The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-02-01

teeney. The grace of God was intended IA
DC very accumuiatiye "
-;o AGAIN learn from the text that infe-
r1r sli OF gifts Is no excuse for indolenca
ms man, with the smallest amonnt If
tMoney, came growing into the presence of
ene owner OF the estate MS rnnch o.
70 say: II you had given me 5000 I wnnId
nave Drought SlS,S0O IS well as this other
t tisel- on gave me only $3.50, and hardly
enolgneit was worth while TO use it at ali
90 hid it in a napkin and II produced 20
resuie It's because you didn't give me
enough. But inferiority of faculties
Is no excuse for Incidence. Let me saw
% the man who has the least qualifications.
~ me grace OF God he may be made
aInost omnipotent The merchant. whose
eargoes come out from every island OF the
sea ana WHO, by one stroke of the pen, can
chang', the whole face of American COM
Lnerce; mas not SO much power as you may
nave l'eiore God, in earnest, faithful and
eohtin lous prayer. You say you have no
Iacuitl' DO You not understand that
you N ght this afternoon 60 into your place
/ or prayer, and kneel before God, and
pIlng down upon your soul, and the souls of
others blessing so vast that it would take
/ eternal ages to compute it, "Oh.n Won saw.
i haven't fiee1ness of speech. can
! talk we'll / can't utter what I want TO
say" Ny brother, can you not quote
one passage of Seripturel Then, take
that one passage OF Scripture; carry
IL with you everywhere; quote it under
! all pr1per circumstances With that one
| passage of Scripture you may harvest a
/ thousand souls for God. / am glad that the
| chief work of the Church in this day is being
done BIZ the men of one talent. Once il n
! while, when great fortress is to be ia ken,
Got vi II bring out great field-piece and
/ rake all with the frey hail of destruction
But common muszets do most of the hard
! fighting. 1t took only one Joshua, and the
thousands of common troops. under him, to
| drive iowl. 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 scotsnd one 9n' c 3GRH hq foF
France, and one John Wesley for England
Dorcas as certainly 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 mans name into the
ne wspaEers. The man who kindled the fire
under the burnt offering in the ancient temple
had duty as imperative as that Of the
high priest, in magnificent robes, walking
into the Holy of HOLES under the cloud OF
Jehovah's presence Yes, the men with one
talent are 10 save the world, or it will never
be saved at all. The men with five or ten
talents are tempted to toll chiefly for them
selves, to build up their own great name.
and work for their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
and do nothing for the alienation of the
worlds woes The cedar of Lebanon stand
ing on the mountain seems to hand down the
storms out of the heavens to the earth, but it
oears no fruit, while some dwarf pear tree
has more fruit CT its branches than it can
carry Better 20 have one talent and put it
to full use than five hundred wickedly
neglected.
Ny sub -ect teaches me that there is 60
ing to come day of solemn settlement.
when the Old farmer of the text got home,
he Immediately called all the servants about
him and said: Here is the little account
have been keeping. / want to see your &C
count, and we viii first compare them, and
III pay you what owe you, and you II pay me
what you owe me. Letus have settlement
The day VIII come when the Lord Jesus Christ
viii appear, and viii say to you: what
have you been doing with my property
W hat have you been doing with my facul-
ties. What HAYS you been doing with what
l gave you for accumulative purposesp
There viii be no escaFs from that settle
ment. Sometimes you cannot get "A settle
ment with man, especially if he owes you.
He postpones and prOcrastlnates. and says:
I'm see you next week, or am see you next !
month. p" The fact is, he does not want to
settle. But when the great day comes of
which am speaking, there will be no escape. I
We will have TO face all the bills.
l have sometimes been amazed to see =
how an accountant will run up or I
down a long line of figures II I see I
ten or fifteen figures in a line, and /
l attempt to add them up, and add them 4
two OF three times, l make them different /
each time. But have admired the way IN {
accountant viii take a long line OF figures, i
ana without a single mistake, and with great 4
ceserity, announce the aggregate. Now, in I
the last great settlement, there will be
correct account presented. God has
kept long line Of sins, long liue Of broken
Sab5aths. a long line of profane words, a long
line Of discarded sacraments, a long line of
misimprovea privileges They will all be added
up and before angels, and devils, and men,
the asgregate sFfll be announced. Oh, that
viii be the great day OF settlement. / haYa-.
10 ask the question: Am I realsy Tor
itg It is of more importance % me to
answer that question in regard TO myself
tEaa in regard to you. and it IS OF more
importance for you to answer it in regard TO
yourself than in regard to me. Every man
Tor himself on that day. Every woman for
herself on that day. "If thou be wise thou
shalt be wise for thyself; if thou scorneSt,
thou alone shalt bear It" We are apt to speak
of the last day as an occasion OF voc1era-
tion-a great demonstration of power and
pornp; but there will be on that day, think,
a few moments of entire silence. l think
IN overwhelming silence.
think IL viii be such silence as the earth
never heard Il will be at the moment when
all nations are listening for their DOOM
learn aisv IRON this parable OF the text
that our degrees of happiness in heaven viii
be graduated according TO cur degrees OF
on earth. Severai of the COM
mantators agree IN making this parable the
same one as in Luke. where one man was made
ru.er over five cities and another made ruler
1ver two cities. Would it be fair and right
that tho proiessed Christian man who has
lived very near the lire between the world
md the ChuFcb-the man who has often
his Christian character-the
nan who has never spoken out
or God-the man who has never
zen known as a Christian only OF
days-the man whose great !
truggle has been to see how much of the
World he could get and yet win heavens it
light TO suppose that man will have as
rand and glorious n seat in heaven as the
nan who gave all his energies OF body, mind
nj soul te the service OF Cod Tie diving
hief entered heaven, but not with {
be same startling acclaim as that
shich greeted Paul who had gone ,
lnder screenings, and across dungeons and
through maltreatments into the kingdom of
-lory. One star differs from anther star in
]ory, and they who toll nightly for Christ 7
n earth shall have far greater reward than {
hose who have rendered only half service. r
Some OF you are fastening on toward the
eward Of the righteouz 1 want to cheer
m up at the thought that there will be some
ind Of a reward waiting for yoa. There are
'hristian people in this house who are very
ear heaven. This week some of YOU NAV
ng sun l saw a blind man going c
long the road with his staff. and he
spt pounding tho earth and then n
amping with his foot. Isaid to him: "What !,
. you do that FORE s-0hn he said, Il can :
III by tie sound Of the ground when | am !
ear dwelling And some of you can tell O
y the sound Of your earthly pathway that p
on are Ginning near TO your Fathers house. Y
congratulate you Oh. weather beaten a
oyageIs he storms are driving you into the "
i fsaE d is s as gl1s9 Sea were l99iag for
nd you sFers Ia king with the servant, when {
our friend hoisted the window and shouted: {
Come fnt come inf' Just 50. when you come
0 the gale Of TIE failure world, and yon are
alking with death, the black porter at
he gate methinks Christ will hoist the l
window and say: "Come inl come in l viii {
make thee ruler over zen cities In antlci- :
lation oil that land ! do not wonder that
Augustus Topiady. the author of Crock of
Ages declared In his last moment: Il have s
lothing more to pray for; God has given |
ne everything. Surely no man can live on
arth aftir the glories have witnessed Oh, !
ny brothers and sisters, how sweet it will be, /
lfter the long wilderness march, to get home.
That was a bright moment for the tired
love in the time of the Deluge when it {
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