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Show Do It Now! Many reasons suggest themselves for not going out of our way to aid people in trouble. Laziness says, "Why should you?" Fear of being misunderstood steps in. "Perhaps get mixed up in all sorts of unpleasantness," un-pleasantness," whispers Excessive Caution. No doubt the Samaritan who helped tha wounded man on the road between Jerusalem and Jericho felt that it might be more prudent to pass by, as the Pharisee and the Levite had done. But he swept such cowardly prompting aside. No harm ever came to anyone out of kindly effort, sympathetic words, readiness to lend assistance. If we stifle our impulses in that direction we may lose the greatest opportunities opportuni-ties of our lives, . |