Help someone easily deceived by reporter (7)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

From the hymn “Christ of the upward way”: “And leap at once with kind and help­ful deed, To the sure suc­cour of a soul in need.” We with a naughtier eye would nod sagely and hint that there’s no surer sucker than a soul in need. The same idea is going on here, the other way round, the sound of someone easily deceived, SUCKER (by reporter) producing our answer.