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violence . ' This took place on the road leading from Jerusalem to Jericho . Such was the unchangeable nature of the peculiar characteristics of some nations of the East , that modern travellers informed them the road was still celebrated for the number of its thieves a-.-d depredators , and that scenes similar to that depicted in this parable had been enacted within comparatively recent periods , —circumstances which had vividl y impressed on the minds-of travellers the narrative given by our Saviour
in this parable . The first character presented to their notice was the traveller , one of a numerous class , whom the calls of business or the claims of devotion hacl led to travel on the road leading from Jerusalem to Jericho . He falls among thieves , is stripped , is seriously wounded and maltreated , is left on the road in a helpless and forlorn condition , in the highest degree an object of pity and compassion . The first who observes the traveller in this state is the priestone who—from his office
, , being a professed minister of that pure and holy religion , emanating directly from God , and which inculcated the duty of universal benevolence—could not he supposed to be capable of passing by such an object . He , however , did pass him by , and so did the Levite , another of those who , from his position , ought to be among the foremost to administer relief to his brother under such circumstances . At length an individual sees himhas compassion upon himancl goes ancl relieves him . This
, , individual is a Samaritan—one of a class of persons whom all Jews , from their youth , were taught to despise . This was exemplified in the case of the woman at the well , who was surprised that a Jew should receive water at the hands of a Samaritan . Our Lord , however , commended the conduct of the Samaritan , by asking the lawyer who the neighbour
of the man who had fallen among thieves was . The answer was , ' He that showed mercy on him . ' Hence the text inculcates the principle of benevolence , not confined to our immediate friends or countrymen , but one universal in its character . After dilating on this portion of the subject , the Rev . Chapkin proceeded to observe that this parable not only taught them the duty of individual benevolence , but showed them that ' Union was strength , ' exhibiting the advantages of combination , of uniting
our efforts with those of others in works of charity and benevolence . Union was the strength of their country . This was self-evident , as it related to their commerce , and to everything else contributing to their national prosperity . Who would have thought that the proud imperial Rome had originated in the small ancl unimportant group originally congregated on the banks of the Tiber ? AU great results exemplified the good arising from man combining with his fellow-man for the accomplishment
of good purposes . It was on this great principle their Order was founded . Laws were found necessary for the protection of the weak and innocent against those who were strong hut vicious . No community progresses prosperously ancl successfully without laws . Hence it was that the great Law-giver had framed a code of laws for the government af his peculiar people , throughout the whole of which was inculcated the principle of universal benevolence . They were in it told not to treat slihtinglthe
g y widow ancl the oppressed ; to deal charitably towards our Brethren ; to do unto others as we would they should do unto us . These principles were yet more strongly inculcated by our Saviour , of whom Moses prophesied when he said that another law-giver should be given them , and that they should listen to his words . Yet they found in the text teachers of the law not knowing how sufficiently to limit the bounds of their benevolence . They had lost the spirit of the law . and substituted for it
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violence . ' This took place on the road leading from Jerusalem to Jericho . Such was the unchangeable nature of the peculiar characteristics of some nations of the East , that modern travellers informed them the road was still celebrated for the number of its thieves a-.-d depredators , and that scenes similar to that depicted in this parable had been enacted within comparatively recent periods , —circumstances which had vividl y impressed on the minds-of travellers the narrative given by our Saviour
in this parable . The first character presented to their notice was the traveller , one of a numerous class , whom the calls of business or the claims of devotion hacl led to travel on the road leading from Jerusalem to Jericho . He falls among thieves , is stripped , is seriously wounded and maltreated , is left on the road in a helpless and forlorn condition , in the highest degree an object of pity and compassion . The first who observes the traveller in this state is the priestone who—from his office
, , being a professed minister of that pure and holy religion , emanating directly from God , and which inculcated the duty of universal benevolence—could not he supposed to be capable of passing by such an object . He , however , did pass him by , and so did the Levite , another of those who , from his position , ought to be among the foremost to administer relief to his brother under such circumstances . At length an individual sees himhas compassion upon himancl goes ancl relieves him . This
, , individual is a Samaritan—one of a class of persons whom all Jews , from their youth , were taught to despise . This was exemplified in the case of the woman at the well , who was surprised that a Jew should receive water at the hands of a Samaritan . Our Lord , however , commended the conduct of the Samaritan , by asking the lawyer who the neighbour
of the man who had fallen among thieves was . The answer was , ' He that showed mercy on him . ' Hence the text inculcates the principle of benevolence , not confined to our immediate friends or countrymen , but one universal in its character . After dilating on this portion of the subject , the Rev . Chapkin proceeded to observe that this parable not only taught them the duty of individual benevolence , but showed them that ' Union was strength , ' exhibiting the advantages of combination , of uniting
our efforts with those of others in works of charity and benevolence . Union was the strength of their country . This was self-evident , as it related to their commerce , and to everything else contributing to their national prosperity . Who would have thought that the proud imperial Rome had originated in the small ancl unimportant group originally congregated on the banks of the Tiber ? AU great results exemplified the good arising from man combining with his fellow-man for the accomplishment
of good purposes . It was on this great principle their Order was founded . Laws were found necessary for the protection of the weak and innocent against those who were strong hut vicious . No community progresses prosperously ancl successfully without laws . Hence it was that the great Law-giver had framed a code of laws for the government af his peculiar people , throughout the whole of which was inculcated the principle of universal benevolence . They were in it told not to treat slihtinglthe
g y widow ancl the oppressed ; to deal charitably towards our Brethren ; to do unto others as we would they should do unto us . These principles were yet more strongly inculcated by our Saviour , of whom Moses prophesied when he said that another law-giver should be given them , and that they should listen to his words . Yet they found in the text teachers of the law not knowing how sufficiently to limit the bounds of their benevolence . They had lost the spirit of the law . and substituted for it