ABSTRACT
The immediate intention of this inimitable story of the Good Samaritan is to show how an alien and even a heretic can be a truer neighbour to a man in distress than even the clergy of his own country. “ Do likewise ” means therefore, primarily, “ Show mercy and give help to those of other races, other opinions, other religions than your own.” But the moral appeal of the story carries us much farther and deeper, and becomes an urgent command to do good to all men, to be always and in all circumstances ready to fly to the help of the needy, to be the knight errants of the unfortunate, to be the steady and habitual workers for the welfare of mankind, for the healing and the improvement of human society. A true Christian is ever and everywhere and in every complication of circumstances a Good Samaritan.
