New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-11-28

| no talent at ALL" and vet that man may
nave a hundred talents. His one hundred
| talents may be shown in the item of endur-
anee Poverty comes, aud he endures it:
/ persecution comes, and he endures it; sick
ness comes, and he endures it Before men
| and angels he is a specimen of Christian
/ paIence, and be is really Illustrating the
/ power of Christ's gospel, and is doing as
much for the church, and more forthe church.
than many more positively active II you
nave one talent, use that; if you have 10
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 TO-
| learn also from this parable that the
| grace of God was intended to be accumula-
| tive. When God plants an acorn he means
an oak, and when he plants small amount
of grace in the heart, He intends it to be
groWthful and enlarged 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
accumulation 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 snail amount of
accumulation. Well, God sets aside
a certain 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 external
fortune. Can it be possible that you have
been acquainted with the Lord Jesus for 10,
~. 30 years, and that you do not love him
more now than you ever did before? Can it
be that you have been cultured in the Lords
vineyard, and that Christ finds on you moth
ing but sour grapes? You may depend upon
1T, II you do not use the talent that God gave
you. it will dwindle. The rilI that breaks
from the hillside will either widen into river
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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 very
accumulatiye
Again, learn from the text that inferior
ity 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 us
to say: IF you had given me $1,000
would have brought SIS 800 as well as this
other man. You gave me only $1,SOO, and
hardly thought it was worth while to use
1T all: So hid it in a napkin, and it pro-
duced no result. It's because you didn't
give me enough" But inieriority 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 you not
understand that you might this afternoon
go into your place of prayer, and kneel be-
fore God. and bring down upon your soul,
and the souls OF Others blessing SO vast
that it would take eternal ages to compute
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tieetness of speech. | can't talk we'll
can't utter what I want to saw
MY brother, can you not quote one
passage of scripture? Then, take that one
passage Of scripture; carry it with you every
where; quote it under all proper circum-
stances. With that one passage of scripture
you may harvest thousand 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 a great fortress
is to be taken, God will bring out great
field piece and rake all with the fiery hail of
destruction. But common muskets do most
of the hard fighting. 1t took only one
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 for Germany. one
Zwinglius for Switzerland, one ohm Knox
for Scotland, one Calvin for France, and one
John Wesley for England. Dorcas as GER
talnly 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 newspaper The man who
kindled the fire under the burnt Offering
IN the ancient temple had duty as impera-
tive as that Of the high priest, in magnificent
robes, walking into the holy of holes under
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men with one talent are to save the world,
or it will never be saved at all. The men
with five or ten talents are tempted to toll
chiefly for themselves, to build up their own
great name, and work for their own ao-
grandizement, and do nothing for the allevi-
alton of the worlds woes. The cedar of Lee
banon 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 it's branch
es than it can carry Better to have one tai
ent and put it to full use than 500 wickedly
neglected.
My subject teaches me that there is going
to come day of solemn settlement. When
the old farmer of the text got home he imme-
diately called all the servants about him and
seid. ''Here is the little account have been
keeping. want to see your account, and we
will first compare them; and I'll pay
you what owe you, and you'll pay me what
you owe me. Let us have settlement y
The day will come when the Lord Jesus Christ
will appear, and Will say to you: sWhat have
you been doing with my property? What
havey you been doing with my faculties? What
have you been doing with what | gave you
for accumulative purposes?" There will be no
escape from that settement. Sometimes you
cannot get asettlement with man, especially
if he owes you. He postpones and procrasti-
mates, and says: Cpl see younext week, or,
"Ill see you next month"; The fact is, he
does not want to settle. But when the great
day comes of which I 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 a long
line of figures. If see 10 or Is figures in a
line, and [ attempt to add them up, and
add them two Or three times, l make them
different each time. But have admired the
ways an accountant viii take a long line of
figules and without single mistake, and
with great celebrity, announce the aggregate
Now, in the last settlement, there will be
correct account presented God has kept
long line of sins, long line of broken Sab
baths, long line of profane words, a long
line of discarded sacrements, a long line Of |
mismproved privileges. They will all be
added up, and before angels, and devils, and
men, the aggregate will be announced oh,
that will be the great day of settlement. I