WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?
(By Sam G. Davis, illiterate.)
*‘Who is my neighbor?” is a great
question, but not a few people fan
cy they have answered it by saying,
“I don’t know his name. Only thing
1 know about him is he is trying to
send his children to our school, and
he himself is voting for men who are
making laws for our country and
him and his dogs keep me awake
at night.”
In the case before us a lawyer
came to Jesus with the great test
question, “Master, what shall I do
to inherit eternal life.” The law
yer is referred back to his own
most familiar field of life and
thought, the law. What is written
in the law ? How readest thou ?
The lawyer said, Here it is; Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart, and thy neighbor as
thyself. Jesus then gives a direct
and complete answer; This do and
thou shalt live.
Like many another inquirer, how
ever, the lawyer is more eager to
talk than to act. His question is
answered. Does he go forth to car
ry out in his life the principle so
clearly announced? No. The an
swer to one question only calls forth
another, And who is my neighbor.
To this question no answer is given.
Instead, Jesus tells a little story,
and the story flashes out the truth
that no answer could have conveyed.
We call it the Parable of Good
Samaritan.
We have here a living picture of
neighborhood. One time a Doctor
came to Howkan with a young
friend. They crossed the bay and
theer found a canoe on the beach.
In the canoe was an old coat and
pair of old shoes. The owner, a
poor Indian, was out hunting deer.
The young man said let us hide his
shoes, and let us go round the first
Point and watch him looking for his
shoes when he comes out. My dear
friend, said the Doctor, we must
never amuse ourselves at the ex
pense of others. Let us amuse our
selves the other way. Put a dollar
in each shoe, and then hide our
selves and see what the Indian will
do. They did so. *
It was not long before the Indian
came out, took his old shoes out
from the canoe and thrust his foot
into a shoe. Something hard hurt
his toe. He took off the shoe and
shook it; out came a dollar. He
picked it up, looked at it again
and again, then about on all sides
to see who had done it, but could
see no one. Then reaching for the
second shoe he found another dollar;
his astonishment was very great, and
his feelings overcame him. Who
could have done this. He could see
no one. So he knelt down on the
beach and with uplifted hand thank
ed God, telling Him of the white
man, of his sick wife with the two
needy half breed children in his
care. A great joy came into the
young man’s heart and tears ran
down his face, while the Doctor said
to him: Now are you not better
pleased than if you had played your
intended trick? Yes, said the young
man. It is more blessed to give
than to receive.
Neighbors are made, not born. Ev
ery man may have just as many
neighbors as he chooses to make,
no more—no less.
Who is my neighbor?
ALTHORP PLANT
GETS BIG PACK
The Deep Sea Salmon Co., at Port
Althorp put up 96,000 cases of fish
during the present season, accord
ing to August Buschmann, head of
the company and the plant’s opera
tions.
The pack this year is the largest
in the history of the plant. It was
finished by August 10, when the
closed season regulations on com
mercial fishing for salmon in this
district became effective. No more
canning will be attempted this sea
son.
Another prominent canneryman
who is one of those who published
the “blacklist” bought two quarts
of whiskey from one of the “black
listed,” but has failed to pay for
the same. Pretty tough for the
man to be blacklisted and hi-jacked
too.
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Fruit, Soft Drinks
BEN SIMPSON
Metlakatla, Alaska
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Citizens”
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Capital and Surplus $100,000.00
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highest prices for their halibut and salmon.
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now produce only hard transparent ice which preserves
the fish one hundred per cenf.