The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-06-06
rALMAGE's SERMON.
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE DIS
coURAGED, THE SUBJECT.
sron the Text, Matthew XIV: 1910
Another One"-Ths Duty and the Joy
81 the Christian Is 10 Garry Good
chser-Talent of PersuasIon.

Washington, June 2.-This is dis
course by DR.. Talmage for those given
10 depreciate themselves and who have
an Idea that their best attempts amount
10 little or nothing. Text, Matthew
XIV, Is: ITO another one
Expel first from this parable of the
talents the word "usury" 1t ought to
have been translated interest" "Usu-
ry" is finding a man in tight place
and compelling him to pay an unrea-
sonable sum to get out. Interest is
righteous payment for the use of
money. When the capitalist of this
parable went off from home, he gave
to his stewards certain sums of money,
Wishing to have them profitably in
vested. Change also your idea as to
the value of one talent You remem-
Der the capitalist gave to one of his
men for business purposes five talents,
to another two, to another one What
small amount to this last, you think,
and how could he be expected to do
anything with only one talent? l have
to tell you that one talent was about
$1,000, 30 that when my text says, ITO
another one it implies that those
who have the least have much.
Wasting tho Talents.
We bother ourselves great deal
about those who are highly gifted or
have large financial resource or exalted
official position or wide reaching OPP
portunity. We are anxious that their
wealth. their eloquence, their wit. be
employed on the right side. One of
them makes a mistake, and we say,
What an awful disaster" When one
of them devotes all his great ability
to useful purposes, we celebrate it; we
enlarge upon it; we speak of it as
something for gratitude to God. Mean
while we give no time at all to con-
slider what people are doing with their
one talent, not realizing that ten peo-
pie of one talent each are quite as i'm
portant as one man with ten talents.
In the one case the advantage or OPP
portunity is concentrated in single
personality, while in another it is di-
vided among ten individuals. Now
what we want to do in this sermon is
to waken people of only one talent to
appreciation of their duty. Only few
people have five talents or ten talents,
while millions have one. My short
text is like galvanic shock Ito an
other one"
Carry Good Cheer.
Is it a cheerful look? Carry that
look wherever you go. 1t must come
from cheerful heart. 1t is not that
inane smile which we sometimes see
which is an irritation. In other words,
it must be light within us so bright
that it illumines eye, cheek. nostril
and mouth. Let ten men who are &C
customed to walking a certain street
every day resolve upon cheerful
countenance as a result of cheerful
heart, and the influence of such ia
cial irradiation would be felt not only
in that street. but throughout the
town. Cheerfulness is catching. But
a cheerful look is exceptional. Exam
inc the first twenty faces that you meet
going through Pennsylvania avenue or
Chestnut street or Broadway or State
street or La Sale street or Euclid ave-
nue., and nineteen out Of the twenty
faces have either an anxious look or
a severe look or depressing look or
an avaricious look or a sneering look
or vacant look. Here is mission
airy work for those who have trouble
Arm yourself with gospel comfort
81 No u-ho fa1
Martha at the loss of their brother, the
God who soothed Abraham at the loss
of Sarah and the God of David, who
consoled his bereft spirit at the loss
of his boy by saying, II shall go to
him." the God who filled St. John
with doxology when an exile on barren
Patmos and the God who has given
happiness to thousands Of the bank
rupted and prosecuted, filling them
with heavenly riches which were more
than the earthly advantages that are
wiped outlet that God help them.
If he takes full possession of your ma
ture, then you will go down the street
a benediction TO all who see you, and
those who are in the tough places Of
life and are run upon and belied and
had their homes destroyed will say:
"If that man can be happy. l can be
happy. He has been through troubles
as big as mine. and he goes down the
street with face in every lineament
of which there are JOY and peace and
heaven. What am l grooming about?
From the same place that man got his
cheerfulness can get mine. Why art
thou cast down. o my soul. and why
art thou disquieted within me?
New Race OF Ministers.
More people go now to church than
ever in the worlds history, and the
reason is in all our denominations
there is new race of ministers STEP
ping into the pulpits which are not the
apostles of humdrum. Sure enough,
we want in the Lords army the heavy
artillery, but we want also more men
who, like Burns, farmer at Gettys-
burg, took musket and went out on
his own account to do little shooting
different from the other soldiers. The
church OF God is dying of the proprie-
ties. People who in every other kind
of audience show their emotions in
their countenances in religious assem-
blies while we are discussing coming
release and the joys of heaven look
as doleful as though they were attend
ing their own funeral. Ny friends, If
you have the one talent of wit or hui
NOR are you using it merely to make