The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-08

is q man Win ten talentS III
getting good and doing COED ne so9a
under Christian culture, slus grg
harvests of faith and good oIk. NJ
is another mar who seemsir nave onty
one talent, and you Iic- ~ upon mn
the greatest spiritu eiiffS e, pu. ne
yields but little Of the ffa OF Iignte-
business. You are II aallu .nae
there are different gaai a.iohs IoI
different individuals Thd 10 great
deal of
RUINoUs CtMPARt9oN
when a man saws: .,oh. l only had
that MANS faith or that hams money,
or That MANS %eloorence how I would
serve Godn Better take The faculty
that God has given Won aud employ it
in the right way. The ra'pois useu "
say, ;iIat before tn steone anu lIinDer
were brought ols'eIGsaIen ios ene
har was markad2 50 that before they
started for .Jerukalem the architects
knew in What INce that particular
niece Of timher y stone should fit.
| And so 7 have L. Nell you we are all
marked for some d. place in The great
temn1e II the Lord atd do not let us
comnlain savino.1' aTSwoUld like to be
the fonndationstone Ok the cap-stone.n
Let, us go into the WIZ pace Wnere
God intends US ia be, GSIl 70 satlsheu
with the position. Your taifsne may oe
in personal appearance; yu. llent
may be in large worldly eS'a.ei your
talent may he i'll high soci8ll positioh;
your talent may te al aSwMs q Q
/ nInn,,npt fnpo,,o, hat x,bofouar - LUe
talent, it has been given only for onH
purpose-practical use. l
You sometimes find u man In the
community of whom you say: s.He
has no talent at alp; and yet that man
may have a hundred talents. His one
hundred talents may be sh0ygti the
item of endurance. Poyr1ty CONF
and he endures it; persecf klon ceMes,
and lie endures it; sickness Ne9es, y
he endures it. Before men andiangeis
he is a specimen of Christian patience,
and he is really illustrating thef power
of Christ's Gospel, and is doing az m9cn7
for the Church, and more for Z
Church, than many mo- nnas's
active. If you have n s..--it, use
that; If you have ten talents, use tps.m,
satisfied with the fact that we allscssy
different qualifications. and thatSSSSle
Lord decides whether we shall havrsS &c
or whether we shall have ten. EsS
l learn also from this parable kad61
the grace of God was
INTENDED TO BE AccUMULATIyE. -
When God plants an acorn, He means,
an oak; and when He plants a small
amount Of grace in the heart, He in
tends it to he growthful, and enlarge
until it overshadows the whole nature.
There are parents who, at the birth of
each Child, lay aside a certain amount
OF money, investing it, expecting, by
accumulation and by compound Ninter- |
est, that by the time the chid shall
money will be q fores- s1w
a small amount Of money VIII roll up
into a vast 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 eternal fortune. |
Can it be possible that you Lave been
acquainted with the Lord Jesus for
ten, twenty, thirty years, and that you
do not love Him mor now than you /
ever did before? Can 1t be that you |
have been cultured in the Lords vine- /
yard, and that Christ finds on you
nothing but SOU grapes2 You may |
depend upon it, il you do not use the !
talent that God gave you, IT will dwin-
die. The rill that breaks from the hill |
side will either widen into u river or |
dry up. The brightest day started in
the dim twilight. The strongest Chris
tian man was once a weak Christian. /
Take the one talent, and make 1t two;
take five, and make them ten; take ten
and make them twenty. The grace of
God was intended to be very accumula-1
tive.
Again: l learn that inferiorlty Of
gifts is
M rxc,7sEroR ,Nnoy rNoE
This man, with the smallest amount OF
money, came growiii.s iatelha pres
ence OF the owner OF the estate, as
much as to say: slf you had given
me $1,000 | would have brought $lS.-
500 as well as this other man. You
gave me only $3.50, and l hardly
thought it was worth while to use it at
all. SO / hid 1t in q napkin. and 1t
produced no result. It's because you
didn't give me enough" But inferi-
1ri.y Oh Ia ~ ma sa - ~ ~ AZ ea, muse iUI n ~
the least Qualifications. by the q Of
God he may be made almost omnipo-
tent. Tie merchant whose carcoes
come out from every island Of tile sea. |
and who. by one stroke2of the pen. can
change the whole fade of American |
commerce, has not SO much power as
Won NAV have before dod in earnest
faithful, and continuous prayer, You
saw YOU have no faculty. Do you not
understand that you might this after
noon 90 into YOUR plae Of PRAYER and
kneel before God. and ing down upon
your soul. and the sb1ls Of others. d
blessing SO vast that &c would take
| eternal ages to compute it? "Oh.n|
YOU saw. II haven't i~ieetness Of speech.
/ can't talk well. 1 can't utter what /