Show ALONG LIFES LIFE'S TRAIL T R A I L By THOMAS A. A CLARK Dean DMn of Men MII University of Illinois tt HJ t n 1924 1971 Western Newspaper Union NEIGHBORS sit no IIo Is my neighbor the theW w W querulous lawyer asked the Christ and it was the simple stor story of ot the despised Samaritan which was told him to to Illustrate the point It Is s a II astory astory story familiar to most people no doubt A certain man sets off for fOl Jericho alon alona along alonga a road and through a n country difficult dangerous beset by perils lie Ile Is held up on the way 11 beaten rob robbed bell stripped of ot his clothing and left bleeding and broken h by the roadside Thirst and und hunger and poin rack him but the way Is lonely and the Ole travelers few In time a educated pious fed well comfortably clothed comes down the road and hearing the groans of the unfortunate man 1 lying by the way walks over and und gazes at nt him tutu curl curi How flow unfortunate te he probably murmured but hut the man was no friend of ot his he lie had been heen a n fool to take t such sucha a R Journey alone and 1 I. Any Any- Anyway way nay It was the business of ot his lends friends to look after him him and the virtuous us priest an walked ed on It was a a religious aristocrat aristocrat aristo aristo- crat who en came me next nett down the road the tile groans of the Injured man he walked ed discreetly on the other side I so that his ears might not be annoyed annoyed an nn- no noyed ed by the cries of the sufferer or his body hody made unclean through ph physical st ca cal contact with him What was unpleasant unpleasant un un- pleasant he would avoid He was the selfish self satisfied self-complaisant self citizen It was the Samaritan despised and socially outcast from whom nothing should have been heen expected who recognized recognized recognized the demands of brotherhood and whose tender heart turned toward the unfortunate man He was a neighbor to him There was a letter In the mall mail this morning from John asking for a loan of ot thre He was sick In a hospital In Iti Hot Springs s he said and n lid nc needed a It few l lew W comforts not ui U by hy the management He would return It when he lie came north in the spring John you should know Is a n knight of the road rond who does our house cleanIng cleaning clean clean- Ing every spring His buttons are not all nIl on tight Im I'm afraid Lending him mone money is not a wholly safe Investment Im I'm sure John has few neIghbors neighbors- But he does his work faithfully he Is la loyal and honest and just now he hns has fallen among thieves thle of a n sort sort- who have robbed him of his strength and his power to make a n living Better Detter send It to him Nanc Nancy said and I thinking of the He Good Samaritan went out and mailed him the tire thre He paid It back In the spring |