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. - V ilit; . IHE MORNING STAR WILMINGTON, N. C, SUNDAY, JAiNUARY 30, 1921. SEVENTEEN 1' I i: .l.'Vs Suits, Dresses and Cloaks V r. ' - :" - , , i-,,yr - : .;; - - - ' r; Arriving Uaily In Ladies' Spring Coat special Display at Extraordinary Low Prices. Large Assortment of h Stouts MANUFACTURERS' COMPANY C. J. ROBERTS - Hotel Wilmington Sample Rooms 316 North Front Street I. C. LOFTIN I . i : : ; 1 5 Affronting a Host's' Honor The International Sunday School Lesson for February 6 is: "The Marriage7 Feast." Matt. 22:1-14. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS J li (hi. i, in rural Japan, back of ':Hlro h'ma. T encountered a Shinto festival, ia vhHi lusty, shouting coolies car-rit-:i tli sacred ark containing the mir r, r r.-nhlem. An obliging Japanese rb-i has been in Hawaii and so spoke sijir.r. Knslish, explained to me. "God :l! !"X." 'ell nv the size of a people's god, ;,v.j t will tell you all that needs to be Sn-.-vn about the people. A "god .in lu ." a small and portable and limited mh never make a nation or an dividual great. The ancient Hebrews sa'ic often of the greatness of Jeno v j :is omnared with the smallness of t'.. cods of the heathen. Only an Al .ri;iity God can serve our 'world in th;.; day. ' . h'Taipht from Matthew's biography nf Jrsus as if designed especially for present time, comes the story that s a sermon about the gracious king rtose honor was affronted by those sr'mm he had invited to the'weddin-g-f"Miv!ties of his own son. The para ile is a picture of the kingdom, says Jesus. 'rlio point of it all is the offjpnded 'ji-cliness and good will of the king. A iemnizins reminder of the great 'h and riisrnity of God is this lesson r: ;ililo. Ours is a soft and lawless 1". . Ceremony, politeness, respect reverence have gone out of fash in alone Tvith modest raimetit. The favorite conception of God nowadays 'a ?:ood fellow." easy-going, toler ". akintr nothing of anvbody. and "i tlience least of all. "We have dilut- "1 Pietv down to vacrue imDUlses of fashionable God is no longer "a J'iks God": be cares nothing about !";:'fs or sacraments or observances. i twentieth centurv God is aulte as of the coif course and the auto- i""'ii!j speedway on Sunday as he is " temple reared for his worship !"': for the exposition of his word. He l! no i.? ws that are not subject to ''ipion i)V Mrs. Grundy. And he could r'i ir. any ease be disagreeable to any "h In fact, the Deity of our day Is lonacr a Supreme Being "holy and :' inrl is His name" but a charac '"!rss. mdeieps. complacent, cheerful -"-lhinK or Nothing. He is the anti-li'-is .,f the (,od of our fathers," the 'i'f! Of Isranl .....1 tv. rA,. r Tlnlw ll- t. rii 1 sojourned at the Greek mon- f'y on Mt. Sinai it was necessary to off my shoes before being aamlt n the (ihael of the Burning Bush. fr muBt one do in the mosques n'1 tfrnpies of the Orient. All of which ,; 'Ik antithesis Of the undue famili ,1r"ty with which we 'sometimes ap ''rr;'' li tli.i Infinite. AVlth reverence " ' ;iw'c. and some I llliu ss I I 'lhcts sach feeling of Un as marked the Hebrew .we should address the King and Jord of lords. i ' us or Tii3 throne-rights. .''r'-!Kn dignity may not sal '"'Hod: "For T tha Jr-A 1 ta God Is His BOV- safelv be af- "For I the Ivirfl thv God ant f.i'-iloR r,od." This parable Is a tale ue wno treated lightly th mgrn 1 '"Or of find Turin, ti mAilArn a.hout the kingdom of heaven we '" lf'titnes nverlnnV U -ma (mnfirt. fact of a1 whlch is that it ls tne ;--''''-e of the King on His throne ;' makes .the kinedom. As an old '; r puts ft. "Do let fod be God." -S): "Oppose We quote the lesson story it- from the AVeymouth Translation Anin Jesus spoke to them in fig '.."ivp ianguaere. The Kingdom of the Heavens," Hs Ilia V bo ri r n nnn J n l.ln. Mrhd i,. ! "r.il.tf ci tne marriage of his son, and '"' ' His servanto tn .all Vi invited v'in, ,0 th0 wedding, but they were ."Hng to come. Again he pent other servants with ?essag!! to those who wer InviUd. ii ..y brea;kfast is now-ready," he fr.' bullocks and the fat cattle but those . who wr. Invited were un worthy of it. Go out therefore to the cross-roads, and everybody you meet invite to the wedding." " 'So they went out into the roads and gathered together all they could find, both bad and good, and the ban queting hall was filled ,with guests. " 'Now the king came to see the guests; and among them he discovered one who was not wearing a wedding robe. " "My friend." he said, "how ls it that you came in here without a wed ding robe?" " 'The man stood speechless. Then the king said to his servants, '."Bind him hand and loot ana ning him into. outer darkness: there will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth." " 'For there are many called, but few chosen." - I Religion a Feast 7 Observe that the parable portrays the kingdom of heaven as a festival. Faith produces not a famine or a fast. but a feast. It represents the fullness and joyousoess of life. The ascetics and anchorites and hermits of the ear ly church, whose caves may still be seen in the 5 wild places of the near east, misinterpreted the message of the Master. If Christianity cannot work out successfully in normal relationship it cannot work out at all. Jesus, guest at weddings and banquets, put the stamp of His approval upon life's nor mal ways. When any one goes to Christ, . he goes to an enlarged life, and not to a i a r-r-n rxroA rn There is "fullness of joy" in His presence; an enrichment of all experiences, xo mo inwa ui w. ion with Him. this earth iu --- - - seems fairer, its nowers Diiwm ire brightly, Its people show more Kinaiy, , its daily round is more filled with