MR. B. was once visiting a friend, During their conversation the door of the study was opened suddenly and little Fred, the four year old son of the friend, entered crying bitterly and exclaimed:
"Papa, I don't want to be the priest any more
"What does the little fellow mean"? asked Mr. B.
By further inquiry the following was learned: In the nursery they were playing "The merciful (called good) Samaritan." Little Julia was the one who had fallen among thieves; Max was the Levite; Lydia the merciful Samaritan; Frank the inn-keeper, and Johnny was the donkey, that carried the poor wounded man to the inn. Little Fred was repeatedly made to play the priest that passed by without caring for the wounded roan. This got to he too much for the kindhearted little fellow who insisted he would rather be the burden bearing donkey than the priest, who did nothing for the poor robbed, stripped and wounded man.
My clear reader, what part have you chosen in the midst of the misery of this poor world?
Messages of God’s Love 9/23/1934