OOIIT BROOD TOO <
MUCH. SAYS ElilS
Many Foolish Persons Do Not Ac
cept Christ Because of
Petty Squabbles
O'lie International Sunday School Ltes
hoii For March 1 Is "Trusting In
Rlclies and Trusting in God." Ijuke
12.13-34.
(By William T. Ellis)
We smile when we read of the uti
bn lanced man who tries to enter the
White. House to have some fancied
wrong to himself redressed; or who
attempts to get a hearing for his
grievance from King George. Any
body who broods too much over his
own wrongs Is likely to lose his bal
ance. Sonic bereaved parents spond
all their time in grief, forgetting
the nobler uses of sorrow. Persons
who have lost property become soured
with life. A man disappointed i'.t
love so far loses his sense of relative
values that he commits suicide.
Such a ligure emerges in this story.
The great Teacher was addressing
crowds east of the Jordan. His
theme was the highest that could en
gnge mortal mind. Suddenly, a man
from out of the multitude claimed
his attention with, "Master, bid my
brother divide the inheritance with
me." All that Jesus had said about
inheriting eternal life had gone clear
over his head. Ho was interested
only In the little Inheritance left by
his fathor, wherein his brother had
wronged him. A family squabblo
meant more to him than all the af
fairs of the kingdom of heaven.
How human and up-to-date it all
is! This man won't become a Chris
tian because he does not like one of
the officers of the church. The other
is outside the fold because he thinks
that the rich men inside are hpyo
crltes. A neighborhood feud splits a
congregation. As in tho case of this •
aggrieved man of old, the ocean of
divine truth is measured by a tin
cup of personal Interests.
A Religion of Rules
This rather pathetic figure of the
man who was thinking about prop
erty when he should have been
thinking about his soul: because his
life was in the grip of goods be
came tho occasion for a great enun
ciation. Christ plainly declared that
He was not a legal adjudicator, a
maker or enforcer of regulations.
He does not usurp the functions of
the civil courts.
Despite many current attempts so
to interpret Hiin, Jesus is not a claw
Christ. He does not take Bides in in
dividual conflicts. He 1B not arrayed
against the poor or against the rich.
His is a religion of spirit, of prin
ciples and of universal truth. All
attempts to reduce Christianity to a
set of rules have been failures. The
Christ teaching would settle the
man's property problem; but he him
self must apply it. Else the next
case, somewhat different in its facts,
would draw wholly erroneous con
elusions from this Judicial ruling
Because Jesus enunciated principles
that hold true everywhere and for
ever, His gospel fits , the twentieth
century as readily as the first, and
America as naturally as Asia. The
Koran, on the other hand, is full of
minute prescriptions, which cannot
bo either accepted or fulfilled In our
modern urban civilization.
The example of Jesus in this in
stance is a good one for preachers
and teachers. They should avoid
eiding with parties or factions. The
minister is not a meddler in temporal
affairs, but he is the messenger of
vital truth which has an immediate
bearing upon every one of life's social
problems. Thus, Christ's teaching, if
accepted, can settle every labor dis
pute; but Christ's ministers should
not become partisans therein.
A Father Confessor's Confession
The incident served Jesus as a text
for a discourse against covetousness,
■which is one of the sins of good peo
ple. Francis Xavier, the famous
missionary, reveals a striking tend
ency from his long experience as a
father confessor. He writes:—"l
have had many people resort to me
for confession. The confession «f
every sin that I have ever known or
heard of, and of sins so foul that I
never dreamed of, has been poured
into my ear; but not one person has
ever confessed to me the sin of covet
ousness." Bishop Wllmer says:—
"One man anly has ever expressed to
mo the fear that he should become
covetous; and It is a suggestive fact
that he was the most generous man
that I had ever known."
The New Testament does not
inince words in dealing with covet
ousness. It calls the sin idolatry.
The love of money—which Paul calls
"the root of all evil"—is a peril
threatening all classes. This Is no
occasion for railing at the rich. A
person with but ten cents may be
as covetous as one with ten million.
