We have had occasion previously to take notice of the number of poets that are represented among the ministers highlighted at Log College Press. B.B. Warfield is one of those Presbyterian pastor-poets.
One of his particular compositions is brief but profound. Interestingly, he first published "Wanted: A Samaritan" in January 31, 1907 issue of The Independent under the non de plum "Nicholas Worth, Jr." It was later published under his own name in Four Hymns and Some Religious Verses (1910).
Wanted: A Samaritan
Prone in the road he lay,
Wounded and sore bested:
Priests, Levites past that way
And turned aside the head.
They were not hardened men
In human service slack:
His need was great: but then,
His face, you see, was black.