The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-26

INTRODUCTION Scripture assigned by
the lesson committee is not sufficient TO present
the subject in its proper light. We have thrre'
fore added a few verses. The word parable llier'
ally signifies, TO put one thing before or bes &c
another This mode of teaching was held IN hgh
favor among the ancicnts, because IL was a torin
Of illustration that excited thought, awakened
plcasuiahlc emotion aud helped the memory.
II was alike agreeable and profitable TO the
learned and unlearncd There Is a harmony be-
tween the natural and the spiritual worlds, the
former being a witness to the latter All lovers
OF truth readily recognize these harmonics and
tho force of arguments derived thcrcirom. To
them the things on earth arc copies Of things in
heaven. Christ moved in the midst OF what
seemed a wornout world, but He made it tell out
the secrets of mans being. lie made it answer
with strange and marvellous correspondence TO
another invisible world, TO help to the birth
great thoughts Of the heart, long struggling TO be
born The parallels Of Jesus display His ac-
quaintancc with the scnsuous and the super
sensuous realm and enable men to pass more
readily from one TO the other.
SOWING.-Tn His first parable Oversees 1.23)
Jesus had made His teaching turn upon the char
actcr OF the soil. A man had gone forth with
good seed, but the product varied with the har.
vest, according to the ground upon which it fell.
In the parable before us lie presents the same
man faithfully dcspositing good seed, presumably
in good soil. His work was we'll done, and he
repaired 10 his homc 10 rest, eXiecting that III
due course of time he would reap Cversc 2i).
But when the night came on, while he sum.
hercd his enemy came stoalthily into the field
Having sown tares in the same ground where the
wheat had been cast he went away (verse 25).
The act was wholly unknown. IL was done out o
pure mischief. There could be no benefit or pleas
ure to him who did it, except the pleasure de-
| rived from the reflection that an injury hat
| been done 1t is strange condition of human
nature when a man takes delight in annoying an
other The spirit is evil in the extreme.
| GROWlNG.-Bot the wheat and the tares ger
| minated. being Influenced by the same mostur,
and. the same sunlight and nurtured in the sam,
| soil (vcrse 26) For considerable time no on,
could have distinguished the one from the other
Even the practiccd eye of the farmer was dc
ccivcd Looking over the field he must hav
| thought that the grain was unusually thick
| thrifty and promising, and he may have con
| graduated himself on the abundant yield. Bu
| aiterwmlc, when the grain heads out, the tare
| are known. Hateful and nolious weeds the,
| were. Nolncy, writing Of the darncl, viii 8,
probably our Saviour had in mind, SAYS he expert
enced i'll effects from eating its seeds q Travl
| i:063. The inmates of the Shcffcd woIkhous
were attacked some years ago with serious symp
| toms, supposed to he produced by their oat
meal having been adultcrated with lodlum, whic
il very much the same as the darnc of Arabia
| (Eng. CycD. II was, therefore, very great dis
| appointment to the owner Of the field to dis
cover this weed among his grain, and his serv
| ants expressed their surprise, knowing that goo
seed had been cast into the ground verse so.