ONE TALENT MEN by S. S. Times

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 1, 1881

ONE TALENT MEN.

By S. S. Times

THERE is nothing that would add more to the power and influence of the church of to-day than the full consecration of the multitude of one talent men in her fold, to the service of God. We need this more than we do men of genius and brillant parts. Our greatest loss of power is here, and here also is the possibility of our greatest gain. Occasionally we see a man liberally endowed—a five-talent man—foolishly, recklessly, squandering his talents, burying gifts wherewith he might have made his own life glorious, and the world brighter and better,—and we greatly regret the loss both to himself and to ourselves. But the great loss the church and the world experience on account of buried talent is not from this quarter. Great indeed, is the loss that comes through the five-talent and two-talent men; but a hundred, a thousand times greater is the loss we suffer from the one-talent men who compose the multitude, and who more readily yield to the temptation to dig and hide—S. S. Times.