Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-11-24

temple of tho Lord, and do not let us COM
/ plain, saying: "Igwould like to bc the foun-
4 dation stone on tho cap Stone" Let US go into
1 The very place Whoro God intesMs
| " to be, esM be satisfied with
Z Tie pessses Yesp TALENT smy 30 fia rar-
sonM appearance, your talent may DO Ill
largo worldly estate, your talent may DO i'll
i high social position, your talent may be In n
swift pen or eloquent tongue, but whatever
{ be tie. talent 1t haa been givon only for ono
! purpose use You sometimes find
Z q man In tho community of whom you say:
Is sHe hns no talent at all and yet that man
1 may have hundred talents. His ono hull
s5dred talents may be shown In tho item OF ell
:durauce. Poverty comes, and he endurcs 1t;
. persecution comes, and he cndurcs it; sick
il ness comes, and he endures it. Before men
s.nnd angels he is q specimen of Christian
/ patience, and LIE Is really illustrating the
bpower Of Christs Gospel, and is doing rs
4 much for tho church. and more I r the
scharch than. many moro positively active
ghavo, ono talent, use that; If you liayo
talents nsegt them, satisfied with the fact
;haye iRferept- aliacatims. and
THAI The j lord decides whetherlwe shall bayes
lsoss hoth her Ta shsl hayc
learn MISC from this parable that the
grace of God was iatended to be accumula-
Five When God plants uel acorn, no means
an oak, and when no plants small amount
t.of grace in the heart, he intends 1t to be
ligrowthful and enlarge until it overshadows
| tho whole nature There nre 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 tho child shall como to mid.life
this small amount Of money will DO a for
tune, showing how small amount Of money
will roll up into vast accumulation Well,
I God sets aside q certain amount Of grace for
each one OF his spiritual children at his
birth, and 1t IS to go on, and, as by CON-
pound interest, accumulate, until it shnll
become oh eternal fortune. Can 1t be
possible that you have been acquainted
with tho Lord Jesus for ten, twenty,
thirty years, and that you do not love him
more now than you ever did beforei Can it
! be that you have been cultured in the Lords
vineyard and that Christ finds on you moth
ing but sour grapesa You may depend upon
It. if Won do not use the talent that God gave
you, it will dwindle Tho 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 weak Christian Tnko the
one talent aud make it two; take Eve and
mako them five; take ten and make them
twenty. The grace of God was intended to
DO very accumulativc
MANS LACK OF ADAPTABILITY 10 CIRcUM-
STANCES.
Again: I learn from tho text that inferi-
II L. fNy- fnfN
This man, with the smallest amount Of
money, came growing into the presence of
the owner of the estate, as much as to say:
5sIt you had given ne So, would hnve
brought s1s,SOo as we'll as this other man-
You gave me only sl,SSe, and hardly
Thought It was worth while to use 1t OF all
So hid Il in napkin and 1t produced no
result its 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 lenst qualifications, by the grace
OF God he may be made almost omnipote0t-
The morchans, whose cargoes come out from
every island of tho sea, and who, by one
stroke Of the pen, can change the whole face
I.of American commerce, has not SO
much power US yon may have before
God in earnest, faithful and continuous
sprayer. You say you have no faculty. Do
: yo3 Northumberland that you might-this at-
ternoon 20 into your place Of prayer, and
kneel before God, and bring down upon your
soul, and the souls of Others a blessing so
vast chat it woald take eternal ages to COM
pute it, "Oh," you say, ~ haven't fleetness
Of speech. Icanlt talk well. can't utter
wf,at sans 10 say Ny brrthess san 5ou
nos qtaea che raSsaSSs Of SetfsAisea 3s1n
ezsseo sAss enc pfsscse Of 6crsTurs; eafST it
with you everywhere; quote 1t under oil
proser circumstances With TINT ono pas
sage Of Scripture you may harvest thousand
souls for God. um glad that tho chief
work of tho church IN this day is being done
by the men'of ono talent Onco in while,
when great fortress is to be taken, God will
bring out great Geld piece and rako oil
with tho fiery hail Of destruction. But COM
mon muskcts do most of tho hard fighting.
Il took only ono Joshua, and tho thousands
of common troops under him, to drive down
tho walls of cities, and, under wrathful
strokes, to mako nations fly like sparks from
tho anvil 1t only took one Luther for Ger
many, ono Zwinglius for Switzerland, ono
John knox for Scotland, ono Calvin for
Franco and ono John Wesley for England.
Dorcas as certainly has mission to serve as
Paul has mission to preach. Tho two mites
dropped by the widow into tho poor box will
bo as much epplauded as the endowment of
college, which gets q mans name into tho
newspapers. The man who kindled tho fro
under tho burnt Offering III the ancient temple
had duty Us imperative Us that Of the high
priest, in magnificent robes, walking into tho
HOLY of Holics under tho cloud of Jehovah's
presence. Yes, tho nlen with one talent arc to
save tho world, or it viii never DO saved at
all. Tho men with five or ten talents gro
tempted to toll chiefly for themselves, to
build up thoir own great mama, and work for
their own aggrandizemcnt, and do nothing
for the alienation Of tho worlds woes. Tho
cedar of Lebanon standing on the mountains
seems to hand down the storms out OF tho
heavens to tho earth, but it bears no fruit,
while como dwarf pear tree has moro fruit
on it's branches than it can carry. Better to
have one talcut and put it to full use than
f7o hundred wicl,cdly neglected
TEE INEVITABLE DAY or RECKONING.
NY subject teaches rue that tbero is going
t. come day OF solemn settlement. When
the old farmer of the text got home, 10 i'm.
mediately called all tho servants about him
and said; "Here is tho little account have
been keeping want to see y1ur account,
and wo will first compare theml and I'll pay
you what owe you, and you'll Pay mo what
YOU owe me- Let Us have teJtlement."
Tho day will como when tho Lord Jesus
Christ will appear, aud will cay to you:
.What havo you been doing with my prop
erty? What have you been doing with my
faculties1 What hnvoyol bcaa doing with
what gave you for accunulatlso purposesi'
There will be no escape from that settlement
Sometimes you cannot get settlement with
C. man, especially if he owes you. lie post
pones and procrastinates, and says: "rn
see you next week." or "I'll see you next
month"; The fact is, lie does not want to
settle But when the great day comes OF
which, l am speaking, there will be no es,
, cape. We will have to face ell the bills