Excerpt from Messiah Pulpit, New York, Vol. 2: Sermons of M. J. Savage; October 8, 1897 Mv subject this morning is the atrophy of faculties and powers through disuse. My text you may find in the twenty-fifth chapter Of Matthew, the twenty-ninth verse: For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away. When, as a boy, I used to be poring over the New Testa ment, not loving it overmuch, as I do now, not under standing it very well, it seemed to me that this was a very hard saying: TO him that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not, or bath very little, shall be taken away even that which he hath. This did not appear to me to be the method of a just God, Of a loving Father pouring out bountifully upon peo ple already full, and withholding from those that were needy that of which they were so sorely in want. But, if we analyze this principle a little carefully, we shall find that it is no imposition of an arbitrary power, but merely the recognition of that which is, so far as we can see, neces sary and eternal in the nature Of things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.