hap piness. We give up nothing worth keeping, and we attain all things most worth having, when we enter the .goodly fellowship of Christ and His friends. ' . - That a king should so patiently and repeatedly invite unappreciatlve guests to a wedding feast is the weak point in the parable; but that veryfact re- kind to the unthankful and the evil. His bounty is extended 10 xne unue serving The guests who missed their opportunity, had no excuse to offer. i v.i. narable is interpreted as representing the double r ejection of the Ooel lnvnanon People: who are a monument to the noHtnoD of Jehovah. Ill Treateo serrHi On the principal streret of Pekin is a huge granite arch erected by the Chi nese government - forms of expiation for tne muraer 0i a German ambassador by the Boxers. To dishonor an ambassador Is to dis honor the ruler whom he represents. Even in semi-civilized lands the sanc tity of ambassadors is recognized. They are above all local laws. All the prestige and power of a king Is Incar nated in his ambassador. So when in our lesson parable, the thankless peo ple disdained the king's messengers they were disdaining the king him self. There is another side to that truth. All who e-o forth to anv service of the King of kings are invested with royal dignity. "As the Father has sent Me even so send I you." God's sanc tion rests upon God's servants. Every teacher of a Sunday school lesson, every minister of the Gospel, every worker in behalf of the kingdom, holds ambassadorial rank. There is no oth er serviceon earth equal to it. The lttconn thm nails ut thouerhts of the countless company of missionaries who are today bearing the .King s invita tion to the feast of feasts. Robert Mc- Intyre closes his long poem, "The Mis sionaries," thus: ii M. mm V. , . - -----.j uaD IIKJ UCWI, uuii "oth B nome in tne country, ui.ner to hi hixincn t,rA v hn k,n8's servants, maltreated fcnt'r 51,1 ''murdered them. So the king's ti'o,,, waa stirred, and he sent, his h - us and destroyed those murderers . nurnt 1heir city. Then he said' to servants, "The wedding banquet I' 1 n tU r U , ls and every nreDaration ng." gave no heed, but "Pape's CcHd Compound" is Quickest Relief Known i is ready," . ..nfi Tinn't stav stuffed-up! Quit blowing and snuffUng! Aldose of "Pape's Cold Compound" taken every two hours until three vdoses are taken usually breaks up any cold. The very ilrst dose opens clogged nostrils and the air - passages of the had; stops nose running; relieves the t,!a.he dullness, feverishness. ape's Cold Compound" acts quick. iire and costs only a few cents at Sug tore. It rn'fnine" ance. tastes mice, contains no quinine. "And still o'er all the earth they fare, where'er. a soul has need; My heart leaps up and calls to them: O Brothers mine! God speed! . What time within the (Jungle deep ye watch the daylight die, Or on some lonely Indian steep see dawn flush all the sky. 'Fa r is the cry from here to there, yet hearken when we say: Ye are the brethren of the Book: in Tfhartniim or Cathav. 'Tis ye who make the record good, 'tis ye, O royal souls! Who justify the Chronicles, writ in the ancient scrolls. "O Missionaries of the Blood! Ambas sadors of God! Our souls flame in us when we see where ye have fearless trod At break of day; your dauntless faith our slackened valor shames. And every eve our joyul prayers are jeweled with your names." That WrddriK Garment When the chosen rejected the invita tion, it was extended to-the highways, the great multitude of common people, the r"whosoever" of Christ's call. The incredible mercy of the Master, which makes all things ready, and leaves nothing for the beneficiary to do but to accept the opportunity, is set forth in the story. And as they have been do ing ever since, the crowd accepted the invitation. Many minds have been trouble-d by the apparent harshness of the king in the parable, in driving out the guest without a wedding garment, we miss the point, that the raiment for the feast was among the "all things" made ready by me lavish host. When the American Commission on mandates re cently visited Damascus, Emir Feisal h. Bedouin ihanauet: and 0 Arab costume. Nobody was Inspected as to raiment when the hosts from the highways thronged to the wedding feast; God wants us to come to Him just as we are. But although the terms of admis sion to His banqueting house are so free, yet after entrance, when we be come guests and accept the provision made for us, including the "robe of righteousness," there must be confor th standards of the place. Failure in this respect, in the parable, was akin to the affront offered the i.ina Aitrntv hv'those who had spurn ed the first expressions of his .hospUj tality. All who dwell with tne liing for His honor mus. conform to His provisions. The beautiful garment of holiness is required of all who accept His gracious invitation. Godliness is incumbent upon the children of God. SBVEX SENTENCE SERMONS The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a naou, ana ju reap a -etiaracter; sow a character and you reap a destiny. George Danna Boardman. I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God, Lifting the soul frem tne common civu To a purer air and a broader view. ' No one can resist the argument of holiness brought in a personified form before him. tHenry Ward Beecher. - If my heart be narrow, what avail to me that the world is -.larKe Arme nlan; Proverb. x The Man who remains master , of himself never knows defeat. Charles W. Gordon. evprr truoat was furnished with a full I t 111 - Prices already lowered have been further reduced. New purchases made at the bottom of the market have arrived. 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