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Matthew 25:29

Matthew 25:29

Talents improved are multiplied; talents misimproved are resumed by their owner. Apply this principle of the Divine government: (1) To personal endowments; (2) to providential advantages; (3) to religious privileges; (4) to spiritual blessings; (5) to opportunities of Christian work.

G. Brooks, Five Hundred Outlines of Sermons,p. 372.

References: Matthew 25:29. R. Heber, Parish Sermons,vol. i., p. 165.Matthew 25:30. J. Natt, Plain Sermons,p. 384; S. Greg, A Layman's Legacy,p. 135.

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