Throw this worthless
servant into the outer darkness where men shall wail and grind their
teeth.'"

THE GOOD SAMARITAN

Once a lawyer stood up to test Jesus with this question, "Master, what
shall I do to receive eternal life?" Jesus said to him, "What is written
in the law? How does it read?" He answered, "You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your
strength and with all your mind; also your neighbor as yourself." Jesus
said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this and you will live."

But wishing to justify himself he said to Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"
Jesus answered, "A certain man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell
in with robbers who after stripping and beating him went away, leaving
him half dead. Now it happened that a certain priest was going by the
same road, but when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.

"In the same way a Levite, when he came to the place, looked at the man
and passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, travelling along, came
near to where the man was, and when he saw him he was filled with pity.
He came to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on them oil and wine.
Then he set him on his own beast, brought him to an inn, and took care
of him. The next day he took out two pieces of money and gave them to
the inn-keeper, saying, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I
will pay you when I return.'

"Which of these three do you think proved neighbor to the man who fell
in with robbers?" He said, "The man who took pity on him." Jesus said to
him, "Then go and do likewise."

THE WAY TO TREAT THOSE WHO WRONG US

"If your brother wrongs you, go, show him his fault when you and he are
alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. Even
though he wrongs you seven times in a day, if he turns to you seven
times and says, 'I am sorry,' you shall forgive him."

[Illustration: (C) _Curtis Publishing Company_

_The Good Samaritan_

Painted by Herbert Moore]

Peter came and said to Jesus, "Master, how often am I to let my brother
wrong me and forgive him? Seven times?" Jesus said to him, "I tell you,
not seven times but seventy times seven.

"That is why the Kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a king who wished
to settle his accounts with his servants. When he had begun to settle
them, a man was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents; but as
he was unable to pay, the master ordered