Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-19


'Oh, if / only had that man's faith, Q
that mans money, or that msn's elc
quence, how I would ssrve God" Bate
take the fscnlty that God has given 20
and employ it in the tight way. The rah
bis used to say, that befare the stone an,
timber were bro5 ght to Jerusalem for th
Temple, every stone and piece of timhe
was marked, 30 that before they starte'
for Jerusalem the architects knew in wha
place that particular piece Of timber o
stone should fit. And 10 have to tell yol
we are all marked for some one place il
the great temple of the Lord, and do no
let rs complain, ssying: "I would like (,
be the foundation stone of the cap store.
Let US 20 in'O the very place where Coz
intends us 10 be, and be satisfied with tt
position.
USE YOUR TALENTS.
Your talent may bs in personal appear
ance; your talent may be in large Worldl,
estate; your talent msy bs in high socis
position; your talent may be in Q swif
pen or eloquent tOogue; but whatever b
the talent, it has btea given only for ont
purpose-practical use. You sometimes
find man in the community Of whom yor
say: HE has no talent at ALL and We
thst man may have q hundred talents. Hi
one hundred talents may be shown in th'
item of endurance. Poverty comes, ant
he endares il; persecution canes AID b,
endures it; sickness comes and he endure
it. Bsfore men aud angels he is q spec:
men of Christian pstiercs. ard he Is really
Illustrating the power of Christ's Gospel
and is doing as much fer the Church, anC
more for ths Church. tba1 many more pos
itivtly active. If you have one talent
asa that; if you have ten tslents, use them
satisfied with the fact that We all have diff
fereut qualifications, and that the Lort
decides whether we shall have one OF
whether we shall have ten.
/ learn also from this parable that the
grace of GJd was intended to bs accumu'
lative. When God plants an acorn, II,
means an oak, and when he plants a small
amount of grace in the heat, He intend:
it to be growthful and enlarge until il
overshado rs the whole nature. There arr
parents who, at the birth Of each child
lay aside certain amount Of money, in
vestipg it, expecting by accumulation ant
by compound interest, that by the time
the child shall come to mid life, thii
small amount Of money will be a foIt1ne
showing how a small amount Of moneJ
will roll up into vast accumulation
Well, God sets aside certain amount ot
grace for each one Of His spiritual chill
dren at his birlh, and it is to 60 on, and
as hy compound interest," accumulate,
until it shall btcjme
AN ETERNAL FORTUNE.
Can it be p ssble that YOU have been &C
q1ainted with the Lord Jesus for ten
twenty, thirty years, and that you do moi
love Him more now than you ever did be
fore? Can it he that you have been cul
tured in the Lords viueyari, and tha
Christ finds on You nothing but sou
grapes? You may depend upon it, If y0r
do not u9e the talent that God gave you
it will dwindle. The rill that breaks from
the hillside will either widen into n rive
or dry up. The brightest day started il
the dim twilight. The strongest Christian
man was once q weak Christian. TAX,
the one talent, and make it two; take fl 81
and make them ten; take ten and make
them twenty. The grace Of God was 10
tended to he very sccumulative.
Again: lesra from the text that infer
iority cf gifts ls no excuse for indolence
This man, with the smallest amount o
money, came growing into the presence o
ihe owner of the eetate, az much a
10 say: 'If you had given So, 400 woult
have brought $l8, 300 Gs well AZ this Othe
man. You gave me only 81 $50, and
hardly thought it was worth while to ut,
it at all. so hid it in a napkin, and i
produced no result. It's because yoI
didn't give me enough" But inferiority
of faculties is 10 excuse for Incidence. Ls
me cav 10 the man who has the least quail
fcations, by the grace of God he may b
made almost omnipottnL. The merchant
whose cargoes come out from every islant
of the sea, and who, by one stroke Of tn
zen, can change the whole face Of Ameri
can commerce, has not go much power a
you may have before God, in interest
f0ithful and continuous prayer. You sa.
you have fScllty. Do you not UNDER TINT
that you might this sfle noon SO into you
place of prayer, and kpeei before God
aud bring down upon your soul, and th'
souls If others, blessing 30 vast that ]
would take eternal ages 10 compute i,
ooh" you say, ~ haven't fleetness o
spea each. l can't talk well. csn't utte
what want TO say" My brother, cal
you not quote
ONE PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE?
Then. take that one passsge of Scripture
carry 1t with you everywhere; quote ]
under proper circumstances. With ths
one passage of Scripture you may harves
Thousand souls for God. am GLAD
that the chief work Of the Church in thiI
day IL being done by the men OF one tal
ent. Once in while, when e. eat for
tress is t, he taken, Gsd will bIiag out 6
great fe'd-pi'ca, aud rake all with th'
fiery ha Of destruction. But common
muskets do most Of the hard fighting. i
took only one Joshua aad the thousand
of common troops under him, TO dive
DO sn the wall, OF cities, and, nnder wrath
ful strokes, to make nations 6y like spnk
from the anvil. 1t only took one Lnthe
for Germany, one Zwinglius TO
Switzerland, one John Kno'
for Scotland, one Calvin 70
France, and one John Wesley for E1g
land. Dorcas as certainly has a mission 4
serve SIS Panl has a mission te preach. Th'
two mites dropped by the window into tn
poor-box will be as much spplsuded as th
endowment of q college, which gets
mans nsme into the newsp'p'rs. Th
man who kin1led the fire under the burn
Offering In the ancient temple had q dut,
AZ imperative as that Of the high priest, IL
magnificent Iobts. walking into the Hol.
of HOLES under the cloud Of Jehovah
presence. Ye', the men with one talen
are 10 save the world, or 1t will never b
saved at all. The men with five or lei
talents ara tempted TO toll chiefly 70
themselves, t, build up thsir own grea
name, and work for their own aggrsnd'ze
msnt, and do nothing for the alleyiatio
of tae worlds WOES The cedar OF Lebanon
standing on the mountsin seems TO ham
down the storms out o. the heavens TO th
earth, hut it bears Bo fruit, while som
Dwarf pear tree has more fruit on IL
brauches than team carly. Better to hsy
one talent and put it TO full uss than fy
hundred wickedly neglected.
A DAY OF SETTLEMENT.
My subject teaches me that there
going TO come day Of solemn settlement
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