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WHOLEWORLOSDIES
POVERTY KND WEM.TH
"Rich Man and Lazarus" Is Topic
of International Sunday
School Lesson
NO DAY FOR PESSIMISM
Ellis Says Talk of Violent Revolu
tion Is to Be Taken With
Grain of Salt
Tlu* International Sunday School Les
son For May t7 Is "The Rich Man
and Lazarus."—Luke 1«: 11, 15
19-31.
(By William T. Ellis)
With deepening anxiety, thought
ful men and women, the whole world
around, are studying the problem of
poverty and wealth. It is our day's
gravest perplexity. In it lurks more
of menace than in any other present
issue. Selfish and foolish partisans of
l»oth sides are daily making blunders
which increase the dangers of the
situation. Careless words are flying
about, like sparks in a powder maga
zine. Beyond question, it is the clear
social, patriotic and religious duty of
every sober-minded man and woman
to give the most serious thought of
which ho or' she is capable to this
question, especially with a view to its
application to personal duty.
No lesson could be more timely than
this one upon the rich man and Laza
rus, for that parable, related by Jesus
in answer to the sneers of the rich
churchmen of His day, is the world's
best known and most powerful por
trayal of the dramatic contrast be
tween wealth and poverty. No orator,
poet, painter or author has drawn the
ever-present problem in such gripping
power as this parable of Dives and
Lazarus. The story itself should first
be reread with carefulness, as told by
Dr. Luke:—
The Haron and tlio liefrgar
"And the Pharisees, who were lov
ers of money, heard all these things;
and they scoffed at him. And lie
said unto them, Ye .are they that jus
tify yourselves in the sight of men;
but God knoweth jour hearts; for
that which is exalted among men is
an abomination in the sight of God.
"Now there was a certain rich man,
and he was clothed in purple and tine
linen, faring sumptuously every day:
and a certain beggar named Lazarus
was laid at his Kate, full of sores, and
desiring to be fed with the crumbs
that fell from the rich man's table;
yea, even the dogs came and licked
his sores. And it came to pass that
the. beggar died, and that he was car
ried away by the angels unto Abra
ham's bosom: and the rich man also
died, and was buried. And in Hades
lie lifted up his eyes, being in tor
ments. and seeth Abraham afar off.
iiind Lazarus in his bosom. And he
cried and saith, Father Abraham, have
mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that
he may dip the tip of his finger in
water, and cool my tongue; for I am
in anguish in this flame. Brit Abra
ham said. Son. remember that thou
in thy lifetime recelvest thy good
things, and Lazarus in like mannerl
levil things: but now here he is com-I
forted, and thou art in anguish. And
I besides all this, between us and you
[there is a great gulf fixed, that they
'that would pass from hence to you
may not be able, and that none may
ero»s over from thence to us. And
he said. I pray thee therefore, father,
that thou wouldst send him to my
father's house; for I have five breth
ren; that he may testify unto them,
lest they also come into this place of
torment. But Abraham saith, They
have Hoses and the prophets; let
them hear them. And he said, Nay,
father Abraham: hut if one go to
them from the dead, they will repent.
And he said unto him, if they hear not
Moses and the prophets, neither will
they be persuaded, if one rise from
the dead."
An Oriental Picture
We have to know something of the
Orient, in order to appreciate the high
colors in this picture, for, thank God,
the Occident has got beyond the ac
tual conditions here described, and
the East is on the way to more Chris
tian usages. Open, flaunting, boastful
nnd lavish display of wealth and
power is typical of the East. Dives is
true to type. Even more character
istic is .he beggar. I have seen ab
solutely naked men, diseased and
twisted, grovelling on the bare high
ways In the winter of North China.
Words fail to describe the awful con
ditions, which I myself have witnessed
among these creatures, worse oft than
Lazarus in balmy Palestine; even
worse off than a stray cur would be
permitted to remain in this land.
Let us take what comfort we can
out of a bad situation by remembering
that the Christian world has' made
and is making immense progress be
yond the conditions of this parable.
Consider the "lazar-houses" and
"lazarettoes," which take their name
from this one poor leper <as he prob
ably was), and the multitude of other
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in need.
Also should we bear in mind the
truth that we have reached a stage
wherein Dives (for the word is merely
the Latin for "a rich man") must
justify to the world his stewardship; a
well-advertised multi-millionaire hav
ing given currency to the proposition
that "it is a disgrace to die rich.''
The inequity of social conditions
should not blind us to the tremendous
strides that are being made in our
own time toward social justice. It
would be less than fair to forget the
host of men and women of wealth
who are genuine lovers of mankind,
and whose deepest passion, and con
stant endeavor, is to administer their
possessions as a trust for their fellow
men. This is no day for pessimism,
even in contemplating so grave a sit
uation as the present status of wealth
and poverty.
