South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-16
The Parable Of the Talents an
Unto him that hath shall be giUen and he shall album
dance but from him that hath be taken aouay euen that
1UhiCh he hath-MaH 25: g.

TT is question Of talents-and Of stevvardships
Infinite wisdom Is so foolish as to expect
more of man than his endowments are cap
able of producing. And it expects no less. 1t
expects II. too IN the way of service as well as
production.
/ hrift brings Its rewards but also brings it's
burdens and responsibilities.
When Heaven endowed you with certain tai
ents II made OF you steward of those talents
not to be employed exclusively to your personal
and selfish ends.-but in the cause Of Heaven.
Unto him that hath shall be given and he shall
have abundance yes, but unto whomsoever
much 10 given. of him much will be required
You become steward, a trustee incident to
the proprietorship.
Christ. the author of this school of social and
political science. was the greatest economist and
advocate of social and industrial justice, that has
been known to time
Through twenty centuries He has been
writing it or the BRAIN heart and soul of man. not
always visibly but writing away-an evolution of
the spirit that will one day redeem the world
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(WHICH is by way of preface-and now by
w way of introduction. Christianity is the
school of Christ it is nothing. Christendom
should either preach Christianity and practice it
or else admit the hypocrisy,-and quit
Christ denounced hypocrites beyond anything
else under the hypocrites, pharsees. scribes.
lawyers-sayers OF the law but not doors; and be
trayers of the law when the doing of it might be
inconvenience.
He Iikened them unto vhited sepulchers out
wardly beautiful but inwardly full of dead men
bones.
He was not the founder Of Christianity as
theology That was St Paul's job. The job of
bringing that theology back to earth and practi-
Calling it, belonged to St. James
Christ Exemplar. He set the pace.
The others, Paul. James. and on down to. well.
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only been trying to explain the whences why's
and wherefores
Sometimes, too the explanations have served
to befog befuddle and mslead mayhap with oc-
oasonal intent, rather than to enghten or uplift
quite as our socalled statesmen now and then
unable to distinguish between fundamental truth
and their funny-bones. have turned pettifoggers
and demagogues and played their game for
private political advantage.
A recent sermon from the pull pit of one of the
wealthy churches of the middle west employing
the parable of the talents as a text comes within
this category patently-peing significant of
tendency of Christianity in this land.-as to pro-
woke refutation.
Christ never intended His parable of the tai
ents should read out of existence His mandate
with reference to the rich man and the camel-or
establish the divine right of capital exploit the
less fortunate.
Such a doctrine is an appropriation of
Nietzscheism-a revival of the gospel Of sur
viva of the httest' by the application of might
as right.-well enough and good for Prussian
autocracy. but bad for American democracy
Even the politicians haven't as yet taken to
placing the dollar above the man--at least in
open pronunciamentos.-andt the Christ who was
friend of the poor, whose pull pit was the noun
tainside. and who broke bread with beggars and
slept under BUSH must have plugged his ears
and sighed deep groan of relief when that trav-
esty upon His gospel IN His name led up to the
benediction
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