Short Sermons for Daily Life (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Short Sermons for Daily Life Though we have often read the parable of the talents, we have scarcely noticed the middle character - the man with the two talents. Our minds have been occupied with the five-talent man who gained other five talents, and the one-talent man who buried his talent in the ground. The two-talent man has seemed to be placed there just to round out the parable. Yet I am inclined to think that this seemingly unimportant personage is the most important for consideration, because he represents the average individual. There are few persons of exceptionally brilliant endowments. Most of us are two-talent men. Here in America the "average man" is in the majority, and some day it flashes upon us that you and I belong to that vast majority. That may be a critical moment in our careers. Up to that moment we have been so full of ambition, mixed, possibly, with a little conceit, that we believed our powers unlimited, and everything possible. We have made all sorts of excuses to ourselves for being still in a minor position. "Wait," we said, "our time will come; we are not yet old enough; we have not had our opportunity. When it does come we shall astonish the world." Then one day something happens - our failure in a great attempt, the promotion over us of a younger man, the quiet ignoring of our person - and it comes upon us with stunning force that the whole world rates us only as fair to average. Now, it is just at this critical point that the average man needs encouragement, and is least likely to get it. If he confides to someone his ambition to achieve great things, he will probably be laughed at. Sympathy for his early ambitions and dreams he must not look for. And now it rests with him whether he shall rise above or fall below that undistinguished plane of the average man. Let him read over the Parable of the Pounds and sec in the two-talent man who made a success of his life, a possible picture of himself. First I notice that the man in the parable did not sit down and enviously complain because he was given less than one-half as much as his fellow servant. He did not talk of "equality," and "common ownership," and "unfair discrimination." and raise an agitation to compel his master to give him as much. No; he simply went to work with his two talents and he accomplished with them proportionately as much as the five-talent man - that is, he doubled them. The work of the world is being done by the average man. Master minds and great leaders of men are few. The world needs them occasionally and then they appear. But the work of the world must be done day after day through all the ages, and it is being done by the faithful two-talent man. As has been truthfully said, "there is not to-day a more inspiring sight, than to see a man start in life with ordinary capacity, and see his powers grow under his faithful use." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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