It Is Marvelous To Behold

A religious group which bought time on the air to get their message across, began each program with, “And now a word from your Creator.” The Church’s mission is to interrupt all the programs of this present Age — the programs of business and busy-ness, of leisure and pleasure, of self-satisfaction and greed — to bring the Word to the world from Him to whom all creation is accountable.

In today’s Gospel Lesson, Jesus’ parable about the wicked tenant farmers is a message to the whole world, to our own country and, most particularly, to the Church. In the parable, the owner of a vineyard leases it to some tenant farmers. For three successive harvest times the tenants forcefully resist the owner’s efforts to claim his share. They murder his agents who come to collect. The tenant farmers are now in a strong position to claim ownership of the land by means of what we would call “squatter’s rights.” If they are able to…