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TWO TH - THE FUTURE OUTLOOK J. F. Johnson Editor & Publisher Miss Emma P. Johnson News Reporter L. A. Wist Staff Photographer Make all checks payable to and mall to: THE FUTURE OUTLOOK P. O. Box 20831 ? GREENSBORO, N. C. 27420 PHONE 273-1758 Second Class Postage Paid at Greensboro, N. C. 10c Per Copy Published Weekly $6.00 Per Year I I MISFORTUNES During the winter season, families suffer more misfortunes?incidents and accidents?than any other season of the year. Quite often we hear the fire vehicles creating a noise going through the streets to some ramshackled house. Upon their arrival the house is completely destroyed by fire. If not, the firemen usually damage the property beyond its usefulness with water and other apparatus that is used to extinguish the fire. Such misfortunes usually happen in an old, delapidated, rented house where four or five children, or sometimes two families, are living. The cause of such fire hazards are: first, they are rentals, and no attention is given to some of the remedies that cause fire, such as shortage in the electric wiring, small inefficient oil burners, and loose-join ted, rickety wood and coal stoves which are left with the door half closed. Therefore, the wind blows through and in some windows in the stove where the panes are broken out, air comes in contact with the fire and causes combustion in such a place. The carelessness of fire at such places takes place when the tenant waits for the landlord to repair his house while the tenant looks for a better place to live for cheaper rent. The tenant in a rented house never feels it is his duty to make any effort to protect the property from any misfortunes himself. Then when some incident occurs, he faults the landlord's property. On the other hand, he doesn't have any household insurance. He is just looking for something for nothing without any protection. In most cases, it is the fault of the tenant when the door locks are damaged, windows broken, and so forth. They know when they rented the house they signed a contract to upkeep the property just as they found it, and if any damage, thev will have to nav for it. They prefer staying there until some misfortune happens by fire, wind storms, or floods, as well as depreciated electric wiring and the house as a whole. We urge all of our readers to invest in household insurance which will help minimize damage of many hazards that cause the many misfortunes. Misfortune occurs in time of death in the family, especially when it is accidental. In most cases when the man who is the head of his house dies, the wife and children become confused. They are unable to find the insurance policies, deeds, contracts, loans, and do not read them thoroughly to see if there is a clause showing that bills are paid. In case of a loan, it is automatically paid after death. Of course, the mortician usually advises them for enough to get a good burial payment out of these dividends. v I heard a widow state that she didn't know the financial condition the home was involved in until after the death of her husband. One agent would come and bring her a sum of money due from a certain insurance she didn't know about. The next day another agent would come with unpaid bills that required some amount of insurance money to pay that bill made by the deceased husband. This happened for about two years. Just about every week or two some unknown bill would come up from somewhere that she was not aware. There is no need for a woman thinking she will be able to keep up with all the bills her husband made, or on the other hand the same by the wife. I further suggest that a wife should invest in insurance on her husband whereby it will help to adjust many of the unknown bills after death. Just about every week, especially what we read our Monday morning newspaper, we see a scene of a vehicle accident where both mother and father of five or six young E FUTURE OUTLO< THIS WEEK'S JESUS' USE OF PARABLES Beginning Where You Are What is the simplest way to convey a truth about life to another person? Most of the time we assume that to state a proposition in a few well-chosen words is the most effective means of communicating truth. But is it? "A picture is worth a thousand words," we have often heard. No doubt pictures mold more persons' minds than any other medium today. Television commercials have been called the most refined sixty-second art form of the century. More often than not, the commercial uses the form of a parable or an analogy. In other words, the dramatic sketch says that if only you use Brand X soap, you too can be as glam orous as a nouywooa star, or II you wish to avoid disgrace, you must use Brand B deodorant. The popular comic strip teaches by the use of parable at the same time it makes us laugh. As Robert Short has shown, "Peanuts" often makes a theological point. It is a series of parables for our time. Jesus used parables in many ways, but always he involved his hearers in answering their own questions. Parables could lead them beyond where they were to a fuller vision of what might be. G. William Jones says, "Note the vast difference between being told, 'Loving your neighbor means going out of your way for any person whose need is revealed to you,' and being told the parable of the good Samaraitan. With the former approach, one can