purpose, or brave-spirited enough to make ventures in His cause, at least his very fear might have impelled him to be active. “Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine own with interest.” It is true that God’s claim is always in proportion to the opportunity He gives: that to whom little is given of him little shall