The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-13
ALL SOULS CHURCH.


Sermon by the Row. Edward r. Hale
The Parable OF the Ten Talents.
All Souls church was unusually well filed yes
terday morning (and 1t rarely, indeed, has slim
congregation the pulpit being occupied for the day
by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, OF Boston. The
subject for the discourse was taken from the para
BILE Of the ten talents, and the main lesson en-
forced-thatit is our duty to do well and faithfully
whatever 1t Ia appointed to us to do without re-
gard to the happier fortunes or higher endowments
Of our fellows-though very old one, was Illus
trated with many new examples, told in singu-
larry graceful and vivid rhetoric The preacher
began by abiding to the frequent complaints we
heard from people to whom but one talent had
been confded Of the
HARDNESS OF THEIR LOT
and the slenderness Of their opportunities. Oh,
said they, II we had butten talents like that other
more fortunate neighbOr of ours, or even fve then
indeed, we might do something; but Of what use is
this miserable one talent to usP And thereupon,
like the man in the parable instead OF making the
best use OF that talent which they had they hid it
IN the earth. The real source OF this discomfort
and folly was envy, and the best for 1t was to
make its victims look round and see how much
than mony tsK haa Mn 1e 1e tey naa
was entrusted only the duty OF going on errands
ana who was foolish enough to grumbe at the
important position in the community than the boy
who ran errands badly or the boy who was not
thought worthy to be trusted with an errand at all
AndH
THE POOR SEWING GIRL,
who, as she stitch, stitch, stitched through the
weary hours and lOnged that she might labor with
the pen or the pencil or with her voice. would only
accompany him into the thousands OF misery
stricken homes, where the great trouble was that
their dwellers had not even the talent OF being
able to stitch, she would cease her repinings In
some respects, indeed, those who had but one
talent were more fortunate than those who had
ten. Look through the Gospel where we would we
found that the one virtue most earnestly pressed
upon the notice OF the Christian was sngleness Of
purpose In his pursuit of one true life. This prn-
ciple indeed was carried out and illustrated in the
It down as one OF the great maxims Of military
science that IF you set QUITO
TAKE VIENNA
take VIENNA What he meant was, that the good
general, having fixed upon an objective point Tor
the campaign, would never allow himself to be
tempted away from 1t by any incidental and minor
aims. So, TOO, the people, who were as o mass far
wiser than we gave them credit for in great crises
OF need, always preferred q man who had done
some one thing very well to men who had used
many talents and accomplishments and faculties
with indifferent success. Thus 1t was clear that
one talent well used was sometimes as valuable az
ten. One great difficulty with most OF us was that
we failed to see that the money and stocks and
avocatiOns and trusts with which we had to dc
were but toys, in playing with which our Heavenly
Father permitted us to prepare ourselves for the
ever In view we should cease to complain of the
lowness OF our station, but should cheeriuy SCI
to work to ennoble 1t with earnest and faithful Jul
flment OF Its duties