Notes of a Sermon Preached by the Rey. C. E, Darwent in Union Church, Tientsin, on Sunday evening, March 17 ext: St. Matthew XXV reeeisra the ten talents cane 6 tu me tien talents, Lo, L have 2. "And he also that had and said, Lord, thou delivered st gained other two tatents Pwo of the tien who are figures in this parable one h about. The snarl of fiv deed—he is and influen! good care that he is not lost sight Of He gots into. the limelight,
are light. "Zs light are dant "Wy "hidden under a bushel," if can help it, and he generally can, He is the great genius, the "eaptain of industry," the head of a vast business, the great scientific vestigator," out of whom and his discoveries the great finan-devs hope to make a lot more money. And no doubt, we cannot very well do without them, if we want to progress. We should not have much to read, if they had not, written books, and should still go to the se: in carts unless one of them had given us railways. There is a rear deal to be said for the man th five talents. If there is not, then all our monuments to. then tu sheer vanity. No doubt we ight to be thankful for them, the veal oftes come so. Yare for it was Andrew Long who aid no doubt truly, that "it be ton thousand years, before aman ig born wi as much humour as Charles Dis ens."
Phon, we hear enough about the man with one talent. He has ceived note attention from pre ers than either of the others fear that that is rather a reflexion on the audiences that preachers address, Often enough, alas, the man of one talent does nct bring back the one talent that was gi him, He has "spent all," and as Ruskin once said, "he brings back only the dust, of his body and the wreckage of his soul." Though whether ho does that. more frequent.
than the man of five talents T am not sure. Several five-talent-cal men, have got into prison Intely for mishandling money entrusted to Five-Talents goes wrong, he goes them. When Mr. very wrong,
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