Show STINGY MEN STOP SOUL DEVElOPMENT Rev F FB E B Short Urges Hearers H to Grow Intellectually i and Morally The large congregation at the First Methodist Episcopal church heard an interesting sermon yesterday morning In a unique and impressive manner Dr Short presented the parable of the talents and drew important lessons He said Two classes appear in this parable the master and the servant Each is responsible to the other and each is the complement of the other The mas master master master ter herein was a man plus what he had gathered about him The servants were men plus what was given Riven to them to Invest They had their op opportunity opportunity opportunity to become masters and two of them did One did not The world had not treated him fairly and he sim elm simply simply ply would not even put the one talent in a bank that he bit of In Interest interest Interest terest from It 11 He was too lazy l zy or too grouchy to work The Master of men always places his children where they may use their every ability Dont say that there is nothing for lor you to do that will call out all your powers There never was wasa wasa a time when wise and industrious ap application and fidelity were more valuable valuable valuable able than now and the one that lays hold upon his present opportunity and applies his talent is sure to double that which he be has and to hear Well done The TIle servant that said that he was afraid committed a double crime The community life lost the benefit of his application and his Ids own nature became atrophied He that did not use that which he had lost that which was wa given given giVen en to him and also lost his power to tt enlarge his capacity By nature we are equipped for the struggle of life Ufe This equipment must be developed God has entrusted us with precious posses possessions and We Ye are sim elm simply simpI ply pI stewards and trustees What answer will you OU make m ke on the day of reckoning How have you applied yourself What have you done with your privileges Remember that fidelity Is always rewarded and that slothfulness Is always punished The law that governs here Is inexorable and automatic Enlargement is just justas as much a law In the religious world as in the natural world God wants you OU to grow in ability to do Just as much as ashe he wants you to grow in grace He alms aims at a t the perfect man manThe manThe manThe The teacher the preacher and the philosopher are not expected to make money to ent r Into the business world of trade The Master of men has not endowed them for that work but they the must give what they have they must multiply their talents by ap applying applying applying plying their time and energies toward the enlargement of the intellectual and moral life Ufe of their day Business Businessmen men men that can make money ought to make money and all that they can honestly make Use your our talent to glo glorify gb God and to bless your fellows You business men must give of your wealth God has given you t u the ca capacity capacity capacity to make and entrusted to you the opportunity to make it Now make it and then use it for the uplift of the therace therace therace race The latter is Just as imperative as the former God wants you to grow and giving is a means of or growth How much l did you OU say Love never asks how much Lowe Love does all nil that it Is able abbe and wishes that it might do doa a a thousand times more Friends something very ery precious Is committed commUted to your keeping How Howare Howare Howare are you using It What report will you make when the Master of men shall shaU come Are you ou improving and enlarging and Then you shall hear the well done Dont be a coward and arid bury your talent That Thatis is a wicked act Give an account of thy stewardship today |