The Jericho Traveler by T. E. Bowen

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 25, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 45.

The Jericho Traveler

By T. E. Bowen

DID you ever think of the parable of the wounded man down the road to Jericho as representing this lost world — robbed, wounded, and left to die miserably in its own blood? That the good Samaritan represented the compassionate Son, who, instead of going by on the other side, as He might have done, turned to bind up our wounds, pouring in oil and wine, then taking us to the inn and Himself providing for our further care — Himself paying the price of it all?

It was the love in the Samaritan's heart that caused him not to go by on the other side. Likewise it was the love of Christ that brought Him on past all the shining worlds on high to this one lost, perishing world needing His divine ministrations.

Seest thou one in need? Go thou and do likewise, and thou shalt experience a joy — a holy joy — that is described in Holy Writ as the “joy of thy Lord.”

T. E. BOWEN.