Sunday Column.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 May 1913, Page 4

Sunday Column.

| SERMON IN BRIEF (By Alexander -McLaren). "And lie called his ten servants and delivered thorn ten pounds, and said unto thorn, occupy till I come." Luko six, 13. We have four things here which, keeping tho metaphor of the text, I may designate as the capital, tho 'business, tho profits and tho audit. Tho Capital. j A pound was a vory little thing foi ' a prince to leave for his servants to j trade with, when ho himself was goi ing to get a kingdom. The smallest | gift is, I think, as essential part of : the representation. May it not ho intended to point out to us this Iceson—how small, after all, even the high gift that we oil receive alike hero is, in comparison with what wo are designed to receive when tho Kingdom comes? Even the salvation that is in Jesus Christ, as it is at present experienced on earth, is but like tho one poor pound that was given to tho servants, as compared with the unspeakable wealth that shall be theirs—the ten cities, the five cities, and all the glories of supremacy and sovereignity, when He comas. The Business. Now a word about the trading. You Christian men and women ought to make your life and your Christian service a matter of business. Put the same virtues into it that somo of you put into your trade. Your best business in this world, as tho Shorter Catechism has it, is to glory God and enjoy Him for ever. And the salvation that you have got, you have to trade upon, to make a business of, to work it out, in order that, by working it out, by living upon it, and by living bv it, applying its principles to daily life, and seeking to spread it among the people it may increase and fruitify in your hands. Tho Profits. The immediate results are in direct correspondence and proportion to the immediate activity and diligence. The truths that you live by, you will believe more because you live by them. Tho faculties that you employ in Christ's servico wil grow and incroase by reason of your employment of them. The Audit.

"Till I como," or "Whilst T am Coming." As if all through the ages the King was coming, coming nearer. Wo must work as remembering that everyone of us shall givt an account of himself and his trading unto the Proprietor when He comes again.