Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-25

| Then there will be plenty of time to
separate the tares from the wheat. In
the meantime let them grow and do not
worry yor head about it! But why"
we ask. The nature of the tare sug-
gests one answer to the question. The
tare when it springs from the ground
cannot be distinguished from the
wheat. 1t is only after it has grown
to it's full height and the heads begin
to form within the wheat that there
Is any sharp difference. Anyone who
attempted to pull up the tares. before
this time would be as apt to pull up
wheat as he would tares. | remember
wondering when I first went to New
England at the presence of so many
rhododendron shrubs on the lawns.
They looked rather homely and I'M
promising to me. If | had had my way,
l would have cut them down. But
the time came when they were a blaze
of beauty and color, then / was glad
that the world was not made up of
fools like myself who thought they
could tell the differences between
wheat and tares; between good and
evil. The world would be in a sorry
plight if God would turn all his serv-
ants loose today with the charge. Go
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seems to you to be evil.
1.-THE thought also suggests itself in
this passage that even if We could tell
| good from evil, we would do an infin-
tie amount of damage to the good in
| our efforts to root up evil. Life is so
| bound together into a single unit that
it is impossible to use violence upon
one part of il without affecting the
whole. A small boy one made a Wig
| orous attempt to find out how many
| eggs there were under a sitting hen.
His efforts only resulted in him get
ting several vigorous pecks. At last
he determined to arrive at his goal by
| violence, SO he set fire to the nest.
He got the hen off the nest. but he
burned down the barn with her. Thus
| our efforts to arrive at perfection
often bring catastrophe on our head.
Moses in making the laws of his peO-
pie was forced to suffer many things
| because of the hardness of their hearts.
We must suffer some known evil to
| exist In the world because Of the hard
ness Of peoples hearts. The violence
which would be necessary to dislodge 1t
would be as apt to kill the patient as
to cure him. There is a Judas in every
human organization. In our impa-
thence we want to cast him out. But
Christ did not. He left him to the
harvest time.
Harvest Time for Patience
1.-THE coming Of this harvest time
is the grounds for our patience. For
the wheat is going to grow in spite
of the tares. Goodness is eternal.
Character will be conserved. In many
moments of encouragement when all
the world seemed to be against them.
the disciples must have thought of
this parable: At times when they
could see only the tares in the field;
The memory of their Master called
to their mind that there was also
wheat which would come to fruition
if they tainted not. This parable
ought to be constantly in the minds
of all people who have earnestly and
sincerely labored to attain any great
end in life. Even though there efforts
seem to be in vain; the field has not
gone to weeds. As sure as the night
follows the day the harvest time of
joyful gathering will some.
1.-THE conclusion of the parable of
the tares and the whole teaching of
the parable of the drag net
our question as to the relation of good
and evil in a different way. 1t brings
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the present, in the end there is a
separation. Nature does not root out
the weak and undesirable. 1t simply
allows them to grow, knowing that
they must either acquire strength or
they viii perish. Not by revolution
but by evolution there is constantly
going on in nature the separation Of
the good and the evil. Not by sud
den fiat but by laws silent, uncom-
promising, eternal, nature is gather
ing the good fish into one basket and
casting the others out. She is burn
ing the tares and garnering the wheat.
She tolerates for the minute and sepa-
rates in the end.
Says Look to Harvest
let US SOW wheat! Let us pre-
pare something for the harvest besides
tares! God cannot conserve what is
fit only for the fire. Thus will the
Harvest be a time of rejoicing when
the evil shall be separated forever