The Monroe journal., 1922-02-14
ONE TALENT MAN THE ONE
WHO GROWLED THE MOST
But the Temptation of the Five Talent
Man Is to Lie Down on Job Too
Quickly, Says DIR. Weaver

In his Sunday evening sermon in
Central Methodist church DR.. c. c.
Weaver handled a big subject in a
masterful manner. He talked on the
subject, Temptations OF the Talents"
and suggested that all men run up
against temptations that test the use
of their talents and that they are
prone to yield to the temptation to
fail 10 use their God-given faculties.
n regard to the five-talent man
Dr. Weaver said his temptation is TO
quit too soon-that because of the
fact that he is possessed of a greater
amount of ability than the average
man and that people tell him of his
wonderful accomplishments he often
gets the idea that his work is so sat
isfaclpry that it isn't necessary for
him " mt forth any great effort,
and CO quently he falls short of
what hC might and should accom-
plish. He illustrated his point this
way: Here's a man who is going TO
run a race with another fellow and
he has a half mile the start, but
when the end of the race is reached
he may be only quarter of mile in
the lead; yet because he reached the
end Of the track ahead of his oppon-
ent people proclaim him the winner.
Just because a man Of five talents
comes out ahead of the one or the
two talented fellow declared the
speaker. "is no evidence that he has
done his duty"
'The temptation of the two-talent-
ed man." said Dr. Weaver, ''is dis
content-that he often realizes the
fact that he can't accomplish what a
five talented man can do and sulks
on the job" He gets the idea that il
he cannot do big things he is not es-
pecially under obligations to do any,
thing and he quits trying. AS an H.
lustration he referred to preachers
who sometimes become discouraged
because they can't preach like some
other minister. and also to musicians
who lose interest after hearing mas
ter musician, when at the same time
| there may be hundreds of people who
really get more out Of the efforts OF
the lesser talented musician.
"The one-talented person often
treats his talent with contempt
said the preacher, because his SER
vice is small. and yet that service Is
needed and IL it is not rendered the
world suffers because OF the failure
and the individual who refuses tC
use that one talent is condemned be.
cause OF his attitude"
| "Non-use OF the talents leads &c
inability to use them" he declared
land II Is not abuse but non'use
that the Lord condemns in the story
of the talents" He declared that a
man who refuses to use his talent:
soon reaches the place that he doesn't
see anything TO do and he sits down
and refuses to try.
The speaker then referred to the
fact that the only fellow who brought
charges against his Lord in the story
OF the talents was the one who had
hid the money and did nothing at all
$50 it is with people of modern
times" he declared, "the fellow who
engages in criticism and abuse oi
others is the one that does nothing
himelf.
| The congregation at the Sunday
evening service was large and the
message was well taken and every
one went away feeling that he has
something to do in life, whether he
be one, two or five-talented man