One-Talent People

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 16, 1879

One-Talent People.

J. N. Hallock, A. M., publisher of the Christian at Work, delivered an address to the students of Eastman College at its anniversary, in which he said :—

“We are told in a certain old Book, that the Lord called unto him his stewards, and he gave to one, one talent, and to another, ten talents. But the fact is, this poor, miserable sinner who received one talent did not use any talent at all, and the knowledge—foreknowledge—that he was to act in just this way, is undoubtedly the very reason why he did not receive more.”

This may be considered a rather novel way to treat this subject, and hard on the one-talent men; but many of them do show that it would not have been wise to have entrusted them with more,—and perhaps just as well not to have given them any. But they should not forget one thing: their responsibility is proved in the gift, and their character made manifest in their neglect.