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of brotherhood that have been formed on earth are not extinguished, but mul tiplied and strengthened.—Plumptree. Enter into the joy. Here a few drops of joy enter into us; there we are to enter into joy as vessels set in a sea of glory.—Leighton. The Lord’s own joy. Jn. 15:11, Heb. 12:2.—J. F. & B. v. 22. Two talents. Our master does not care about quantity, but quality and motive.—Sel. We must despise no sort of talents; they all have their sep arate duties and uses; all the happiness of many for their object.—Sydney Smith. The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable. __Higginson. It is better to say “this one thing I do” than'to say “these forty things I dabble in.”—Sel." y. 23. Well done. It is a great thing to do a little thing well. Believe that there is nothing too insignificant to carry out well.—Sel. The two-talent man received the same praise and joy as the five-talent man, for he had been in his measure, as faithful as the other. -—Torrey. If the men who. had five talents and two talents respectively had said, “we have worked night and day and it has come to nothing” their reward' would have been just as sure as it was when they doubled the original dowry.-—Parker. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful.—Geo. MacDonald. No grace is more necessary to the Christian worker than fidelity, the humble grace that marches on in sunshine and storm when no banners are waving and there is no music to cheer the weary feet.— Nicholls. What is the difference between seed and fruit? Seed reproduces its kind. Fruit usually conceals, or better, con tains the seed. (Gen. 1:11-12). Fruit
v. 16. Traded with the same. Chris tians are trading with their talents when they employ them to the profit of their own souls and the benefit of oth ers.—Dummelow. A true Christian is a spiritual tradesman.—Henry. As vir gins (first part of chap.) we are to WAIT. As servants we are to WORK. —Compan. Bible. v. 10. After a long time. A hint that the second coming of Christ would be long deferred.—Carr. v. 20. . Brought other five talents. Seed heaped and locked up in a granary breeds worms and moths. Flung broad cast over the furrows it multiplies into seed that can be sown again and bread that feeds the sower.—Maclaren. v. 21. Lord said, well done. Our comfort in the day of account will be according to our faithfulness, not according to our usefulness; our sin cerity, not our success; the upright ness of our hearts, not the degree of our opportunities.—Henry. Faithful ness and truth are the most sacred excellencies and endowments of the human mind.—Cicero. Faithful serv ant. It was his fidelity, not his success that his Master praised.—Torrey. Christ will not have slothfulness or unproductiveness. He will not have the benefits and conditions of heaven wasted and perverted.—Peoples Bible. One deserves small credit for being able to start something. The man who will stay with it is the best man.—Sel. It is far less important to die the martyr’s death than to live the martyr’s life.— Speer. Don’t expect God to put you in a bigger hole until you plug the one you’re in.—McNeil. Make thee ruler. The privileges of heaven will be in pro portion to the services wrought on earth.—Carr. Over many things. Those who have so used their talents as to turn many to righteousness may find new spheres of action, beyond all their dreams, in that world in which the ties
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