to
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