Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1922 — Page 6

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IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday School i Lesson ’ (By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D D„ Teacher ot English Bible In th* Moody Bible Institute of Chisago.) CvpyilMbt. 1122, Western Newepaper Union. LESSON FOR DECEMBER 24 A LESSON IN TRUST AND PRE. PAREDNESS LESSON THXT-Luk* 12:13-40. GOLDEN TEXT-The Ute it more than meat, and the body la more than raiment. —Luke 12:23. PRIMARY TOPIC—Th* Story of a Foolish Rich Man. JUNIOR TOPIC—A Foolish Rich Man. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC —Rich Toward God. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —True Riches. Since on October 8 we had a lesson on the birth and childhood of Jesus, many will doubtless prefer to have this uew lesson instead of the Christmas lesson. I. A Warning Against Covetousness (vv. 13-21). 1. The Occasion (w. 13-15). One of the company requested Jesus to be umpire In a disputed estate. Two brothers were in trouble over an inheritance. Christ refused to enter the sphere of the Civil law and warned against the spirit of avarice. Christ’s mission was preeminently spiritual. 2. Enforcement of the Warning (vv. 16-21). The parable of the rich man shows clearly that to be concerned with earthly riches while neglecting God Is the height of folly. The Lord’s warning Is of great importance today; for many are seeking gold and forgetting God. Note (1) his increase in goods (v. 16). His riches were rightly obtained, for the ground brought forth plentifully. This shows that a man may be rich because of the Lord's blessing upon him. (2) His perplexity (v. 17). His land was producing more than his barns would hold. He did not want it to go to waste. If he had possessed the right views of life and a sense of stewardship before God, he would have seen that his barns at least had enough for his personal needs and that he could have distributed his surplus to the needy and for benevolent purposes. (3) The fatal choice (vv. 18, 19). lie chose to enlarge his barns and give up his life to ease and luxury, It ought to be a delightful task for men whom God has made rich to devote their time and energy to the distribution of their possessions to benevolent purposes. (4) The awful indictment (vv. 20, 21). - God calls him a fool. 11. The Certain Cure for Anxiety (vv. 32-34). Having shown the folly of the rich man who gained gold but lost God, He now urged the disciples to trust God and dismiss all anxious care. He assured them that they need not be anxious even for the necessities of life. Note: 1. The Argument (vv. 22, 23). This is summed up In one brief sentence: "The life Is more than food, and the body is more than raiment.” The God who gave the life and made the body should be trusted to provide food and clothing. 2. The Illustrations (vv. 24-28). (1) God’s care for the (vv. 24-26). The ravens do not sow nor reap—they have not storehouse or barn, yet they live, for God feeds them. If God does not forget the fowls, certainly He would do more for His children. (2) God’s care for the flowers of the field (vv. 27, 28). If God is so careful of those flowers which appear but for a day, how much more will He clothe His children! 3. The Exhortations (w. 29-34). (1) Make not the getting of food anC clothes your chief concern. Trust God to provide them. (2) Seek the kingdom of God (v. 81). Those who make God's kingdom first shall have all theii needs supplied (Phil. 4:19). (3) Be not afraid (v. 32). God’s good pleasure Is upon His own, and all good things will He give them, (4) Practice self-denial In order to be able tc give gifts to those In need (vv. 33, 34) The doing of such deeds will tend tc lift the thoughts upward to God —tc trust Him. . ill. Be Ready for the Coming of the Lord (vv. 35-40). Having warned the disciples against the acquisition of worldly goods while forgetting God, and shown them the needlessness of anxiety for food and clothes, He shows them the blessedness of being in a state of readiness when the Lord shall come. Conviction as to the certainty of the Lord’s coming is the sure cure for worldliness and anxious care. This attitude oi heart He made clear by two parables—that of the returning of the Lord and that of the thief. The Lord will be sc pleased with those who are waiting for Him that He will take delight in sitting at the banquet with them, find even serve them. The parable of the thief shows that the time of the Lord’s coming Is not known. p | «"■ Paul’s Wish. I count all things but loss for ths excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord; if by any means j might attain unto the resurrection ol the dead.—Phlllppians 3:8-11, So Many Ravens. The Lord never had so many ravens as he has this morning.—T. De SKitt Talmage. God Io Known Everywhere. In Judah Is God known; His name Is great in Israel.—Psalm 76:1.

