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"GOOD FOR SOMETHING”.
Being grown
religion in up means being good for something not just being good. Being good for something is the opposite of
being good for nothing'
Good for something is of course a question begging phrase. It all depends on the something. A man may be good at figures, good at bridge, or even good at everything But that is not what I mean. I do not even mean by good for some
Η του thing good at being good. drive me from Anglo Saxon in Latin words I must say that by good for something I mean a crea- tive "personality. And if you drive me back to Greek I mean by gbod for something simply a poet.
To be grown up in religion is io" be a poet in every day living, "usins not words but life itself, "working cut a life as diffe: ant from the good life of childish religion as Shakespeare's poetry is different from a business letter. The grown up in the religious life being good for something is an every day life lived cut as a poem is written by a poet
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"A MAKER"
Now it will be a little clearer if [ translate the Greek word poet back into plain Anglo Saxon and Op.3 say that to be grown up in religion is to be a 'maker. And that is the word we use in the Creed of God Himself, We call Him maker; maker of heaven and earth.
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would probably lose his goods, bu he might find his son. So when at last the son came back he ran out to meet him, and when the elder brother sulked in the garden the Qut father was still not beaten went out himself to bring him in. There is the sower who sowed seed; WEDNESDAY, there is the mustard seed which grows; there is the leaven which leavens the whole lump; there is the king who entrusts ha money to his servants and the householder who deals with the unemployment problem; there is the Samaritan stranger who gives first aid to the Jew: there is the creditor who for loves sake forgives debts and the gardener who pleads for another chance for a fruit tree: Even Mary who sits at Jesus feet fa nof just good she is good for some thing. She goes all out for the thing that really matters.
Jesus parables then describe a way, of life which is creative and good, for something.
the
But childishness in religion is o much easier that none of us really appreciate the fullness of this`em- phasis of Jesus on creative char-
net surprised acter I was other day, when a Christian sald to me that the people who were commended in the parable of the sheep and the goats were "those who belleved in Jesus" We make the same mistake in our common judgments both in our own ves and in our friends. We try to be good; we avoid certain sins, and we unconsciously credit those who can say the creed with all their heart with a position of security a God's eyes. But Jesus talks all the time of creative people, of people who do things, of people who are
good for something. The New who Testament, is full of a creative
activity.
who is good. The God creator is good for something. He is maker of heaven and earth and stars and rain and sun and flowers and all the beauty of human mind The God and heart and body. who is good is only good and be
cause only good, in fact good for nothing; except perhaps Яnding fault.
To be grow up in reiigion is to know one Gnd maker not only of things, of stars and men and flowers but inaker of a life for men which is worth while
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BUT GOOD FOR WHAT
FOR
You will be saying this is all pul- it talk What is this fine dis tinction between "goodness" and "good-for-somethingness" in
day life
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OBITUARY
First of all I want to warn you about that question. The less value a thing is in itself the easier Moonlight on the Alster (Fetras)
it is to describe, the more valuable Siren of the 'Ball (Lehar) "
it is the more difficult it is to des- 9.32 to 10 p.m.-Variety.
cribe it. Things that are beauri- Songs-Moon for Sale
ful defy description. Things that Thanks & Million-Robert Ashley because in It men and women' san
share the creative energy of God, are moving, stirring our emotions (Tenor).
and moving our hearts are al can be fellow makers with him of Plano Medley-Gerry Moore.
Bo Jf Songs-Me and My Dog ("Puble. To be grown up in religion very difficult to describe.
you ask Jesus the meaning of then is to be a poet, in the com-
London, March 13. lic Nuisance No. 1”)
good-for-something, if you asked
The death has occurred of Mr.. Swing Public Nuisance No.1") mon ways of life, a maker, a crea
what is all this creative R. B. Mauchan, managing director tive personally. It is to be to the htm eternal goodness as his own right activity for in the end He would of General Forge Products (1929),
answer the Kingdom of Heaven' Ltd., of Shanghai. hand is to a man. and not as the You were there ("Tonight at
a looking That is the only answer I can give ¦ Reuter pon of Narcissus or 8.30")
For you,
Br. guod-for-something? Waltz The Family Album (To-san to decorative lady.
mean good for the Kingdom of night at 8.30").
