Deuteronomy 22:1-4 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them… We have lately been doing a blessed work amongst the cabmen of Manchester, many of whom have signed the pledge. I heard the other night that one of them had broken his pledge and I went to the cab rooms to look after him. I saw him there, but he tried to avoid me. He was ashamed to face me. I followed him up, and at last he presented himself before me, wearing a most dejected look. I said to him, "When you are driving your cab, and your horse falls down, what do you do?" "I jumps off the box and tries to help him up again." "That is it, my friend, I replied. "I heard you had fallen, and so I got off my box to help you up. Will you get up? There is my hand." He caught hold of it with a grasp like a vice, and said, "I will, sir; before God, and under His own blue heavens, I promise you that I will not touch a drop of strong drink again; and you will never have to regret the trouble you have taken with me." Oh, Christian friends, there are many poor drunkards who have fallen down. "Will you not get off the box, and help them up?" (C. Garrett.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother. |
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