Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-16
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Notes on the Lesson for March
18-"The Son Re-.
jected"

| DAILY READINGS.
M.-Ihe Connection. Matt 81: 17-3322
| The Lesson.
| VA Parallel lisa. 5: Ii
Israel Rejected. Rom. IL: 7-21..
| F.-Contrary Israel Thess 2: 14-16
! s.-The Top Stone Zach 4: II
\ s-The Precious Stone | Pet 2:1-S.
| BREAKFAST VERSES
| M.-sBuild thou the walls. Psalm 81: Is
| livery plant" Matt. IS: 33
M-aNo fear Of God" Rom 5: ls
I-"When the Son of man cometh." Luke
E.-sDespised and rejected" lisa. $3.50.
| S-aHighly exalted" Phil. $50
| S.-sHe shall have dominion" Psalm 72: s.
! INTRODUCTORY.
lhey VIII reverence my SON" That was
/ the last word spoken as the envoy extraOrdi-
nary LETT the court Of heaven. s:This is the
heir; come let us kill him and let us seize on
his inheritance" This was the greeting he
received among his own of earth. 1t i. a les
son which, first of all, makes its appeal to the
Jew, but which, with equal emphasis, calls
out to every son of Adam to whom the great
redemption is sent May this stone rejected
4 OF the builders of old be made for many
heart through the study of the lesson before
~, by Gods grace, the head Of the corner"
Then shall church and Sunday school have
occasion, gladly, to say: aThis is the Lords
! doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes" Tho
scene IL laid in Jerusalem; the time, shortly
alter the trlumphal entry.
WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES.
| rear another parable 1t was truths con-
stralnt They had heard, blind leaders of the
1EMal !n, more than suited their fancy already.
With lily suppressed indignation they had
not forceful picture being sRetched of the
Publicans and harlots going into the kingdom
9be; them Now comes the
slbly for turning away in anger. But that
mid, yet stringent utterance held them,
Hear ye another parable" It is summons
to scorning world. Another parable there
colors still to show it's wre.ched guilt and
undoneness before God Heaven grant that
some who have, passed by all other voices
! may hearken at last to the serious admoni-
| tons of this 9otheE parable
There acas a certain, householder. Learn
lesson !9 in teaching; 1t is the servicea bleness
OF illustration, the value of story-lessons.
Christ set us the plain example. When His
comprehension, or, as here. vindictive, He
told them q story, and gave them the whole
some truth in the story. 1t was probably the
only thing that could have held those incensed
pharisees at this time Had He said at once.
erably destroyed" their fingers would have
| been in their ears He said, instead, sThers
was once man, q householder. They stopped
10 listen, and the lesson was driven home 1t
Is the practical testimony of all successful
teachers and preachers. Count Tolstoi is as
tonlshing two continents with his adroi'ness as
an instructor. He enforces occult truth by,
tales of simple life We got in behind the
curtains with successful pulpit orator the
other day. His study-table was full of clip.
pings and markings. His every day book was
2 thesaurus Of illustrations. Remember the
certain tai =, househ sch you help it?
planted the vineyard, had hedged it about,
had equipped 1t with appliances for work,
mad given it protective apparatus, insured it
against loss, as it were-he lets it out as his
we look at life in this aspect Whose planning
is it? whose planting? whose guarding and.
protecting? whose furnishing and equipping?
Our own? By no means. We have it as ten
sponsible for our use of it and for the returns
1t makes. For tits not simply a rental ten
ancy at will. It is a stewardship, q feudal in
cumbancy, if you please. Wehold our so-called
possessions simply as almoners and servants
OF the real owner. He may at any time callus
to account
Into a far country 1t is token of divine
wisdom. The Lord of the vineyard throws
hls servants test Stt on their own responsibility 1t
nifty for knavery, it grants also occasion for
true faithfulness and loyalty. Without doubt
the best scheme for the development Of char
acteris this with the Master, so to speak, sin
happiest mentors Pate1nalism in govern
ment and sentinelism in schools are not the
most admirable of schemes, judged from re-
suits. That teacher who lnculcates good
principles and then leaves the pupils to in
dividual conscientiousness, and that nation
which cultivates in its subjects individual
nearly the divine ideal. Yet be be it al
| ways borne IN mind that the .far country
| 10 never SO far but that the Master may at
| any time return
The time Of tie .t,uit. Everything has its
fruit-time. Every gift, every talent, every
| possession. God gives us the use Of these
some form he expects return. Every capacity
| Of man should, in its due mode and measure,
make Tor righteousness Remember the
fruit-time toward God. brother, and remem-
ally, not meaniy. sWhere Is the D twenty
five cents I gave you last week?' said the
surly curmudgeon of husband to his meek
ly petitioning consort. Does your not wholly
way when the collection-box looms upon yous
It is bad mood for fruit-tme. Suppress it
Deacon Willard tells of an old brother, fight
ing grim battle with the demon of covetous-
ness, who, when appealed to for worthy
will give $780, A moment later his faith
failed him and he said $780, The grace
still farther declining, he reduced it to $50
and at last to $40. Then recovering himself,
with an apprehension Of whittier he was
drifting, he put it down $500, with the words:
sNow, old nature, you squirm"
"7hat they might reeeiye the traits Of IT."
Very well, then, the minister has his creden-
tails. He comes as the Lords fruit gatherer.
Even though he says with Paul, Il seek not
yours, but you, he is gathering fruit still
fruit unto life eternal Receive the servant
for his Masters sake, Give unto him, even
of earthly, store, as unto the Lord. The
writer had once price-mark put upon his
humble ministrations in rather unexpected
and bewildering way. It was in frontier
community, where objection was made to the
ordinary collection, and periodical subscrip-.
tons were taken instead. A. certain blunt
spoken and not overly pious squire was ap-,
preached by the collector, and when asked to
contribute to the maintenance of divine SER
vice he blurted out, s1here! take that; I
heard him once" And he put fifty cents in
to the petitioners hand. a sorry occupation
that OF the clergy, on such an apprehension
Of it.
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