Thursday, October 5th, 1939,
THE SOWER
A Weekly Department of Religious
and Secular Thought Contributed
by REV. JAMES A. TURNER,
Pastor, M. E. Church, Patton, Pa.
A FATHER WHO GIVETH
GOOD THINGS.
“Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you; for every-
one that taketh, receiveth; and he that
seeketh, findeth:; and to him that
Knocketh, it shall be opened. What man
is there of you, whom if his son ask
bread, will he give him a stone? Or
if he ask a fish, will he give him a
serpent? If ye then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts unto your chil-
dren, how much more shall your fa-
ther which is in heaven, give good
things to them that ask Him?”
This is the wonderful passage in
which Jesus enunciates the primary
truth of the Fatherhood of God. This
truth may be called primary because
it is the foundation stone upon which
the whole structure of true religion is
built. Until men could understand the
| meaning of the Fatherhood of God, and
| something of what it implies, they
could hardly obtain any satisfactory
religious experience.
As long as men had believed that
there were many gods, a sound religi-
ous experience was not possible, for
all genuine religious experience is a
search for conscious union with the
One. Many gods must necessarily be
gods of limitation; and as they were al-
ways ,and necessarily, represented as
being in conflict among themselves,
only chaotic thought could follow from
such a belief.
Those who had got beyond that idea
to the concept of the One or True God,
still thought of Him almost universally |
as a kind of Orienetal tyrant-king or
Sultan, owning and governing man
with a rod of iron, on much the same
lines that a capricious human tyrant
might be expected to pursue. The God
of many of the Old Testament writers
is a very jealous, revengeful, and cruel
despot; a sultan whom it is almost im-~
possible to please, implacable in his
anger, often indiscriminate in His ven-
geance. He seems to have more in
common with mankind than men
have with the animals; in fact much
less, for we conceive ourselves to
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and it denied to man anything in com- |
mon with God at all.
In the above scriptural passage, says |
Dr. Emmert Fox, Jesus once and for
all lays the axe to the root of this hor-
rible superstition for those who will
read their Bible with an open mind.
He says here, diefinitely and clearly— |
and He stresses his words in the most |
circumstantial way—that the real re- |
lationship of God and man is that of |
parent and child. {
Here God ceases to be the distant |
potentate who deals with grovelling |
slaves, and becomes the loving Father
of us, His children. It is extremely dif- |
ficult to realize the far reaching im-
portance that this declaration holds |
for the life of the soul. If you will]
read and re-read this section dealing |
alone answers a great many of your |
religious problems. I venture to say |
that you will be considerably surprised |
at the large number of puzzling ques-
tions that it will settle once and for |
all,
The teaching of Jesus concerning the
| Fatherhood of God was original and
unique. In the Old Testament God was
| never addressed at “Father”. Where
references to His Fatherhood are made
| He is referred to as the Father of the
| nation, and not of individuals. Indeed |
this was the reason why Jesus made |
the declaration of the Fatherhood of
God the opening clause of what we |
call the “Lord’s Prayer.” It explains, |
for instance, the tremendous statement |
in Genesis that man is the image and |
liekeness of God.
