Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

You have been entrusted with talents not to be
squandered, but to be put out to the exchangers,
that at the Master's coming He may receive His
own with usury. God has not distributed these
talents indiscriminately. He has dispensed these
sacred trusts according to the known capacity of
His servants. "To every man his work." He gives
impartially, and expects a corresponding return. If
all do their duty according to the measure of their
responsibility, the amount entrusted to them, be it
large or small, will be doubled. Their fidelity is
tested and proved, and their faithfulness is positive
evidence of their wise stewardship, and of their
worthiness to be entrusted with the true riches,
even the gift of everlasting life.
At the conference in New York, October, 1868,
I was shown many who are now doing nothing,
who might be accomplishing good. There was
presented before me a class who are conscious that
they possess generous impulses, devotional
feelings, and a love of doing good; yet at the same
time they are doing nothing. They possess a self-
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