Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-10-08
THE PARABLE OF
THE TALENTS
Sunday sshOoi Lesson fOr Oct. o, 1910
Specially Arranged Tor This Paper

N'I NNhlt lNou MAST hvVu thltNiul over
over many things cutor thou into the
JOY ~ thy lord Matt 25.21
TIME Tu,sday Sft,ruoon. April 4
49, p aO Immediately follow INK the
PLACE ON tho slopes of Mount
OIlN'I overlooking Jerusalem.
Suggestion and Practical Thought
Tho parable shines clearcst IN the
light Of the circumstance. Jesus aud
his disciples are stlll on Olvet. over
looking Jerusalem and the Temple In
AL their glory. Jesus had just fore
told t!eir destruction. Let the dis
ciples learn u necessary lesson from
the cause OF that ruin.
Many and great talents had been
committed TO the Jewish nation. No
nation had ever received so great
trust as they-the divine Revelation,
religious truth, and best Of all the
Messiah. the Son of God; and thus
power to become blessing TO all the
world
This nation hsd refused to use these
talents intrusted TO them. again and
again they had buried the talent In.
stead of using IL, and now they were
about to murder their Messiah in
stead OF using him, and thus to bury
this talent in the earth
The parable lay in fun view before
the disciples eyes What the city
tlen was. multiplied into the new
Jerusalem Of the Revelation, could
have been theirs evermore by faithful
use OF the divinely entrusted talents
The loss of all, the outer darkness
the weeping and gnashiug of teeth,
as the fruit Of unfaithfuiness, lay in
the prophetic vision shown by Christ
And now that buried talent was
brought forth and was to be entrusted
TO the disciples and to the Christian
church they were to found The five
talents were now offered to them, and
the vital question was what they
/ would do with them The two courses
were made very plain to them by the
| parable. II was written in letters OF
/ light on their sky, printed indelbly
on their minds
A man travelling into a far country.
and therefore wishing to leave his af-
/ fairs in competent hands. He repre-
/ sents Jesus Christ who was about to
/ leave his disciples and go to heaven,
which was a far country in the sense
/ that his servants could not have Wis
| ible communication with him lie
was to leave the spread OF the gospel,
and the salvation of the world in the
hands of his discip,es. although he
was with them in invisible but real
| presence.
/ The servants denote all those to
whom the interests of the kingdom OF
heaven were entrusted. The Jewish
rulers are among those represented
by the man with one talent, for they
looked upon the kingdom OF God placed
. in their charge as a matter of smAl
, account compared with their own sell
fish interests. The apostles and early
Christian leaders received some five
talents, some two, some tsie; and so
do all Christ's professed followers, and
all who have received from Christ
the privileges and blessings of his
gospel. The principle applies to all
men, for all have been entrusted by
God with many things.
Robert Louis Stevenson was talking
one day to the children of a school in
Samoa about the Parable of the Tai
ents, and told them there were three
possessed by them all. Tongues, to be
used to make all about them cheerful
and happy. Faces, to be kept as
bright as a new silver coin. that they
might shine like lamps in their homes
Hands, to be kept employed in useful
work cheerfully done
His lord said unto him. Well done.
thou good and faithful servant. He
had his lords approval Faithfulness,
not success, nor the amount gained
was rewarded. God will say Wen
done only to those who have done
well. There are no empty compl-
ments in the day of judgment. Han
del tells us that when he wrote the
'Hallelujah Chorus he saw the heav-
ems opened and al. .the angels and the
great God himself" A modest man
of moderate ability said that he could
not expect Gods Well done, but he did
expect that he would say, Well tried:
Well attempted.
Enter thou into the Joy of thy
Lord, participate in his joy and share
with him in his pleasure. the same
kind of Joy which our Lord himself
feels. Leighton's words on this en-
tering into the Joy of the Lord are
beautiful: 1T is but little we can re-
ceive here. some drops of JOY that
enter into us. but there we shall enter
into joy, as vessels put into sea of
happiness" The joy of the Lord
Jesus Christ, of which The faithful.
like him, shall partake In some meas
ure here, and in its fullness hereafter,
is the Joy Of free activity in doing
right, like the JOY of motion I'm health,
like the song Of bird in the morning.
Edward Everett Hale writing of
George Washington says: "He was