only respond with a relatively passive 'I see,' or else a petulant 'Impossible!' The latter approach, on the other hand, reaches out to involve the hearer in a search for the truth hirtrion in tko no??H? ?J ? ? ? ?"V ? i a c* ? * v t OUU CUcourages him to form his own explicit statement of that truth." sters were killed on the hig relatives become upset as to v children. If these parents hav enough to own an automobile, friends to come to their rescu the understanding that a la' ment would change the face over to them as well as the where there is an income. It to send a child in some cir home unless he turned out t It is dangerous to exhi public places and to make especially on street corners robbery. The insurance law money which are to be paid the office, locked away from May we advise our read misfortunes that are happen: dents, flim-flam and robber this particular season. I am occurs to you, you will thin with more thoughts of the sa bit large sums of money in change in public gatherings, . That causes flim-flam and advises that large sums of to employees be counted in the public. ers to be aware of the many big due to weather, auto sects'-, and especially fire during sure that if any misfortune I k about what we are saying .me opinion. )K F SUNDAY SCH In the search for this hidden truth, the listener is taken along familiar paths but led toward a goal beyond his seeing. Usually the story is a very homely tale. The baking ol bread, the playing of children in the marketplace, the planting and harvesting of a crop, the drawing of nets by fishermen? all are daily scenes. Like the other great storytellers of history, Jesus knew how to stab his listener awake with a sudden twist of irony ot disclosure at the end. In the parable of the great feast, who would expect to hear of a king who would go out and force people to come from the highways and the hedges to attend his banquet? Or who would suppose that an employer would have the nerve to pay the laborers in his vineyard the same lor an hour's work as for a whole day? Shocking! But in the very shock Jesus led his hearers beyond the ways of business to the ways of gracious giving, for all the workers were treated beyond their merits. If this is true of men, ! how much more of Godll Thus Jesus was a realist plus, j His parables always pointed beI yond themselves to the "how | much more" of "-Ts ways, j Men who heard Jesus tell hif j parables sometimes wondered I whether he was usinv thin meth od to hide some secret from them or to make the plain truth plainer still. In the Scripture suggested for j this lesson we find this debate. Some of the disciples must have thought, as they pondered Jesus' teachings, that he was revealing to them some hidden wisdom too deep for ordinary listeners to understand. The writer of the Gospel of Matthew remembered a prophecy of Isaiah 6:0-10 about hearing and not understanding. See how he put this all together in this passage. ;hway. Now, the friends and rtiat will become of these little e been progressive livers, well they always have relatives or e to adopt these children with ivyer or the Welfare Departvalue of the insurance policy property and other dividends . is a rare occasion nowadays cnmstances to an orphanage o be a juvenile problem. RIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1971 OOL LESSON Searching The Scriptures The Scripture for this lessoD is Isaiah 6:9-10; Matthew 13:130, 34-43. Selected versus are printed below. Matthew 13:10-17, 34-35 10 Then the disciples cam? and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" 11 And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 12 For to him who haa will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he haa will be taken away. 13 This ia why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14 With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive. 15 For this people's heart haa grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyea they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and underctonrl 4Vini?. ?vuuu Tf*M4 UIV'I UCUV, OUU VU1U lor me to heal them.' 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, lot they hear. 17 Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see wha) you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hearand did not hear it." 34 All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable. 35 This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world." Memory Selection: Nothing is ma that shall not be made fanifest, nor anything secret that shall not be known and coma to light. Take heed then how you hear. ?Luke 8:17--It Exploring The Questions | Was Jesus really interested in mystifying his listeners, or did they more often come away saying, "I never thought of it quite like that before"? The question of why Jesus told his parable* I is central to all that will follow. | How and why did he use ther kind of stories we call parables? I In all times and places the story has been an effective means of putting across a point Aesop, Homer, William Shakespears, Abraham Lincoln ? all nave Deer, tellers of tales. Much of the Bible originated In stories told around the campflres of the nomadic people of Israel. What was the origin of the parable? Where do we find these In the Old Testament? How do thtfj (Continued on Page T)
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