Wants SIO,OOO To Aid In Catching Drug Agents (United Press Service) Los Angeles, Dec. 20—(Special to Dally Democrat) —Chief of Police Oaks today asked the city council for a special secret service appropriation of SIO,OOO to be used in running down 500 drug agents who are selling “dope” to movie actors and others in this cty. "There is a master mind behind this dope plot and an organized ring is distributing the stuff,” said Oaks"This vast quantity of narcotics Is not flowing in haphazard. The chief concern is to arrest the brains of the organization. "There are 500 peddlers known to the police. They will be arrested if possible, otherwise they will be driven out of town as vagrants.” Chief Oaks expressed the belief that, incidentally, tills campaign might reveal information concerning the murder of William Desmond Taylor. The city council is expected to ap-j propriate the SIO,OOO asked by Oaks I without delay, his request already! having been given an o. k. by thei police commission. Meanwhile, Wallace Reid, famous film star whose desparate battle j against narcotics weakened him so be | is now dangerously ill,. continued to! fight for life with Will Hays, movie czar, and practically all officials of the industry rooting for his recovery.' It was news of Reid’s plight tljat aroused new interest in the Hollywood narcotic situation. Hays, following his announcement that he would be the first to shake I Reid’s hand when he was well enough to see visitors, went to the sanitarium late yesterday when doctors informed him the film star had rallied. The movie czar bent over Reid's bed and gripped his hand. Tears came into Reid’s eyes and he smiled feebly. The two Reid children were also at their father's bedside. Doctors said he was exhausted when they left the sick room. • Little was said during Hays visit so far as is known and no mention was made of the fact that word of the star’s illness has been spread broadcast. Reid is not yet well enough to hear this. "I am heartily in accord with this campaign,’’ Hays said today with reference to the offensive against dope agents. “There is nothing in the traffic in narcotics which is indigenous to Hollywood or the motion picture industry’ Every city, town or village in the country has to cope with this terrible evil and the public should regard the matter in this light. Cities such as New York. Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco and scores of others have far more to do with the ' work of stopping the dope traffiic than Hollywood.” Hays, wno has the power to ban movie actors forever “for the good of the industry” took occasion to point out that Wallace Reid’s case differeded from that of a narcotic user who takes up certain of the more fantastic forms of drugs merely : for the “kick” to be obtained. He emphasized that Reid, suffering from ill health and other work, used morphine to deaden pain and insomnia. o New York —Johnity Kilbane, world’s : featherweight champion, will get $50,000 and a percentage of the gate re-, ceipts for defending his title against I Eugene Criqui, the European cham-' pion, according to Promoter Tom O'Rourke. The Frenchman is to get ■ $25,000 as his end.

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Some Damage To Rye And Wheat Is Repotted Indianapolis, Dec. 21—The freezing and thawing weather the first half of the month, with no snow covering the ground, has caused some dumage to wheat and rye, but both crops continue to look good, gays the semi-monthly report on Indiana crop conditions prepared by George C. Bryant, state agri-1 cultural statistician, for the United! States department of agriculture. Thereport follows: Temperatures for the first half of the period averaged considerably j above normal and about normal for' the second half. Precipitation was general over the state on several days' and was about normal. Severe cold, retarded outdoor work near the end of the period. Some butchering has; been done. Corn husking from the stock is-

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about completed, but much is yet to be husked from the shock. Chinch bugs and Hessian flys wore reported in a few scattered localities. Young clover lias been slightly damaged in some localltlea by the cold weatlidb. All live stock is In good condition except a few scattered cases of hog

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