Covetorsness is a state of mind.
While it is a danger of the day, it
was also a peril two thousand years
ago. Covetousness is to be dreaded
just as truly as malice and lust and
drunkenness. "Thrift" and "pru
dence" are the fair words under
which covetousness oftenest hides;
hut love of money is covetousness,
and a sin.
Having and Being Had
Some people have money and
money has some people. The mirror
has not yet been invented which will
reveal to a person what he would
really amount to if stripped of his
wealth and all that wealth brings.
There are many pauper souls living
in palaces and waited upon by but
lers. The latest cut of evening
clothes often covers a soul of atomio
dimensions. The notion that wealth
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which is receiving Bevere jnra in our
day. To be merely a rich man, and
nothing more, no longer establishes
a person's position.
Sometimes God laughs at man.
This sort of spectacle arouses his
amused contempt, and he exclaim*,
grimly, "Thou foolish onet" Such
is the point of the story which Jesus
to'ld to Ulustrute the futility of
wealth's reliance upon wealth. A
rather blatant, puffed-up egotist,
who, like millions since, thought his
own merit had made the earth pro
duce bountifully, strutted about com
placently, spilling perpendicular pro
nouns all over the landscape, and lay
ing out a boastful scheme for Idle
ness, luxury and merrimeht. He had
got the better of the world; It wds
at his feet; he would enjoy it at
his ease.
"Thou foolish one! This night is
thy soul required of thee!" Thus the
disconcerting verdict of God. He had
gc.-)ds, which God asked not; but of
soul, which God demanded.' he had
less than little. If he had put his
wealth into his soul, or into his fol
lcwmen's souls, he might have had
something of a showing to make
when he appeared before God's judg
ment Beat. Here we find the Scrip
tural original of Kipling's "Tomlin
son." Was It Franklin who said
"Empty thy purse Into thy head?'
A starved soul in an overfed body
is a spectacle which all good angels
view with mingled sorrow and con
tempt.
One of the Day's Big Problems
That blistering word "fool," which
seldom fell from the lips of the gentle
Nazarene, sticks to the person whose
projects arc all for getting rich and
for safeguarding tho future by more
money, instead of being "rich to
ward God."
Why is the rich man's son KO ofton
a spoiled imitation of a man? Be
cause all the parental projects for
him have taken the form of spend
lng money. Tho dreams of fathers
for their sons are built on a founda
tion of gold. That Is why J. Camp
bell White, In his missionary ad
dress, cries, "The rich man's son has
not a fair chance nowadays." The
community and the world face the
loss of a host of youth who should
be great assets. Instead, they are
money-made, money-mad and money-
.»o men of to-day must cease to
fear poverty for our children. Pru
dence and foresight have deteriorated
Into covetousness and cowardice
Let us give our sons character and
efficiency— I Wen If the giving takes
half the time we now spend In
money-making—and we may trwt
them anywhere In the future, and
trust the future with them. As we
look about we see how the loss cf
many a man's fortune has really been
the making of his eons and daugh
ters. Shall we not benueath more
life and less money to our children ?
The old darkey slave who had eaten
his master's poultry made a philoso
phic answer when he said, "Massa,
youse got less chicken, but youse
got more nigger."
The choice between goods and Go-1
Is going on forever. Jesus pointed
out the peril of property; It has a
tendency to blur or blind the spl--
Itual vision. Would that we might
be consumed by such a hunger and
thirst after God Himself as would de
liver us from all lesser ambitions.
G. H. Morrison tersely gives the rea
son for this longing for God: "W«
do not crave for God because He Is
glorious. We do not crave for God
because He Is sovereign. We are
.lust homesick, that is the meaning of
it. We crave for God because He Is
jour home."
Editor You must remember that
poetry is a gift.
The Poet lt is: you can't cell it
nowadays.—The Idler.
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Gettysburg, Pa., Feb. 27. — Forty
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