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The different measures
of fruitage—the thirty, sixty and hundredfold, or the ten pounds and
the five, mark differences in obstacles to be overcome, etc.,
rather than unfaithfulness in the use of the means of grace.
Some may work long and diligently for small results, while the same
effort in others of more resolute will and of greater continuity may
accomplish great things. Some by slips and occasional backslidings,
from which they subsequently recover, lose time and opportunities
which can never be regained, although they are forgiven and
generously reinstated in the Divine favor, and thenceforth run with
diligence and patience to the
end. Z. '96,99'. |
