The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-15
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Sept. 16, 1900: Luke xii, 13-:3--The
Rich Fool.

1t is hard for Western folks to understand the
unconventional freedom of a public assembly in
the far East. 1t is a common circumstance FOR
SPEAKER to be interrupted by questions and COM
ments. favorable or unfavorable This incident is
an example man in the audience called out;
Teacher tell my brother to share the property
with me-" Easy TO see where his mind was,
LANCE says. while Jesus speaking Of
heavenly things He had been broodng
worldly and Arnot He to preaching
that He might do stroke of business when il
was done Jesus phenomenal discretion has no
finer e<emplifcation. He could not be pulled out
OF Ills sphere. He was judge in chancery. II
not for Him to partition estate. But with
ccnsummate skill He does anvil himself of this in
terruption to enunciate a rule of life which
would insure universal equity in monetary
matters. If His interlocutor stayed TO listen
Jesus enriched him than IL He had OBJ
tanned for him his share of the property in dis
prte. The Masters sententious style is nobly IL
Illustrated in that word, "A mans true life does
not depend upon his wealth." a saying which
He Immediately expands into a parable. The
rich man, whose portrait He. paints with few
strokes. thinks only OF holding his wealth. He
shows the poverty of his soul in that he thinks
the only disposition he make OF his larger
harvests is to put them into larger grain pits.
1t never so much as occurs to him to give
his surplus to the hungry. And he cannot
take mis- material possessions with him into the
immaterial world. what sorry plight he is in
when he is unexpectedly summoned therel All
that be carried into the spirit world is
lodged in the spirit. But this mans spirit is
decked with single grace. His apparen:
wealth is real poverty. How poor rich man
car be- But the converse also is true poor
man be rich. The substance OF truly rich
life is the evolution I'm IL of good traits OF char
acter Material possessions are evanescent. They
are unportabe to heaven. Graces in the spirit.
on the contrary, may be said TO be already laid
up in heaven because of the certainty with
which they will be carried there.
THE TEACHERS LANTERN.
The banker. Peter Hayden, once sitting in
church white column. During the sermon
he abstractedly took out his pencil. and did
in compound interes; the column There
is mental arithmetic expression on the faces
of many during divine service. who do not
trely forget themselves as to literally go TO
ciphering. The Of this incident is not
entirely lonesome fellow. The public
speaker who can use an interruption TO point a
moral has a peculiar advantage Sam Jones
once said 10 an audience alarmed by a fiaring
lamp: Don't mind it, It's only doing what lot
OF you folks are doing-'cutting up too much O.
a shine for your caliber' Jesus Illus
trates the nonpolitical. muscular character of
His church and ministry He decidedly repels
the temptation to enter sphere which lies so
far from that which he appointed to-"
He mingles little with the controversies Of
the Jews with the political affairs OF the
Romans" One OF the Rothschilds had
just completed and furnished a palatial resi-
dence when a friend called inspect IT, In
parting at the vestibule the friend said: "A
man with such palace must be happy. The
baron replied. deprecatingly and bitterly. Me
happy?' IL Judas was present and
heard this parable. his darling sim
tainly received deadly thrust. Jesus
came not to be judge concerning inheritances
but a Savior from sins. and the sin OF avarice
in particular. The contrast between the
soIiloquy OF the fool and the judgment Of Col