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Show PROVED TRUTH OF PARABLE. Negro Preacher's Assertion Not Complimentary Com-plimentary to Good Samaritan. A Southern vwitor tolls this story of a nogro pieacher's version of tho parahle ot the flood Samaritan: There was a tiaveler on a lonely toad, said thu pruaehur, who was set upon by thieves, robbed, nnd left wounded nnd helpless by the waysldo As lie lay there various person passed hint, hut nono offered to nsslst him. l'rcsentlj, howovsr, n poor Samaritan Sa-maritan came by, nnd taking pity on tho wounded man's plight, holped him on his mule and took hlra to an Inn, where he ordered food and drink and raiment for the man, directing tho Innkeeper to send tli bill to Mm, "And dls am a true story, broth'ren," concluded the preached; "for do Inn uin stamlln' dero yet, and In da do'way am btandlu' do skel'ton ob d Innki-eper, wtitln fer de Good So ruarltfui to coioe back an' pay de bill " |