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T1IE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday November 17 1990 Page Religion Parable of the Talents By JIM BY AN 33rd Snday In O T Nov 18 Matt 251430 Parable of the Talents Clues Which When Pulled May Unravel A Parable A slave in the ancient world was considered a human being but he was nevertheless proper ty he was inferior The fate of the slave was regarded not as an accident but as a fact of nature If a master decided to set the slave up in business in order to claim the profits for himself he gave the slave a sum of money called a perculum and full cial autonomy along with the right to sign contracts on his own initiative and even to plead court so long as his masters fairs were involved and the was not revoked However the master also had the right if the slave deserved the ultimate punishment to hire the municipal executioner to do the job paying only the cost of the pitch and sulphur needed to bum the victim Romans didnt free slaves they behaved as good masters Slaves were regarded as overgrown children A slave could not marry or have children and were like the breeding of livestock A bad slave was regarded as a bad tool A master might free a slave but this was not an admission of the injustice of slavery To free a slave was a merit for the master and a sign of love In Rome in B there was one slave for every two free men In Athens three our of four residents were slaves In Palestine a Jew could be punished to up to six years of slavery for theft or debt He was not unlike a wage earner But if you were a pagan born into slavery you stayed there for life A talent was the most impor tant Greek coin which cor responded to a weight of silver estimated to vary from 24 to kg even as much as 41 kg The Roman tax on Galilee and Perea during the time of Christ was 200 talents Herods annual revenue was talents Small hoards of coins and jewelry are still found by chance or by archaeological exploration in Palestine Invasion and thievery were concerns to timid Palestinians American Express didnt have offices the Middle East at the time Note the sow and harvest language of the impudent slave A seed sown in the ground will produce an ear of corn but a talent buried the ground lies dead Capital must be sown in the market place to earn a return The impudent slave mixed up the categories silver is sown in a dif ferent way than seed Something Else I spent 15 hours last Saturday driving to and from Ottawa following the Walkers for If you remember they passed through Georgetown last month on their way to the na tions capital is the homeland of the Innu one of the last hunter gatherer peoples in the world Recently the Canadian govern ment has shown interest in their land as a training site for pilots Jets have been overflying the Innu lands at a height of fifty feet a manoeuvre that enables them to avoid being picked up by radar Walkers from Halifax and Windsor finally arrived in Ottawa last Saturday It was a pretty bleak day I like the impudent slave in parable thrown out into the darkness Except I dont feel as if Ive been impudent Where were the members of Parliament Not one of them from any of the political parties in Ottawa appeared on the Hill to greet the Walkers If 1 was bugged and I got there in a heated coach imagine how the Walkers felt Endnote The material on Slavery is taken from Vol of A History of Private Life edited by Paul Veyne The book was published by Harvard University Press Multifaith group submits statement to NDP On Oct the Multi faith Group of Equit m Educa representing Aboriginal Buddhist Christian Hindu Muslim and Sikh communities in Ontano submitted its Multi faith Statement on Religious Education and Justice for All in Ontano to the Hon Bob Rae Premier of Ontano and the Hon Boyd Minister of In its statement the faith Group affirms the right of and responsibility of parents to educate their children in con formity with their religious or ideological beliefs This human has been recognized by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1990 both of which have been endorsed by Canada The Multi faith Group affirms also that in a pluralistic society all religious and ideological com are entitled to legal equality and equal educational opportunity and that such equali is guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Ontario Human Rights Code without discnmination ed on religion In light of Premier Raes pro mises to listen to the people the Ontario Multi faith Group states it is looking forward to a period of fruitful cooperation with the Government Bible Digest NONDENOMINATIONAL PENTECOSTAL ALL PEOPLES CHURCH DELIVERANCE CENTRE 41 blvd Bra ma lea S W corner Finchgale Hwy Bible Study Worship Deliverance Sunday 1030 am 7 Wednesday 800 Provide Children Chinch Nutseiy English Italian Pastor George A LeRoy CHURCH OF ST ALBAN THE MARTYR Church of Canada Sir Main SI Mountain Main CHURCH BOARDS Advertise Your Worship Times With Us Call KIM at 8772201 And they have turned unto me the back and not the face though I taught them rising up early and teaching them yet they have not hearkened to receive in struction Jeremiah Have you turned your face or back toward God I encourage you to turn your heart and face toward the Lord You need Him more than you realize to the fruit of his doings Jeremiah 32 The Lord keeps the best set of records in the universe Honor Him and He will bless you This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief Timothy 1 The grace of God is truly amaz Lets take time to thank the Lord for saving us But formfication and all or covetousness let it not be once named among you as saints Ephesians The Lords people are to be a holy people Remember you may be the only professing Christian that some Christian knows Live for Jesus Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint Proverbs 25 Remember when youre temp ted to be unfaithful to family friends and work that you are like a toothache and a pain the foot Dont be a problem Be faithful to the Lord and others and be a blessing For I have satiated the weary soul and I have replenished every sorrowful soul Jeremiah 25 The Lord wants to meet the need of your heart lake your burdens to the Lord and leave them there But ye brethren be not weary in well doing Thessalo- 13 Dont give up Child of God You are making a difference Keep going for the Lord And ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and ad monition of the Lord 64 Dad are you encouraging or discouraging your children Be a Godly example for them They need it in the world in which we live Great in counsel and mighty in work for thine eyes are open upon all the wys of the sons of men to give every one according Teach me thy way O Lord will walk in thy truth unite my heart to fear thy name Psalm Set your whole heart on the things of God He has your best interests at heart Evangelical Fellowship urges religious instruction The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada representing 27 Protestant Christian denominations and several Christian organizations and in dividuals believes that the attempt to eliminate religion from the public school system will lead to defective education for public school students in Without an introduction to the role and importance of religion students will hae an incomplete understanding of the history and nature of Canadian society and societies around the world states the fellowship in a press release Students will also lose the opportunity to develop insights on how to better understand he nature of spirituality and later as adults will be deprived of the basis requird in making choices about what to believe Nor will they learn- about the sources underlying the values of human freedom and fairness which are critical to our religiously pluralistic The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has recommended that the religious dimension of human life and society be ad dressed across the curriculum a well as in optin religious instruc tion courses Local school boards should be empowered to design with the input of parents and local leaders a religious in program best suited to the religious composition of their dent population