The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-24
In the Religious World
WHAT THE CHURCH FOLK ARE THINKING ABOUT
AMI DOING
Sunday School Lesson and Young Peoples Topics.
y School Lesson and Young Peoples Topics.

ago. Co~vetousness is 10 be dreaded
just as truly IS malice and lust and
drunkenness. Thrift" and "pru-
dence" are the fair words under
which c~ovetousness oftenest hides.
but love Of money is c~ovetousness,
and a sin.
Having and Being Had.
Some people have money and
money has some people. The mirror
has not yet been invented which will
reveal to a person what he would
really amount to if stripped of his
wealth and all hat wealth brings.
Ihere are many pauper souls living
in palaces and waited upon by but
lers. The latest cut Of eyenins
clothes often covers a soul Of atomic
dimensions The notion that wealth
atoneS for all is a pernicious one
which is receiving severe pars in our
day. To be merely a rich man. and
nothing more. no longer establishes
a persons position.
Sometimes God laughs at man.
This sort Of spectacle -arouses his
amused contempt, and he exclaims.
grlmly, Thou foolish one." Such
is the point of the story which Jesus
told to illustrate the futility Of
weaitns reliance upon wealth. A
p0lLcu- up 6SOllSI, VINO
IKE mllllons since, thought his own
merit had made the earth produce
pountlfully, strutted about compla-
Gently, splillng perpendicular pro-
nouns all over the landscape, and Law
ing out a bOastful scheme for idle
ness luxury and merriment. He had
got the better of the world: it was
d. MS 1eet; he would enjoy it at
his ease. -
Thou foolish one, This night Is
Iny soul required of thee,' Thus the
oisconcerting verdict Of God. He had
soods, which God asked not: but Of
sou which God demanded, he had
less than little. If he had put his
wealth into his soul, or into his fell
loW-men's soul, he might have had
something Of a showing to make whan
ne appeared before Gods Judgment
seat: Here we find the Scr%iptural
0rlslnal of Kipling's "Tomlinson.,
was 1T Franklin who said, Empty
thy purse into thy head?" A starved
SOU IN an overfed body is a spectacle
winch all good angels view with min
gled sorrow and contempt.
One of the Days Big Problems
That blistering word fool which
seldom fell from the lips Of the gen
tle Nazarene, sticks to the person
whose projects are all for getting rich
and for safeguarding the future by
more money, instead of being rich
towards God" 800
Why is the rich mans son so often
a spoiled imitation of a man.? Re-
cause all the parental projects for
MN have taken the form Of spending
money. n dreams of fathers for
tnelT sons are built on a foundation
OF goId. That is why J. Campbell
Wnlte, IN his missionary address.
CRIES: The rich mans son has not a
lar chance nowadays" The loss Of q
nost OF youth who should be great as
sets. Instead, they are monev-mads
money mad, and money-marred.
we men of today must cease to fear
poverty for our children. ruben
ana foresight AVE deteriorated into
covetousness and cowardice. Let ne
give u sons character and efficiency
even II the giving takes half the
'hne we now spend in money-making
ana we may trust them anywhere
IN n future, and trust he f,,t,,re
WIN them. AS we look about we see
now the loss Of many a mans fortune
mas really been the making OF his sons
n daughters. Shall we not he
more life and less money to
u nlidren? The old darkey slave
who had eaten his masters poultrv
maze a philosophical answer when he
salo: Massa, youse got less chicken
puI youse got more niger"
The choice between goods and God
IS gong on forever. Jesus pointed
out the peril of property; it has a
tendency to blur or blind the spiritual
vision. Would hat we might be con
sumed by such a hunger and thirst af-
Ter God Himself as would deliver us
from all lesser ambitions. G.. II Nor
rlson tersely gives the reason for this
longing for God: I'VE do not crave
LOT God because He is glorious. we
do not crave for God hecausa IT,
sovereign. We are just home-sick
That is the meaning of it. We crave
Tor God because He is our home.n
THE RELIGION OF TO-DAY
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