Heaven, and if you would know 10 p.m.-Big Ben: Close Down,
what I mean by the Kingdom character and initiative who were In His fe Heaven I cannot tell you. I ran gond-for-something. BERLIN PROGRAMME
only say keep company with Jesus He trained a group of twelve to be and you will learn in ways that His disciples but not His imitators. defy language what the Kingdom It is expedient for you." He said, of Heaven is. That is my first "that I go away." By the way they lived together, by His trusting of
-Frances Day.
Fox-Trots The Tea Doll's Parade
God is not just goodness He is creative goodness. He would not have us mirrors of purity, but rn- ther to share with Him His work of making. "My Father worketh and, I work" says Jesus. "We are .4.50 p.m.-Call DJB, DJN (German, [ fellow workers" .says St. Paul,
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238 Potsdam Conductor: Drum Major Erich
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5 30 p.m.-News in English.
5.45 p.m.-Music and Poetry: 125 Years of Lutter & Wegner. An Evening with E. Th. A. Hof-
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6.30 p.m.-Folk Music.
Dietrich Schrammel Quartette. 6.45 p.m.--News in German.
p.m.-Concert of Light Music... Rp.m.-News in English. 2.15 p.m.-Concert of Light Music
(continued). 9p.m.-Close DJB, DJN (German,
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JESUS PARABLES
answer,
acter.
Peter
Jesus, He
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But I have a second best answer them, by the parables He told I have been trying to describe which may help you on the road them, by the way He Himself the way of grownupness in religion. to the first. It is the story of a prayed to God He set out to make This is no rancy of my own, I have business man who in the days of them indeed Christ like, filled with simply been trying to put into the development of the wool trade His Spirit but also Peter-like, Andrew-like and words the character of the people in Yorkshire had built up for him- Thomas-like described by Jesus in His parables. sel a fine mill and a fine business John-like, Peter was more They were all people who you would connection. He had two sons. The after he had been with not call good but good-for-same- two, 500 were both bothered by Thomas was more Thomas.
gave them a freedom to be them- thing. There was the man who Ufe. They saw their father's e3- sold all that he had to buy a pear.timable character, they saw him selves. He made them not so much of great price; there was a woman respected, a man of habit and a good good-for-somehing.
That is what He would do with who turned all her household goods man of great content. A man of into the street to find a shilling religion. The young men were you and me. Do not malce for piece; there was the man who left brought up, in an atmosphere at yourselves rules of conduct, do not ninety nine sheep and went out aprobation of their father's char- either accept or reject the Sermon into the night, through bng and
The younger brother set on the Mount: Do not copy Jesus down precipice to and a lost sheep himself to copy his father. Moor rebel against Him. Rather wer- there was a father who had no deled his habits, his clothes, his ship Him, Love Him for His own faith in men but great faith in God church attendance, his -way of sake. for what He was and what But be He is.. Ponder the words He said. who gave to a selt willed son all speaking on his father.
He Steep yourself in the stories He his inheritance knowing that he still was not happy inside,
knew he was shamming The elder told. Catch from Him His Infinite brother reacted in a different way trust in God. Hear the echoes of He took pains to do everything | His laugher and the deep moving 8.35. p.m-English Informational exactly he opposite way to 'his' of 'His heart at injustice and pei- Nelther young man you tiness and wrong. And as you do 9.15 p.m.-News in German on D3A, 6.35 p.m.-Stock quotations. througis father,
DJB, DJN.
the courtesy of Swan. Culberzsee was free to be himself. Neither that day by day face your own. 9.30 p.m.-Brass Band.
Don and FriIZ.
had the courage to break away. life and your own work as God's Even Jesus could p.m.-Song Recital by Serafin Neither became in after He halt plan for you.
García,
the man the father had been. not do what you could do or God s
would not have sent you, to do it) BEING GROWN UP.
You are as essential to God's plan The question of being grown up as Jesus is though your place in in in religion is,for us very similar. is a different one. God is the great fact, Jesus, Our If you will Live like that without Lord, is the great picture of God: fear and without anxiety We can make pathetic attempts to, perhaps will not call you good but copy him think thereby we are they will recognise that you are being good. Or we can do as ao good-for-sumehing. People re- many do, consciously or uncons- cognised this in Jesus. They said clously and rebel against the char *This Man speaks with authority," acter and teachings of Jesus with conviction:: God will give you Christ. Defiantly we can call our the same quality if you are willing selves pagun and be proud of our to be grown up and accept from assumed, independence. Jesus in your Father the responsibility of His parables describes men, of being H's beloved son.
Programme Forecast (German.
English).
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10.15 p.m.-To-day in Germany..15 pm-Manila Motor Company
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