OUR TALENTS | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 5, 1868

OUR TALENTS.

Not many years ago, a man appeared at the counter of the bank in Middleton, Conn., asking and receiving specie for bills on the bank to the amount of $1,000. He had kept these bills just as he had received them more than twenty years before. If he had deposited them in a savings-bank, and allowed them to remain on interest, he might have drawn almost three times the amount at the end of this long interval. How many men will appear at the Judgment to give an account of their stewardship, with their talents as little impoverished by a wise and diligent use. To hold aloof from the most active service of the Lord, is foolish, unprofitable, and dangerous. God gives faculties and opportunities to be cultivated and improved by diligent service. Let every man see to it that he makes the most of himself and of his opportunities for advancing the glory of God in the world, for every man must give account of himself to God.