American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 2, February, 1889

This number of the MISSIONARY contains the annual list of our workers, who go down the Jericho road to care for those who have been wronged, the poor and ignorant, who need the Gospel. Our ministers and teachers are not like the priest and the Levite, who looked upon the poor man and then "passed by on the other side;" nor do they merely pity and utter words of sympathy. They take right hold and help. They "pour in the oil and the wine," and they build the _inns_--that is, the churches and schoolhouses where they instruct and help the needy ones till they can take care of themselves and help to take care of others--the most genuine kind of assistance.