Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-30

| ting good and doing good. He soon,
under Christian culture, yields great
harvests of faith and good WORK. Here
is another man who seems to have only
one talent, and you may put upon him
the greatest spiritual culture, but he
yields but little of the fruits of right
eousness. You are to understand that
there are different qualifications for diff
ferent individuals. There is great
deal of ruinous comparison when o man
says: ooh, if 1 only had that mans
faith, or that mans money, or that mans
eloquence how 1 would serve God"
Better take the faculty that God has
given you and employ it i'll the right
way. The rabbits used to say that before
Jerusalem for the temple every stone
and piece of timber was marked; so that
before they started for Jerusalem the
architects knew in what place that partic-
ular piece of timber or stone should fit.
And so / have to tell you we are all
marked for some one place in the great
temple of the Lord. and do not let us
complain, saying: Il would like to be
the foundation stone, or the cap stone."
Let us go into the very place where God
intends us to be. and he satisfied with
the position. Your talent may be in
personal appearance, your talent may be
in high social position, your talent may be
in swift pen or eloquent tongue, but
whatever be the talent, it has been given
! only for one purpose-practical use.
You sometimes find a man in the COM
munity of whom you say: He has no
talent at oil" and yet that man may have
q hundred talents. His one hundred
talents may be shown in the item of en-
durance. Poverty comes, and he endures
/ -, t,n Gry,<a
it: sickness comes,t and he endures it.
Before men and angels he is a specimen
of Christian patience, and he is really
illustrating the power of Christs gospel
and is doing as much forthe church, and
more for the church, than many more
positively active. Ifyou have one talent,
use that; if you have ten talents, use
them, satisfied with the fact that we all
have different qualifications, and that
the Lord decides whether We shall have
one or whether We shall have ten.
the grace of God was intended to be ac-
cumulative. When God plants an acorn,
He means an oak, and when He plants a
small amount of grace in the heart, He
intends it to be growthful and enlarge
until it overshadows the whole nature.
There are parents who, at the birth of
each child, lay aside certain amount of
money, investing it, expecting by accu
mutation and by compound interest that,
by the time the child shall come to mid
life, this small amount of money will be
fortune, showing how small amount
of money will roll up into vast accu-
mutation. Well, God sets aside GER
tain amount of grace for each one of His
spiritual children at his birth, and it is
to go on and, as by compound interest,
accumulate, until it shall become an
eternal fortune. Can it be possible that
you have been acquainted with the Lord
Jesus for ten, twenty, thirty years, and
that you do not love Him more than you
ever did before? Can it be that you have
been cultured in the Lords vineyard and
that Christ finds on you nothing but
> sour grapes? You may depend upon it,
gave you, it will dwindle. The rill that
breaks from the hillside will either
widen into river or dry up. The
brightest day started in the dim twilight.
The strongest Christian man was once a
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
q very accumulatlve,
MANS LACK OF ADAPTABILITY TO CIR
| CUAsTANcEs.
5 Again: learn from the text that in
+. feriority of gifts is no excuse for indo-
r lence. This man, with the smallest
4 amount Of money, came growing into
e as much as to say: IF you had given
f me $1,000 would have brought $1S,SN
: as we'll as this other man. You gave me
g only $3.50, and hardly thought il
: worth while to use it at all. So hid j,
! in napkin, and it produced no result
f It's because you didn't giveme enough.
r But inferiority Of faculties is no excuse
: for incidence. Let me say to the maj
9 who has the least qualifications, by the
i grace Of God he may be made almost
: omnipotent. The merchant, whose car.
goes come out from every island of thu
: sea, and who, by one stroke of the pen
can change the whole face of American
: commerce, has not SO much power as yor
t may have before God, in earnest. faith
C full, and continuous prayer. You SO.
t you have no faculty. Do You not under
: stand that you might this afternoon g
Q into your place of prayer, and knee
: before God, and bring down upon you:
I soul, and the souls of others, u blessing
o so vast that it would take eternal age'
8 to compute it? ooh, you say. Il haven
:, can't utter what want to say" Ny
d brother. can you not quote one passag
!. of Scripture? Then, take that one pas
e sage Of Scripture; carry it with yo'
+ everywhere; quote it under oil prope
: circumstances. With that one pnssag,
II of Scripture you may harvest thou
d sand souls for God. I am glad that tn
:, chief work Of the church in this day j
0 being done by the men Of one talent
II Once in while, when o great fortress
IL is to be taken, God will bring out o grea
e field piece and rake oil with the fer
d hail Of destruction. But common mus
o kets do most Of the hard fighting.
o took only one Joshua, and the thousand
), of common troops under him, to driv,
II down the walls of cities, and, unde
I wrathful strokes, to make nations f.
o like sparks from the anvil. 1t only too
10 one Luther for Germany, one Zwingliu
It for Switzerland, one John Knox TO
" Scotland. one Calvin for France, an
d one Wesley forEngland. Dorcas as Ger
l. tainly has mission to serve as Paul ha
y mission to preach. The two mite
: dropped by the widow into the poor DO
If wilt be as much applauded as the en-
IS dowment of college, which gets
e mans name into the newspapers. TIL
4 I,