Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-11-25
MANS LACK OF ADAPTABIIITY TO CIR
CUMSTANCES.

4 Again: | learn from the text that
inferiority 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 So, 400 / would
have brought sls,S00 as well as this
other man. You gave me only 81, $50
and hardly thought it worth while
TO use it at all. So hid it in nap
kin, and ii produced no result It's
because you didn't give me enough"
But inferiority Of faculties 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
omnipotent. 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 American commerce,
has not SO much power as you may
have before God, in earnest, faithful
and continuous prayer. You say you
have no faculty Do yol not under
stand that you might tbs afternoon
gointo your place of prayer and kneel
before God, and bring doyl upon your
soul, and the souls O. others, a
blessing 50 vast that il would take
eternal ages 10 compute Z, oh
you say, Il haven't teetnesS If speech.
| can't talk well. can't utter what /
want 10 say" Ny brother, can you
not quote one passage Of Srripturel
Then, take that one passage Of Script
urc; carry it with you everywhere;
quote il under all proper circum-
stances With that one passage of
! Scripture you may harvest a thou
sand souls for God / 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 great fortress is to
be taken, God will bring out a great
field piece and rake all with the
fiery hail Of destruction. But COM
mon muskets do most of the hard
fighting. II took only one Joshua,
and the thousands Of common troops
under him, 10 drive down the walls of
cities, and, under wrathful strokes, TO
make nations fly like sparks from the
anvil. Ii only took one Luther for
Germany, one Zwinglius for Switzer-
land, ono John Knox for Scotland,
one Calvin for France, and one John
Wesley for England Dorcas as GER
tainly has mission to serve as Paul
has mission TO preach. The two
mites dropped by the widow into the
poor box will be as much applauded
as the endowment Of a college,
which gets a mans name into
the newspapers. The man who
kindled the fire under the burnt offer
ing in the ancient temple had duty
as imperative as that of the high priest,
in magnificent robes, walking into the
Holy of HOLES under the cloud of
Jehovah's presence. Yes, the men
with one talent are TO save the world,
or il will never be saved at all. The
men with five or ten talents are
tempted 10 toll chiefly for themselves,
to build up their own great name, and
work for their own aggandisement,
and do nothing for the alleviation of
the worlds woes. The cedar OF
Lebanon standing on the mountain
seems to hand down the storms out of
the heavens 20 the earth, but il bears
no fruit, while some dwarf pear tree
has more fruit on its branches than it
can carry. Better 10 have one talent
and put il to full use than five hundred
wickcdly neglected.
THE INEVITABLE DAY OF RECKONING.
Ny subject teaches me that there is
going 10 come day of solemn settle
ment. When the old farmer of the
text got home he Immediately called
all the servants about him and said:
J Here is the little account have been
keeping. | want TO see your account
and we will first compare them; and
Ill pay you what / owe you and
you'll pay me what you owe me. Let
: us have a settlement The day will
; come when the Lord Jesus Christ will
, appear and will say 10 you: What
, have you been doing with my prop
| ertyl What have you been doing
! with my facultiesl What have you
. been doing with what ] gave you for
t accumulaliye purposesr There will
Q be no escape from that settle
4 ment. Sometimes you cannot get a
@ settlement with man, especially If he
9 owes you. lie postpones and procras-
| tinates and says: "I'l see you next
g week. or "I'll see you next month"
, The fact is, he does not want 10 settle.
4 But when the great day comes Of
: which / am speaking there will be no
, escape We will have to face all the
, bills j have sometimes been amazed
10 see how an accountant will run up
or down long line Of figures IL /
see ten or fifteen figures in line. and
J l attempt to add them up, and | add
them two or three times. / mako them
different each time. But ] have ad-
mircd tln way an accountant will
take "a long line Of figups, and with.
out single mistake. and with
great cclcrity, announce the aggre-
gate Now, in tho last great settle
mcnt, there will he a correct account
presented, God has kept "A long line
Of sins, a long line Of broken Sabbaths.
a long line Of profano words, a long
line OF discarded sacamonts, a long
limo Of misimproyed privileges. They
will oil be addcdup and before angels.
and devils, and men, the aggregate
will be announced Oh, that will be
the great day Of settlement. have 10
ask tlo 9upstiou. Am 4 r,adx. o., I. ~,