The Background for Good Conversation : Page 88

In this parable our Lord reminds us that it is our duty to employ our capacities fully — be they large or small. In this parable, the master gave one servant five talents, another two, a third one. The fellow with only two talents used these just as energetically as the one with five, and though he, of course, never achieved more than two fifths as much as the first, the master said to him exactly as to the first, "Well done, good and faithful servant." But the third, backward with his one talent, had buried it altogether, and the master called him a "wicked and slothful servant," and ordered him "cast out into the exterior darkness" (Matt. 25).