The Topeka state journal., 1922-08-05

eyes, for they see. and your ears, for
they hear. For I soIemnly tell you
that many Prophets and holy men
have longed 20 see the sights you see.
and have not seen them, and to hear
the words you hear, and have not
heard them.
The Story OF the Sower explained
ITO you then will explain tho
parable of the Sower. When a man
hears the Message concerning the
Kingdom and does not understand it,
the Evil one comes and catches away
what has been ,sown in his heart. This
is he who has received the seed by the
roadside. He who has received the
seed on the rocky ground is the man
diately receives it with joy. 1t has
struck no root, however, within him.
He continues for a time, but when
suffering comes, or persecution.
stumbleS and falls. He who has re-
ceived the seed among the thorns is
the man wh0 hears the Message, but
the cares of the present age and the
delusions of riches quite stifIe the
Message, and it becomes unfruitful.
But he who has received tie seed on
good ground is he who ',ears and
understands. Such hearers give a
return. and yield one a hundred for
one, another sixty, another thirty.'o
Tho Wheat and the DarncP
Another parable He put before
them.
1.-The KINGDOM of the Heavens
He said, may be compared to a man
who has sown good seed in his field,
but during the night his enemy comes,
and over the first seed he sows darnel
among the wheat, and goes away. But
when the blade shoots up and the
grain is formed. then appears the
darnel also.
80 the farmers men come ana
ask him,
sowed on your land? Where then
does the darnel come froi-- p
Some enemy has done this he
said.
Shall we go. and collect it?' the
men inquire.
"'No,' he replied. for fear that
while collecting the darnel you should
at the same time root up the wheat
with it.<Leave both to grow together
until the harvest, and at harvest-time
darneI first. and make it up into
bundles to burn it, but bring all the
wheat into my barn..
The Mustard Ceed
Another parable He put before
them.
said. ''is like a mustard-seed. which a
It is the smallest of all seeds, and
yet when fullgrown it is larger than
any herb and forms tree. SO that the
birds come and build in its branches .
Tho Yeast
Another parable He spoke to them.
The Kingdom of the Heavens" He
said, ''is like yeast which a woman
takes and buries in a bushel of flour,
for it to work there till the whole
mass has risen"
Christ's Use of Parallels
All this Jesus spoke to the people
in figurative language, and except in
language He spoke nothing
to them. in fulfilment of the saying
of the Prophet,
Il will open by mouth in figurative
I will utter things kept hidden since
the creation of all things Cps.
lxxviii, p.
The Wheat and the Darnel.'
It's Meaning
When He had dismissed the people
and had returned to the house. His
disciples came to Him with. the1
request,
Explain to US the parable of the
darneI sown IN the field"
The sower of the good seed" He
replied, sis the Son of Man; the field
is the world; the good seed-theset are
the sons of the Kingdom: the darnel,
the sons of the Evil one. The enemy
who sows the darnel is the Devil; the
harvest is the Close of the Age; the
reapers are the angels. AS then the
darnel is collected together and burnt
up with fire, so will it be at the Close
of the Age. The Son of Man will
commission His angels. and they will
gather out of His Kingdom all causes
of sin and all who violate His laws;
and these they will throw into the
fiery furnace. There will be the
weeping aloud and the gnashing of
teeth Then will the righteous shine
out like the sun in their Fathers
Kingdom Listen, every one who has
ears!