The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-11-30

10, 30 years, and that you do not love him
more now than you ever did before? Can il
BE- that you have been cultured in the Lord.
vineyard, and that Christ finds on you moth
Ing but sour grapes? You may depend upon
It, II you do not use the talent that God gave
from the hillside will either widen into d rive,
or dry up. The brightest day started in tho
dim twilight. Tho strongest Christian man
was once o weak Christian. Take the one
talent and make it two; take five and make
them ten; take ten and make them twenty
The grace of God was intended to be very
aecumulative.
Again. l learn from the text that inferior.
man, with the smallest amount Of ol
money, came growing into the presence ol
the owner Of the essate, as much ns
to say: "If you had given me $1,000 I
would have brought 41s, 500 as we'll as this
other man. You gave me only 81 800, and
hardly thought t wus worth while to use
y ell; 30 hid II in napkin, and it pro.
give me enough" But inferiority Of faculties
ts no excuse for Incidence. Let me say 10
tho man who has the least qualifications, by
the grace Of God he may be made almost
olenipotent. The merchant, whose cargoes
come out from every island of the sea, and
who by one stroke OF the pen, can change tile
much power az yon may have before God,
iI earnest, faithful and continuous prayer.
You say you have no faculty. Do you not
understand that you might this afternoon
80 into your place of prayer, and knecl be.
fore God. and bring down upon your soul,
and the souls of othcrs. u blessing 80 vnst
that It IN, would take eternal ages to compute
setne.s t. of speech ssSh Soy, Can't talk a"ysI. vent
l can't utter what Hnnt to sny' "
Nv brother, con ybu not quote one
passage Of scripture? Then, take that one
passage Of scripture; carry it with you every
where; quote It under all proper circun,-
stances. with that one passage of scripture
you may harvest a thousand souls for God.
l am glad that the chief work of the churcl,
in this day is being done by the men of one
talent. Once in IL while, when a great fortress
Is to be taken, God will bring out u grcnt
field piece and rake oil with the fiery hull OF
destruction. But common muskets do most
Of the the hard fighting. 1t took only one
troops under him to drive down the wallis Of
cities, and, under wrathful strokes, to mike
nations fly like sparks from tho nnvil 1t
only took one Luther for Germany. one
zwinglius for Switzerland, one John Knox
for Scotland, one Calvin for France, md ono
John Wesley for England. Dorcns as cer-
tainly has mission to serve as Paul Inns II
by the widow into the poor-box will le
as much applnudcl as the endowment
OF college, which gets II mans name
into tho newspaper. The nun who
kin,ilctl the fire .pler the burnt ofI,ring
in the ancient temple had II duty ns imrcrn-
tive as TINT Of the high priest, in magnificent
the cloud ofJehava,Ss presence. Yes. % the
men with ono talent are'tO save the world.
or it will never lR saved Mt all. The men
with five or ten TALENTS are tempted to toll
chiefly for themselves, 20 l,uld up their own
great nnme, nnd work for their own ug-
grnndizemert, and 10 notih ng for the n!lcvi-
alton of the worIdswoes The cedar Of le-
bnnon standing on the mountain seems to
hand down the storms out of he heavens 10
the earth, but il benrs no fruit while some
dwarf penr tree has more fruit on its branch
es than it can carry. Better to- have one tai
ent mud put it to full use than 500 wickc,lly
neglected.