Shall Dives and Lazarus Change
Places?
Many persons are predicting a vio
lent revolution in our own land and
time, a bloody struggle to overthrow
King Plutos and to install King Demos
in his stead. Ido not fear this. There
is a saving sense of sanity in this
western world, due largely to long
exercise of the power of self-govern
ment, which looks askance at extrem
ists and preachers of violence. Our
Anglo-Saxon regard for personal and
property rights acts as a brake upon
precipitate action. There are no such
dearly-marked class lines as created
the revolutions of Europe. And un
der the present form of government,
it is proving possible for society to
correct ages-old evils by the orderly
processes of law.
On every side, the present horizon
shows huge portents, which indicate
that Dives is to be retained and lim
ited, and made to act In a juster and
more brotherly fashion; and that
Lazarus Is to bo given a fairer oppor
tunity. It does not comport with the
twentteth century's conception of
manhood that any man, however poor,
should lie suffering as a beggar at an
other's gate, dependent upon the lat
ter's whim for sustenance. Our com
mon sense tells us, however, that to
reverse the relative positions of Dives
and Lazarus is no permanent way out
of the difficulty; for Lazarus, Jr., often
becomes a very offensive Dives, and
Dives, Jr., a poor type of medicant.
The noisily exploited program for a
looting of those who have, to the en
richment of those who have not, is not
sound, by economic, social or Scrip
tural standards.
Taking Two Worlds Into Account
I The wonderful story told by Jesus,
I in the race of the powerful party who
were turning up their aristocratic
noses at Him and His followers, be
cause of their poverty—quite as the
'idle rich sneer at the poor as if lack
iof money wero a sufficient evidence
lof their unfitness —brought to bear a
mighty factor in the problem of social
inequality. Jesus condemned Dives,
of course; unbrotherly wealth cannot
stand for a moment In the clear light
of Christ's truth.
But Jesus said, in effect: "Take a
li»ng look. Nothing Is settled until it
id settled finally; and In all questions
between man and man (which are
also questions between man and God)
another life than this must be taken
into account. Two worlds figure in all
of God's reckonings. Dives has a mo-
'mentarv advantage and Lazarus a mo
lmentary advantage, but let me
draw aside the curtain and show you
the next act." .
! Here we have the principle, often
perverted by wealth in an attempt to
avoid present duty, but a vital prin
ciple, none the less, that heaven en
ters into earth's affairs. The eternal
God is going to square all accounts,
and he has a long time in which to do
it. The offenses of time must be reck
oned with in eternity. Dives, without
any advantage from his wealth or so
cial position, must stand before the
judgment seat of God. As Henry
Martyn said of the rich man in the
parable, "Had he remembered on
earth, he would not have been called
to remember in hell."
| If the parable teaches anything, it
teaches the existence of a hereafter,
with an ultimate reward or punish
ment for the deeds done in the flesh.
Definitions may differ; but the fact of
a conscious eterntty for mortal spirits
is inwrought in the teachings of Jesus.
It makes for philosophical breadth
and patience to contemplate ..his
earthly span as only an infinitesimal
arc of the circle of our real life.
Is Poverty a Passjiort to Heaven?
Because Dives went to hell and
Lazarus to heaven, some shallow in
terpreters havo assumed that the rich
are doomed to perdition and the poor
destined to paradise. God is no snob.
He does not award men's future ac
cording to their rating in earth's so
cial registers. It was not because of
his beggary and sores that Lazarus
found rest in tho bosom of Abraham,
who in life \tas a wealthy sheikh.
Lazarus %\ on to glory because of his
faith in God: he stored up his riches
in heaven. The miseries of earth had
but led him to prize more dearly the
spiritual Inheritance.
The doom of Dives was due to his
disregard of his fellow man and of
God. lie had been false to both. Like
millions of kindred fools, he had
trusted to his wealth and power and
earthly state to provide him a high
place in two worlds. He has failed
to be a helper of men. Therefore
the keenest suffering in his eternal
punishment was to learn that his sense
of values had been all wrong; and
that those whom he had despised on
earth sat high in heaven. As Thomas
Hood sang:
"The blind and the cripple were there.
And the babe that pined for bread;
And the homeless man, and the widow
poor »
Who begged to bury her dead, —
The naked, alas! that I might have
clad,
The famished I might have fed."
Tho Present Warning
I If there be any thick-headed pluto
crat who thinks that before real harm
can come to him and his money bags
ho will receive some special warning,
he has but to read this parable of
Jesus. Its clear closing teaching Is
that there is law and light enough now
to lead men to do right. No special
! emissaries from heaven or hell could
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brother. But his social service idea
came too late. God gives no second
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Jesus told His immortal story from
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