It is axiomatic, of course, that the |
| offspring must be of the same nature |
and species as the parent; and so if}
God and man are indeed Father and |
child, man—notwithstanding all his |
present limitations, and despite all |
appearances to the contrary—must be |
essentially divine too, and susceptible |
of infinite growth and improvement |
and development up the rising path- |
way of divinity. |
That is to say, as man’s true nature |
— his spiritual character — unfolds, |
which means as he becomes more and |
more conscious of it, he will expand |
in spiritual consciousness until he has |
transcended all bounds of human im- |
agination; onward, and yet onward |
still. It is inreference to this, our glor- |
jous destiny, that as we have already |
seen, Jesus Himself says elsewhere, |
qouting the older. scriptures “I have |
said ye are gods ,and all of you sons |
His point by adding significantly: |
“And the scripture cannot be broken.” |
So, in this passage we are set free |
once and for all from the last link in
the last chain that binds us to alimit- |
ed and degraded destiny. We are the
children of God; and if children, then
sons, and joint heirs with Jesus |
Christ, as Paul says; and as sons of |
God we are the heirs of our Father's
estate, not strangers, or paid servants,
much less chattel slaves. We are sons |
of the house and will one day enjoy |
our inheritance. At the present time |
we find ourselves full of limitations |
and disabilities because we are spirit-
ually but children—minors. Children
are irresponsible, lacking in wisdom |
and experience, and have to be kept |
under control lest their mistakes |
| should entail serious consequences 10 |
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| But as soon as man com age |
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| spiritually, then, as we h seen ab- |
ove, he claims his rights and obtains |
them. “The heir as long as he is a |
child differeth nothing from a servant, |
thongh he be Lord of all, but is under |
tutors and governors.”; but when the |
fullness of time is come, he awakens |
to the Truth and obtains his spiritual
majority.”
He realizes that it is the Voice of |
God Himself that is in his heart, mak-~ |
ing him cry: “Father.” Then at least
he knows that he is the son of a great
King, and that all that his Father has
is his for the using, whether it be
health, or supply, or opportunity, or
beauty, or joy,.or any other of the
thoughts fo God.
ARE DOCTORS KEEPING UP
WITH THE INCRASING AGE
OF THEIR PATIENT GROUP?
Are doctors keeping up with the in-
creasing age «of their patients?
This question was presented before
the 89th annual session of the Medical
Society of the State of Pennsylvanla
at Pittsburgh last week.
Geriatrics is the name for the study
: of conditions of those growing old.
i The word encompasses not only the
normal conditions but also the diseas-
es, their diagnoses and treatment, as
found in older patients.
The population is aging due to fall-
ing birth rate, lessening of infant dea-
ths and an increase in the number of
persons reaching adulthood.
Many persons 60 years of age are
certainly in good health.
But, on the average, in this number
of years of living, the body has un-
dergone changes which will influence
the remaining years.
Older persons have problems of
health quite as specific for them as
are the problems of infancy and adol-
escence.
In the older body the reaction to
disease is different and the symptoms
expressive of this reaction, must be
different.
The older body is different, hence
the signs in normal conditions and in
disease states are changed.
Treatment must fit this changed
and differently reacting older body.
The older patient has a physical ap-
paratus that has been changed by his
activities, his previous illnesses and in-
dividual characteristics.
The familiar sequence of changes
with age may be regarded as normal
because of the universal occurrence. /
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according to the preliminary statistics
The old body works according to WEST VIRGINIA LEADS
standards of its own different from the STATES IN BITUMINOUS for 1938.
Pennsylvania, which in 1931 lost its
generally established levels. C Jan
The physician of today must famil- OAL PRODUCTION {lead to West Virginia as the greatest
oo ) : re {1 poem———— : | bituminous coal producer, still ranked
jarize himself with the geriatric pha-| West Virginia in 1938 again led the | second ,with 77,040,000 tons or about
ses due to the shifting character of nation In the mining of bituminous | 22 per cent of the national total. Penn-
: 1, producing nearly 27 per cent of 1 ia” i 5.
the population. | coal, p rly | sylvania’s production of 46,099,000 tons
The old body has surprising powers. the grand total. This is shown by the | of anthracite during the year, however,
“Bituminous Coal Tables for 1937 and | places it in the lead as the producer
—, 1938” released the other day by the | of all kinds of coal.
ROOMS FOR RENT—Four unfur-| Bituminous Coal Division of the De- | Illinois ranked third with 40,650,000
nished rooms for rent. All modern | partment of the Interior. tons or nearly 12 per cent. Kentucky
conveniences. Mrs. M. S. Yerger, 505| The state produced 92,922,000 tons | followed with 38,496,000 tons, or a little
Palmer avenue, Patton. | of the nation’s grand total of 344,630,000 | more than 11 per cent,