Newspapers / The Future Outlook (Greensboro, … / Jan. 30, 1970, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Future Outlook (Greensboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
THE FUTURE OUTLOOK J. F. JOHNSON Editor & Publisher MISS EMMA P. JOHNSON News Reporter L. A. WISE Staff Photographer Make all checks payable to and mail to: THE FUTURE OUTLOOK P. O. BOX 20331? GREENSBORO, N. C. 27420 PHONE 273-1758 Second Class Postage Paid at Greensboro, N. C. 10c Per Copy Published Weekly $6.00 Per Tear Misfortunes During the winter season, families suffer more mis fortunes ? 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 ineffi cient oil burners, and loose- jointed, 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 care lessness of fire at such places takes place when the tenant waits for the landlord to prepare 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 ef fort to protect the property from any misfortunes himself. Then when some incident occurs, he faults the landlord, especially when he has caused damage to the landlord's property. On the other hand, he doesn't have any house hold insurance. He is just looking for something for noth ing 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, they will have to pay for it. They prefer staying there until some misfortune happens by fire, wind storms, or floods, as well as depreci ated electric wiring and the house as a whole. We urge all of our readers to invest in household in surance which will help minimize damage of many haz ards that cause the many misfortunes. Misfortune occurs in the 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 chil dren become confused. They are unable to find the insur ance 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. I heard a widow state that she didn't know the finan cial 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 of 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 in surance on her husband whereby it will help to a^u/rt many of the unknown bills after death. Just about every week, especially when we read our Monday morning newspaper, we see a scene of a vehicle accident where both mother and father of five or six young sters were killed on the highway. Now, the friends and relatives become upset as to what will become of these little children. If these parents have been progressive livers, well enough to own an automobile, they always have relatives or friends to come to their rescue to adopt these children with the understanding that a lawyer or the Welfare Depart ment would change the face value of the insurance policy over to them as well as the property and other dividends where there is an income. It is a rare occasion nowadays to send a child in some circumstances to an orphanage home unless he turned out to be a juvenile problem. It is dangerous to exhibit large sums of money in public places and to make change In public gatherings, This Weed's Sunday School Lesson j GOD JUDGES MEN AND NATIONS Beginning Where Ton Are I A powerful car is moving down the highway at high speed. On the distant edge of the lighted horizon, the driver makes out the dim image of a white cross standing to the right of the highway. Just as he flashes past it, he makes out toe words: "Jesus is coming Be ready." In a family room at a small funeral home a desolate di vorcee sits, the body of her only son, who was recently kill ed in the service, lying in a cof fin a few feet away. Her gri ef ^ heavy, but her eyes are dry. As friends come to mourn with her, she reassures them with the words, "It was God's will" A Jewish rabbi sits at the breakfast table in a large city and reads the morning head lines. "If there is war, It will be the will of God," hi say! A young Catholic priest is with some older mem bers of his church who say that changes are ruining it. "I know these changes may be hard to understand," he says, "but it J change!" ?* ^ ** We should AU about us are signs that some people interpret as mu tations of the Judgment of God at work in our world. Some people see these Judg ments as happening now, while others think all Judgments will occur in the future. Some think of Judgment In personal terms, but others think that God Judges nations as well as individuals Before the first Varld War, ^any Christians believed that God executed his Judgments in ?^elyLThls meant 0181 riot? and labor troubles were caused by man's failure to fulfill the will of God. Since the first World War up to and including our oto tune many Christians have ? w L that God'8 J^^cnt could best be seen in affairs between nations. They did not believe that one nation was sla ful and another was righteous, since the sinners and the right eous lived In both nations. Many believed that God used the sin ners to punish the proud and. the proud to punish the sinners. There was little place In such ? scheme for ?eIf-rlAt?0?,? with the guilty. There have been changes la attitudes toward Judgment One of tiie most significant has been that men have bellered more ?trongly than before that one nation is the rod of Judgment1 against another. But the tea- ' dency has been to attribute this 1 Judgment to impersonal factors world society As always when we deal with questions of Judgment, in this lesson we should be thinking about God's judgment on our selves rather than how God Is going to judge others, whether persons or nations. Searching The Scripture# The Scripture for this lesson is Amos 2:6 through 3:2; Mat thew 13:1-51; Revelation 18. Se lected verses are printed below. Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 24 Another pafable he put before them, saying, "The king dom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men were sleeping; his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds ap peared also. 27 And the servants of the householder came and said to him, "Sir, did you pot sow good seed in your field? How then has it weeds?" 28 He said to them, 'An enemy h?? done this.' The servants said to him, Then do you want us to go and gather them?' 29 But he said, *No; lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.' " 36 Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, say ing, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field." 37 He answered, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of man; 38 tl\e , field is the , world, ami the good seed means the sons of the. kjnoddpir the weedrf' are the sons' kg the evil one, 89 and the eneniy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the close of the ag* and the nepers are angels. 40 Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so win it be at the close of the age. 41 The Son of man win send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers. 42 and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. 43 Then the righteous will ?hfn? like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear." Memory Selection: Salvation and glory and power belong to our God. for his judgments are true and Just. ? Revelation 18:1-3 Exploring The Questions The concentration camps in Germany in the second World War and the killing of minima of Jews have caused some Jew ish theologians to form some definite ideas about the provi dence of God and Mi actions in the world. Despite the harass ment and persecution of Jews wherever they have lived, noth ing In the past changed their thinking as the concentration camps did. An American rabbi wrote a especially on street corners. That causes flim-flam and robbery. The insurance law advises that large sums of money which are to be paid to employees be counted in the office, locked away from the public. May we advise our readers to be aware of the many misfortunes that are happening due to weather, auto acci dents, flim-flam and robbery* and especially fire during this particular season. I am sure that if any misfortune occurs to you, you will think about what we are saying with many more thoughts of the same Opinion. few years ago that Jews had traditionally believed that God m 1118 wlsdom and justice causes everything In human history to happen just as it does. But alter the concentration camps, the rabbi said it became impossible .?r.^any,Jews to believe la this traditional Jewish God. "What *r,,?'G?d 8113 back ?"? allows Adolf Eichmann, the killer 0f Jj?8' to have health and and daily food so th? he could continue to send God's ancient people to their deaths?" The concentration camps and other experiences of man's in humanity to other men have created theological and religious probleiri for Christians as well as Jews. How can one believe ? \?ud 0t jusUce 0 world in which so many innocent peo ple suffer? Christians have traditionally believed that God's judgment works in human events. This ew is usually associated with the view that God will also * natlons at the end of ^ ^ But ^ ^ judg_ ment to wait until the end of time? Or may Christians reason y expect to see some support during their own lives? Finding Help With Your Questions Right away we should agree that we are up against a deep mystery when we come to talk about the judgment of God. Gods ways are not our ways, and our judgments are not our ways, and our judgment* mV,? ?0d'' man Uves 0n the earth long enough to have more thaTf S^nPer"PeCtlVe on even* ?? tog on around him: but God hu the beginning as well as the end of every deed and thought We ponder our national des tiny and wonder what will hao P?to our nation and society within the next century. But God already toowfc ^ think ?f our limited experience and God's unlimited power and pledge, we ?-*eWg?j "the mystery that faces us when we talk about judgment The weeds mentioned in the parable looked very much like a kind of wheat. When these weed. STwiL10 dJBtingul4h between toe weeds and the wheat during toe early stage, of growth Moreover, the roots of thTweed, and the wheat bec^netofc^! ?so toat it was impossible to P*1 out toe weeds wlthoot^ tog out the wheat as well. It ST ,thwfc?' toat ~!w*?ds "bould continue to Krow with the wheat until harvest time, when ?* T7 grated ^ ^ Let us now look mart closely at Jesus' explanation of the parable. It is a view that Is bald literally by many Christians, whila others believe that the parable is better undai stood symbolically. Whatever Inter pretation we bring to it, we may be certain that Jesus and the tradition since his day have be lieved that, there will be a Judg ment at the end of the present age. Some readers may feel that such a viewpoint is not congen ial to contemporary Christianity; but most scholars agree thit Jesus held such a view at the end of the age. (Continued on Page |) i
The Future Outlook (Greensboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 30, 1970, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75