Show NEIGHBORS amr HO Is my neighbor the W querulous lawyer asked the christ and it was the simple story of the despised samaritan which was told him to illustrate the point it Is a story familiar to most people no doubt A certain man sets oft off tor for jericho along a road and through a country difficult dangerous beset by perils he Is held up on the way beaten rob robbed bed stripped of his clothing and left bleeding and broken by the thirst and hunger and coln rack him but the way Is lonely and uie the travelers few in time a educated pious well fed comfortably clothed comes down the road and hearing the groans of the unfortunate man lying by the way walks over and gazes at him curiously now how unfortunate he be probably murmured but the mon man was no friend of his he had been a fool to take such a journey alone and unprotected anyway it was the business of his friends to look after him and the die virtuous priest walked on it was a levite a religious aristocrat who came next down the road hearing the groans of the injured man he walked discreetly on the other side so that his ears might not be annoyed nov ed by the cries of tb the e sufferer or his body made unclean through physical contact with him what was unpleasant he would avold avoid ile he was the selfish self satisfied self complaisant citizen it was the samaritan despised and socially outcast cutca t from whom nothing should have bate been expected who recognized the demands of brotherhood and whose tender heart turned toward the unfortunate man ile he was a neighbor to him there was a letter in the mall mail this his morning from john asking tor for a loan of thre delers lie be was sick in a hospital in hot springs he said and needed a few comforts not supplied by the management lie he would return it when lie he came north in the spring john you should know Is a knight of tile the road who does docs our house cleaning every spring ills buttons are not all on tight im afraid lending him money Is not a wholly safe investment im sure john has few neighbors but he does his work faithfully he is loyal loval and honest said and just now lie he has fallen among thieves of a sort who have robbed him of his strength and his power to make a living better send it to him nancy said and 1 I thinking of the good samaritan went out and mailed him the thre delers ile he paid it back in the spring |