My snhject teaches me that there ia going
to come II dny of solemn settlement. When
the old farmrr of the text got home he immr-
diuteiy called all the servants about him and
rrid: "liore is the little account | have lmt u
keeping want to sce your account, and We
will first compare them; and Ill pay
you whit owe you, and you n pay me wint
YOU owe mo. Let us have settlement. "
The day will como when the Lord Jesus hrist
will appear, nnd willsaytoyou: "What have
you been doing with my property? What
Lnve you been doing with what ! gnve you
for accumulntive pmrposes?" There will br nc
escape from that settlement. Sometimes YOU
cannot get settlement with mnn. especially
if he owes you. He postpones and procrnsti
Imtes, and says: "I'll see yoInex Week, or
"l1l see you next month"; The fnct is. he
does not want to settle. But when the grent
day comes Of which an speaking. thcre will
be no escape. We will have to ficc AZ the
bills have sometimes been amazed to ece
how al accountant will runlip or down IL long
line of figures. II ] SEE 10 or IL figures in Il
line and attempt to add them up. and
| ndd them two or thre" times, ] make them
different each time. But | hnve admired the
ways an nccountant will take IL long line OF
figures. and without n single mistake. and
with great celebrity, announce" tho aggregate.
Now, in the Inst settlement, there will l,e /,
correct account presented. God has kept I,
long limo Of sins, IL long line of broken Sab
baths. long line Of profunc words, n long
line of discarded sncrpments, IL long line oi
added up, and before angels. and DEVILS. and
men, the aggregate will he announced. Oh.
that will lie the grent day of settlement
have to ask the question: "Am ready for
it?" IL is of more importance to me To an
swer that question in regard to myself than
Ill TeGufu to you, Hnu ~ Is OI more lMll0f-
| tance for you to answer il in regard to your
selftInn In regard to mo- Every nin for
himself in that day. "If thou he wise. thou
shalt be wise for thysclf; If thou scurnes,
thou alone shalt bear it," We are apt 10
speak Of the last day az nh orcnsi0n Of vncif-
eraton-a great demonst ration ofpower and
pomp; but there will he on that day, think,
a few moments of entire silence. ! think II
tremendous, an overwhelming silence.
think 1t will he such n silence ns the earth
never heard. II will be al 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 to our degrees of
usefulness on earth. Several of the commen-
same one ms in Luke. where one man was
made ruler over five cities and another over
two cities. Would it be fair aud right TINT
the professcd Christian man who has lived
very neur the line between the world and the
'lurch-the man who has often compromised
9 Christian characteristic mnu who has
ever spoken out for GOd-the man who has
ever been known as a Christiun only on COM
munion day-the man whose grent struggle
has been to zee how much Of the world he
could get and yet win henven-is it right to
suppose that that man will have ns grand
and glorious Il seat in heaven us the man
who gave all his energies Of body. mind and
entered heaven. but not with the same
startling acclaim as that which greeted
Paul, who had gone under scorchings, and
across dungeons, and through mnltreat-
ments into the kingdom of glory, One star
differs from another star in glory, and they
who toll mightily for Christ on earth shall
have far greater reward than those who
have rendered only half service.
Some Of you are Fastening ON townrd the
reward of the righteous. want to cheer you
up ut the thought that there will he some
Kind of n reward waiting for you. There are
Christian people in this house who are very
near Heaven. This week some of yon may
pass out into the light of the unsctting sun.
! saw blind man going along the road with
his stuff. and ho kept pounding the earth
aud then stamping with his foot, ] said to
him: what do you do that for?'. "Oh."
he said, 81 can tell by the sound of the
some of yon can tell by the sound of your
earthly pathway TINT you are coming ncnrtn q
your fathers house. you, Oh.
weather hraten voyngers, tho storms are
driving you into tho harbor Just ms whom
you were looking for IL friend, YOU cume
up the gate Of his house, and yo,
we're talking with your servant, when
"Come n!' come in!" just so, when You
come to the gate of the future world, and
yon are taken with DEATH the black porter
Mt the gate, methinks Christ will hoist the
window and say: Come in! come in! will
make thee ruler over 10 cities" In an,
ticipation Of that land ! do not wonder that
Augustus Toplady, the author of Rock oi
Ages declared in his Inst moment. 81 have
nothing more to pray for; God has given III,
everything. Surely no man can live on
earth after the glorics have Witnessed =
Oh, my brothers and sisters, how sweet il