The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-19

| or HoI was intended to be acCumulatlve. When
| God plants an acorn, he means an oak, aud
| when he plants a small amount Of grace in the
| heart, he intends il to be growthtul, and ell
large until IL overshadoNs the whole nature.
| There are parents who. at the birth OF each
| enid lay aside a certain amount of money, IN
veStng 1t, expecting by accumulation and oI
compound interest, that by the time the chill
shall come to lnid-lite, this small amount OK
money will be fortune, showing how small
amount of money will roll up into a vast ssccu-
muatiol. Well, God sets aside a certain amount
OF grace for each OF his spiritual childr ,u al
his birth, and it is to go on, aud rs by compound
interest. accumulate, until it Shall become all
| eternal fortune. Can it be possible that you
have been acquainted with the Lord Jesus for
ton, twenty, thirty years, and that You not
| love nun more now than you ever did before!
| Can it be that you have been cultured i'll the
Lords vineyard, and that Christ finds on you
nothing but sour grapesy You may depend
| upon 1t, II you do not use the talent that GOO
gave you, it will dwindle. The rill that brsaks
from the hillside will either widen into n river
or dry up The brightest day started in the
dim twilight. The strongest christian man was
once weak christian. Take the one t:lent
and make 1t two take five aud maze them ten;
take ten and make them twenty The grace of
God was intended to he very accnmulative.
Again: learn from the text that inferority
of gifts is no excuse for Incidence. This man,
with the smallest amount OF money, came
growing into the presence of the owner OF the
estate, as much as to say: "If You had given
me $1,000 would have brought Sls,s0O as well
and hardly thought it was worth while TO use
It at oil. SO hid it in u napkin, and II pro
duced no result. Us because You didn't give
me enough" But inferiority of faculii les is no
excuse for Incidence. Let me say to the man
who has the least qualifications, by the grace
of God he may be made almost omnpotent.
The merchant, whose cargoes come out from
every island OF the sea, and who by one stroke
| of the pen, can change the whole face of Amer
| ican commerce., has not So much power as you
may have before God in earnest, faithful and
continuous prayer You say you have no fac
| ulty. Do you not understand that you might
| this afternoon go into your place OF prayer and
| kneel before God and bring down upon your
| soul, and the souls of others, blessing so
to compute 1t? "Oh," you say, ~ haven't flDet-
ness of speech. can't talk well l can't utter
| what want to say" My brother, can you not
quote one passage of scripturei Then, take
| that one passage of scripture; carry it with
| you everywhere; quote it under all proper cir
cumstances. With that one passage Of scrip
| ture you may harvest a thousand souls for God.
i am glad that the chief work of the church in
| this day is being done by the men of one talent.
Once in a while. when a great fortress is to lie
TAKEN God will bring out a great field-piece and
rake all with the fiery hail OF destruction. But
common muskets do must OF the hal d fighting.
1t took only one joshua and the thousands of
common troops under him. to drive down the
walls of cities, and, under wrathful strokes, to
make nations fly like sparks from the
anvil 1t only took one Luther Tor
Germany, one Zwinglius for Switzerland,
one John Knox for Scotland. one Calvin
for France and one John Wesley for England.
Dorcas as certainly has mission to serve 10
Paul has a mission to preach. The two mites
| dropped by the window into the poor box will
| be as much applauded as the endowment OF a col
| lege which gets mans name into the news
papers The man who kindled the fire under
| the burnt offering In the ancient temple had a
| duty as imperative as that of the high priest in
magnificent robes, walking into the Holy Of
| Holes under the cloud OF Jehovahs presence
| Yes, the men with one talent TO save the
world, or it will never be saved at all. The men
| with five or ten talents tempted to toll
| chiefly for themselves, to build up their own
| great name, and work for their own aggrandize-
| ment, aud do nothing for the alienation of the
| worlds woes. The cedar of Lebanon standing
| on the mountain seems to hand down the storms
out of the heavens to the earth, but it bears no
fruit while some dwarf pear tree has more fruit
on its branches than 1t can carry Better to
have one talent and put 1t to full use than five
hundred wickedly neglected.
My subject teaches me that there is going to
come q day of solemn settlement. When the
| old farmer Of the text got home, he imme-
| diately called all the servants about him, and
| said: Here Is the little account | have been
will first compare them; and I'll pay you what
| l owe you, and you'll pay me what you owe
| me. Let us have settlement" The day will
come when the Lord Jesus Christ will appear,
and will say to you: What have you been
doing with my property What have you been
| doing with my facultiesi What have you been
| doing with what gave you for accumulative pur.
posesW There will be no escape from that settle
| ment. Sometimes you cannot get a settlement
with man, especially II he owes you. He
| postpones and procrastinates, and says: "Ill
| see you rext week" or IN see you next
month" The fact is he does not want to set
tle But when the great day comes Of which
am speaking there will be no escape. We will
| have TO face all the bills. | have sometimes
| been amazed to see how an accountant will run
| up or down long line OF figures IL | see ten
or fifteen figures In a line, AID attempt TO add
| them up, and add them two or three times, |
| make them different each time. But have ad
mired the way an accountant will take a long
| line Of figures, and without a single mistake
Ii and with great celebrity, announce the aggregate
| Now, in the last great settlement there will he
correct account presented God has kept a long
| line of SINS lOug line OF broken Sabbaths, a
long line of profane words, long line OF dis
carded sacraments, long line Of mis-
improved privileges. They will all be
added up and before angels and devils
| and men, the aggregate will be an
| nounced. Oh, that will be the great day Of
settlement. have to ask the question; Am
l ready FOR it?' IL is OF more importance to me
| 10 answer that question In regard TO myself
| than In regard to you; and II is OF more inn
| portance for you to answer il in regard TO your
self than in regard to me. Every man for him
self in that day Every woman for herself in
that day "If thou be WISE thou shalt be wise
| for thyself; if thou scornest. thou alone shah
bear It," We are apt to speak Of the last day
| as an occasion OF vociferation--a great demon
blrdtlOn Oh power DuJ LHeTb wiz DO
| on that day, think, a few moments Of entire
| silence think a tremendous, an overwhelm
| ing silence / think it will be such silence
| as the earth never heard. IL will be at the
moment when all nations are listening for their
doom.
| | learn also from this parable OF the text that
our degrees OF happiness in heaven will be
graduated according 20 our degrees OF useful
ness on earth. Several Of the commentators
agree in making this parable the same one az in
Luke, where one man was made ruler over i've
cities aud another made ruler over two cities.
Would IL be fair and right that the professcd
christian man who has lived very near the line
between the world and the church-the man
who has often compromised his christian char
acter-the man who has never spoken out for
God-the man who has never been known as
christian only on communion days-the man
whose great struggle has been 10 see how much
OF the world he could get and yet win heaven
is II right TO suppose that that man will have as
grand and glorious seat in heaven as the man
who gave all his energies Of body, mind and
| tered heaven, but not with the same startling
| acclaim rs that which greeted Paul. VINO bad
| gone under Bcorchings, and across dungeons.
| and through maltreotrnents into the Kingdom
| of glory. One stlT differs from another star IN
| glory and they who toll nightly for Christ on
| earth shall have far greater reward than those
who have rendered only half a service.
Some OF you are Fastening on toward the re-
| ward or the righteous. i want 70 cheer you up
| reward waiting for you. There are christian
| people in this house who are very near heaven.
| This week some OF you may pass out into the
| light OF the unsetting sun. saw bind man
| going along the road with his staff and he kept
| pounding the earth end then stamping with ms