Show I THE I PARABLES OF TIlE THE KINGDOM I. Professor ProCessor J. J B B. Thomas o of Newton Theological Institution has an admira admirable ble blo article under tho tiro title Tile The ParI Par- Par I of or tho Kingdom In two recent numbers ers of the Methodist Review There Is an immensely interesting I passage in the current paper Do you ou remember that parable of I 1 the the leaven The Kingdom of or Heaven is like unto leaven which a woman took look and hid in three measures of ot meal till HIl the whole was leavened It doesn't look mea like much of or a story tor or as ns possessing much thought But It really is rather rathel big In the handling which Dr Thomas gives It Il Leaven or yeast it seems Is a good deal of Jr ofa ofa a a puzzle Ie to the scientific men The housewife knows Just jUt what to do with it It but she doesn't know why it does the things sho she so 80 confidently expects I It Is one of or the It is l b by some Homo II given a place between en the mineral mineraI and tho the vegetable kingdoms By its lis action action action ac ac- tion It approaches almost the realm of or the animal In Its characteristics It cannot ho bo placed in In n the tho soil oll as s other seed must be if one desires Increase it It doesn't grow in sunlight and open air It must be mu t hidden Tho The woman woman wo wo- man of or the stor story hid It In ht meal And there It reached down and took tool hold of or the mineral minerai world and reached up and anti look took hold on tho the vegetable world as the author puts the case and it corrupts both It destroys with amazing swiftness No disintegration Is so 50 rapid as that of a a. ferment And AmI that looks like de destruction But at the right Instant the whole leavened mas mass l Is thrust Into the oven o and baked Into wholesome bread bread bread- better bread brend than c could uld have been obtaIned obtained obtained ob ob- without the tho ferment without the process of r decay without the pe Ie- J 1 rind In which the tho ma nH-lp s seemed scorned abhorrent abhorrent abhorrent abhor abhor- rent even to the sm smell I The author seeks seck for fOI a le lesson Icon on In that I parable and mill ho finds finis it It will help heip the rest st o of us to take account of or the tho seeming evil which attacks us to make It help instead ocl of or hindering to com com- IH ppl pel 1 tho the de destroying agency to make our product more moro valuable than It t could have havo h been en without Dr DI Rolland Holland says How sh shall I II It nerve nervo m my spirit strengthen nt my will wm and make mo In some home goodly sense ense I like Him hint who bore the cross of oC evil whilo Ho lIo lived and amI groaned and bled led upon It when Ho He died 1101 Sorrows Sorrow and antl 10 losses lowes come to U us us- They rhe may crush and destro destroy we ma may bo be able to make u use o of oC them to win to greater renter triumphs of ot character character character char char- acter than we could have hoped without without without with with- out tho trial There Thero Is much of ot comfort In that much of ot gratitude lIlo due parable parable and and to Dr Thomas for tor pointing out the hidden meanings of or the text |