Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-19

OF the Lord Jesus, the harder man works
the better hs likes it, and man in this
audience who has been for forty yeas
serving GOD, eEjoys the employ ment bet
ter than when be FIST entered 1t.
THE GRANDEsT HONOR
that Can ever be bestowed ucon you, is 30
have Christ say TO you on the last day
"Well done, COED sud faithful servani!'
Lssra also from this parable thst
differ n qualifications are given 20
different people. The teacher Lifts a
order that oy that disgfsm he may I'M
press the mind OF the pupil with the truth
that he has been utteriIg. And ill tbs
truths Ct this Bible are driTn cut In the
pslural world as in q g.est disgrEm
Here is an acre Of ground that has ten
talents. Under little culture, II yields
twenty bushels CT wheat to the acre.
Here is another piece Of ground that has
only one talent. You may pl3H It. and
harrow i, ant culture is, year sitter year,
but 1t y.eitsk mere pittaucs. So here ia
8 man with ten talents in the way OF
getting good and doing good. rs soor,
under Christian culture, yields grea.
hsrvests OF faith and good work. Here
Is another man VINO seems to have only
one talent, and you may put upon him
the greatest spiritual culture, but he
yields but little Of the fruits Ct
righteousness. You ers to understand
that there are different qualifications for
different individuals. There is d great
deal OF ruinous comparison when msu
says: "01, II l only had that mans
faith, or that mans morey, or that N an .
eloq1ance, how would serve God" Bet
ter take the faculty that God has given
you and employ 1t IN the night way. The
rkbbis used to cay, that before the stoEe
and timber were brought to Jerusaie a
for the temple every stone and piece CT
timber WAS marked; So inst before they
started for JeIusalsm,!h architects knew
in what Place that particular piece OF tim
Der OF stone should fl. And SO l have 20
tell you We ere aIi marked for come one
place in the gres: temple Ct the Lord, ead
co net t US complain, esyiDg: ~ would
like 70 be the foundation Sons or the cap
stone" LeJ us 60 into the very place
where Goa intends US to be, GrG be eE.-
isfed with the position. Your talent may
De In personal appearance; your talent
nay be in
LARGE WORLDLY ESTATE;
your talent may be IN high social posi-.
ton; your talent may be in swift pen Or
eloquent tongue; but Whatever be the
talent, it he's been given only for one pur-
pose-prGcticsl use. You sometimes
ind & man in the community of whom
you sSY: "He has NO talent at sll;" ana
yet that man may have 100 talents. His
100 iGlents may be shown in the item OF
endurance. Poverty comes, and he En-
duIes it; persecution comes, and he en-
dure it; sickness Gomez, aud he endures
II. Before men Snd angels he Is spe:i-
men Ct Christian patience, and he Is
really illustrating the power Of Chris9s
gospel, and Is doing ss much for the
church, and more fJr the church, than
mSny more positively Gctive. iyou have
one tslent, use that; il you have tea
talents, uss them, ssti. ii I'd with the fact
thas We all have different qualifications,
AMI that the Lord decides whether We
ten.
learn also from this parable that the
grace Of God was intended to be accumu-
lstive. When God plants an sCoEp, He
means sn oSk, anu when ne plants smell
smt unit Of grace ia the heart, He intends
II to be growthful and enlarge until 1t
CVeTs1&doWg the whole nature. Thsre
Sre parents who, st tee birth OF esCh
Child, lay aside certain amount iof
money, investing it, expecting By accu-
mutation AID by compound interest, that
By the time the child shall come to mid
life, this snail amount Of money
will be fortune, showing how <
small amount Of money will roll
up into vas5 accumulation. Well, 6 cd
sets asids certain smount Of grace fer
each one OF His spiritual childreL =; his
birth, and it is TO &C or, Gnd, as By COM
pound interest, ecCumuiate, until /. shall
become an eternel fortune. Csn 1t BIS
possible that you hSve been acquainted
with the Lord Jesus for ten, twenty,
thirty years, and that you do NOT love Him
more now than you ever did before? Can
it be that you have been cultured 10 the
Lords vineyard, and tEst Christ finds on
you
NOTHING BUT SOUR GRAPEs?
You may depend upon 1t, Il you do MOI
use the talent thst God gave you, it will
dwindle. TIE rill tha. breS6s from the
hillside will either widen into river CT
dry up. The brightest day started in the
dim twilight. The strongest Christian
man WAS once weak Christlsu. Take
the one talent and make it two; tske five
snd make them ten; take en- and make
them twenty. The grace OF God WAS In
tended 20 be very sccumuIstive.
again: learn from the text that inie
riority Of gifts is no excuse for Incidence
This nan, with the smallest amount Of
monsy, came growing INFO the presence
OF the owner Of the estate, as much as
to say: at you hsd given me $1,000 l
would lave brouEh: SIS. 500 rs well ss
this other nan. Y3u gave me Only $3.50,
Snd hardly thought it was worth while
to use it st gil. So hid 1t IL napkin,
aad it produced no result. It's because
you DIDN'T give me enough" Bus inte-
rIority Of faculties is no excuse fer indo-
lence. Lit me say 10 the man Who has
the least quaLf;ati7rs, BY the grace OF
GOD he may BE- made almost cmoipotent
The merchant whose cargoes come Gu;
from every islar OF the geo, and who, BIZ
one stroke CT the pen, can charge the
whole face OF American commerce, has
not 30 much power rs you msy have be-
fore Goo, in earnest, faithful and coatiru
Gus prayer. You say you have no faculty,
Do you no. understand that you might
tnia afternoon on into vnur ulsca n,