And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved (Mark 13:13).

Stepping Aside for a Scoundrel

Due to a quarrel in the Senate at Washington, John Randolph and Henry Clay refused to speak to each other for several weeks. It wasn’t until they met on a narrow sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue that words were forced out of them.

Neither one would step aside for the other at first until Randolph, looking his opponent straight in the eye, declared:

“I never step aside for scoundrels!”

“I always do,” promptly replied Clay as he stepped out into the muddy street and let Randolph have the sidewalk.

Jew-Samaritan Hatred

There is a tradition that 300 priests with their trumpets and 300 rabbis with their scholars once gathered in the Temple court to curse the Samaritans with all the curses in the Law of Moses. Nor were the Samaritans less eager in hating and annoying. At the Passover it was the Jew’s custom to light bonfires on Mount of Olives, a signal for other fires till the Euphrates was reached, to send the messages to exiled Jews. The Samaritans lighted rival bonfires on other days to confuse the watchers.

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