The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-12-21

"Who's Who" were issued from the
worlds press. A bit of hint OF what
reverses it might contain lies in the
lesson. Jesus had passed out Of 81
mons house and the crowds had gath
cred in high spirits because Of the IT.
tractiVeness Of denunciation. SOAP
box or platform that slams the ups /
will have the thrOng. 1t was out of
that attitude that there came the de-
made to redlvidG property. Jesus re
fused, but took occasion to explain 4
bit Of Gods reasoning in parceling out
names. Here was q man who was an
honest worker and had been industri-
Gus. He had been thrifty in habit and
intelligent in his management. He was
far-sighted in caring for returns for
while he might have sold his abund-
ant harvest it were more profitable to
hold it for 4 rise and the very refusal
to sell would help that tendency of the
market. Wide acres, bursting barns,
and assured income marked m as d
favOrite of the gods and a much
p0inted-out example to men, That he
was a churchman goes without saying
and he may have gone to temple wOT-
ship regularly. Men called him a sue
cess, but Jesus called him a fool. 1t |
was a complete reversal Of the naming
of the world, and the crowd must have .
held its breath in sheer shock. For if .
God named one in that way then every /
man needed to study his own case, and .
it was this facing of the individual /
that Christ was DESTROYS of securing. /.
| He was giving the principle upon
which God acted and it was not APP /
piled to one class, but was as personal /
| as ones own name.
LIVING IN A BARN.
In fact, he was a prisoner in his |
barn. Someone has said, 1T is right |
for a Christian to go into politics so
/ long as politics do noe go into him"
The trouble here was that the mans |
barn had gone into him. He could not
get away from it in any of his think |
/ ing so that the real man lived there
all the time No wonder God called !
him fool when with all the world Of
! men and beauty and knowledge, with
sky and sea and air to revel III he was
| content to live in a barn! And win
| dowless one at that! Nor would he
! share the old thing with any one else
for my" was his only adjective. Not
even God could come into that barn.
A friend of DR.. Chappell's went to a
rich man for aid for a worthwhile
project and urged as a reason that
! God had largely blessed him. 81 know
the Lord has blessed me-" he replied,
"but | was there" Here was another
man living in a barn. And in the
| long stretch of years for which this
man was planning there was to be no
| one to help him eat, drink and be
merry-his barn was too little to hold
anybody else. Think of living in an
affair like that! And having crowded
God out of it and everyone else he
was planning a feed in the dark as
his supreme means of enjoyment thru
the years. Bishop Mcintyre told of
miner coming into Denver after
striking it rich" and planning to
have the rarest pleasure on 81 worth
of sardines. With all the possible !
ties Of Colorado's capital in beauty, !
song, praise and comradeship, sar-
dimes was the most attractive. He
must have been lineal descendant
| of this man of the parable. For after
all his barn was smaller even than it
appears at first sight, for it could
hold nothing but the fellows stomach.
! And he was going to spend all his
days there and counted that the limit
in delight-God surely knows how to
name folks.
THE LAST WORD.
Gle said-God said'-and God al |
ways has the last word. Man may
make no provision for Him, but taere
is no escaping that final interview
and listening to the speech of the
Eternal. And the voice of the hour
is often drowned out with the roar of
the centuries. He who could not
catch Gods quiet tones in sun and
shower, in harvest and bursting bins,
who was deaf to all ordinary speech, |
would hear the crash of falling barns. !
| The worlds ear was pleasure, money, |
material dulled to the wooing of the |
Infinite, then came the din of 1914. |
| God will make His word heard. He
was trying to get the man out of his !
| barn an dthe only way was to break |
the barn. For it is the real man that
Jehovah seeks under all the piled-up
mass Of things, whether of grain or
gold, and it was his rescue that was
desired. The author of Dust and Des-
| tiny tells of meeting a young Scot
who had been desperately wounded
| and was bleeding to death upon the
sodden field. An officer offered aid to
the dressing station, but it was re-
| fused. He was too hurt to care for
anything except to just lie where he
was. But the officer ordered him to
his feet and to march, and the habit
Of obedience brought him reeling up.
| He was carried in and cared for until
strength came back. All he could talk
about was the kind cruelty of the Of |
ficer who forced him to move That's
picture of God. Plans may be
wrecked, desires thwarted, barns de-
stroyed, the conversation closed, but
all is to restore, to build, to bring
| soul growth.
THE ROAD TO REAL RICHES.
Seek first the Kingdom" was the
sign-board that Christ planted along
lifes highway, indicating the direc-
ton toward the town of delight. 1t
may not be money, but it will be
wealth. For the richest soul is that
which has the most to enjoy. Keep
ink kingdom interests first ones life
reaches to the border and no barn is
! big enoughfor that. Taking God into
partnership and sharing His enter
| nriseSfOrall races makes anVthinC 10 &c