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Show MIXTURE OF MI SI TIDES 1 TIE LIES OF MEN In the sermon preached at the Methodist Meth-odist Episcopal church Sunday evening Rev. Garvor used as his theme the parable of "The Wheat and the Tares," found In Matthew's gospel the 13th chapter and tho 28th to 30th versos. "The word tares is not a correct rendering of the original word. The tares of our Lord's day were a kind of wheat, a sort of degenerate plant, useless use-less and even poisonous, yet so much like the real wheat as to deceive the eyo, and that deceptlvo resemblance furnishes tho main point of the parable. par-able. In this chapter wo are furnished furnish-ed with Christ's own interpretation. The wheat was of His sowing, tho tares wcro dropped from the devil's hands. The good seed were tho children chil-dren of the kingdom, and the tares woro the children of the wicked one. The harvest was the end of the world, and the reapers wero the angels. Christ gave this as a picture of what His kingdom would be until the time of the final gathering canio. He saw the church of the coming ago rising before him, as he looked upon a Galilean Gali-lean wheat field. The precious grain 'and tho worthless stuff springing up I along with It would always bo seen together. Wherever the good seed was i sown another hand would scatter tares. Wherever there wore saints thero would always be hypocrites. Wherever the truth was given out, error and su-jperstition su-jperstition would creep in to defile it. In every company of devoted disciples , there would probably be a Judas the church would never be what Christ designed it would never bo tho ideal church, perfect, unspotted, and without with-out offense, until its work on earth ! was done, and it was raised to bo the church glorified. "This Is a parablo of our own lives. Jt is a picture of the best lives and shows us the strange inconsistencies which are found In the noblost men and partly explains them. Thero seemsi to be the mixture of the wheat and the tares. Christ never seems to have tho field all to himself. The enemy is sure to find where he can do a little sowing sow-ing of his own. Not a noblo bit of work is undertaken but that the princo of darkness thrusts his hand , in and makes his Influcnco felt. "Right hero let us bo careful that we do not throw tho work down in disgust because it is not all faultless and saintly. For this parable was spoken to teach us patience and forbearance. for-bearance. Christ doos not give up sowing because evil hands aro busy in the field. He docs not throw away Ills weapons because they are dull or have lost their keen edge." |