Article August 8, 1970 Issue

Signs of the Times

From "Think on These Things" column in the Hastings & St. Leonards Observer
Hastings, Sussex, England

"I never do anyone any harm." This is often pronounced as if it were the highest ideal of... morality. Usually, perhaps, said in self-defence in conjunction with the context of "I don't go to church, but I'm just as good as those who do."

Unfortunately God expects rather more from us than this. He expects us not only to do no harm, but to do some positive good to other people from time to time. The highest expression of the love we should have for our fellow man is given by Our Lord in the parable of the good Samaritan. The priest and the Levite, you remember, passed by. They had some excuse. The road was undoubtedly a dangerous one.... The robbers who had already wounded and robbed one man, might still be lurking around ready to rob another. If tackled about it afterwards, the priest and the Levite could have replied, "Well, I didn't do him any harm—I just passed by."...

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