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j Sunday School i
Lesson I
: Sl'NDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1949
T1IEME—The Great Invitation.
Isaiah 55; 56:6-8.
The Invitation Is to Life. Hu
man life has two aspects, the
physical and the spiritual, and
to live truly and fully, the latter
must be given its proper place of
dominance. But the material ele
ment in life is obvious. Hunger,
thirst, cold, and heat will not be
ignored and human beings are
easily led into taking so much
and such anxious thought for
food and raiment, that they have
little time for anything else.
Success in the pursuit of ma
terial things becomes their great
aim.
Life becomes tolerable only
when the goods of the spirit are
given a place, even though it is
a minor one. But life becomes
rich and satisfying oi^ily when
the riches of the spirit are given
first rank and their pursuit be
comes the chief end of it.
Hence the great invitation em
phasizes the seeking of true
riches
Yet men and women go on
spending the precious currency
of hours and days for that which :
is not bread. In a recent novel,
“The Inheritance,” Mr. Allen
Seager depicts the degeneration j
of a community whose people j
had no goal in life other than the !
getting of things. They are j
shown as the inheritors of a tra- j
dition of violence and greed that1
had been useful when log houses
had to be built and the forest
cleared, w hen there had been ‘
Indians to fight for the land, or i
even wrhen the coming of the
railroad had been a realized
dream. Now the carryovers of
that tradition are as destructive
as slow poisons.
On one of the first pages a
very old man, a gold-caressing
president of a bank is saying:
“And my question is this: What
becomes of me? Where do I go
when they have laid Ancil Bailey
in Oakwood cemetery? What
happens. The answ'er is, of
course, ‘Nothing. Nowhere.’ I
feel ns if I had been promised
something, and my fear is really
anger, I suppose. I say, ‘Is this
all?’ You’d laugh to hear me
talking to myself at night. ‘Is
this all?’ I say and I know I’ll
hear nothing for an answer. Then
1 begin to sweat to think that I,
the real me, will be shut up in
the coffin, because I am satisfied,
I guess this is what will hap
pen. But, as I say, 1 feel as if
I had been promised something
more.”
Almost at the last page a
younger man is saying:
“And if we make the grade
and get all this money, all we'll
do is sit on the porch of the
Country club after we retire and
feel cheated, wondering what
we did with all our time, resent
ing the hopes we had that told
us once there was something big
to do.” (From the New York
Times Book Review, April 18,
1948.) Thus modern literature
testifies to the uselessness of try
ing to find life in the possession
of lifeless things. From all this
petty and childish worship of
things which chains man to the
earth and shuts him away from
the stars, God’s invitation calls
us. It calls to heroic living, to
the rich enjoyment of what old
Ancil Bailey and many like him
have lost, the something that
was promised them which they
did not take when they could
have had it and missed only
when it was too late.
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