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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 Excerpt:... PART III. THE RESPONSIBILITY. Luke X. 36, 37. "Which Bow of these three thinkest thou, was neighbor to him that fell among the thieves'! And he said, he that showed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go and do thou likewise." We are left to imagine the rapid reasoning of priest and Levite, as they passed by a suffering son of Abraham and left him to perish in his blood. No doubt they thought, or tried to think, that he was not seriously wounded. Or they might have satisfied themselves with supposing, that amidst the multitude of travellers there would be some who could assist him more conveniently than they; and have made half a prayer, that some physician would pass along and bind up his wounds; or some man richer than themselves, who could better afford to pay the charges of charity. Or they might have thought, "the man is all but dead, and it is altogether needless for us to hinder ourselves on our way, to throw away the little which our scrip contains of provision for our journey, and by delay, to expose ourselves to be plundered and murdered by the robbers." With such excuses and self-deceivings, we. may suppose that they hurried away from the sight of his blood and the hearing of his groans; and by the time they had travelled a furlong or two, forgot their half-dead brother, and gave all their thoughts to the business of their own journey, or to more pleasing incidents of the road. Our Saviour, however, teaches us that the true reason of their passing by a suffering brother, was the want of that kindness and compassion which they ought to have felt for an alien or an enemy; and he extorts from the selfish and self-excusing lawyer his commendation of the Samaritan, who when he came in sight of a Jew, whom he had been taught to hate and despise, o...