LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

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How much needed in our world! They come as fast as we make room for them, and, by their coming . . . keep out things from beneath, sweeten things present, glorify things to come. Said a great artist: "One ought to see at least one good picture each day, hear one pure sweet song, say a few reasonable words daily, and thereby be all the better for the day." How many servants to help us may we have, if we will! They may be little, but, being many, make quick work. How many hard masters we may serve, if we so choose! Which shall it be, serve or be served? If we seek to serve the highest and the noblest, we shall in turn be served, because we have thus allied ourselves with Him who has put all things in subjection to Him. If our talents are few and small--then all the greater reason for diligence and activity in their employment. If we had ten talents--then we would have ten times the responsibility resting upon us that comes as a burden to the neighbor possessing but one talent. If we do not seek to increase the talent God has given us, would we be more faithful with the larger treasure of time and talent and opportunity? The combination and co-operative services of the marine insect builds for us the coral reef. "All at it, and always at it!" So the mighty task is done by these mites of feebleness, in the multiplied moments of time. Systematic persistence is needed in the material and intellectual world. So great do small things become, that we might well tremble at the thought of any word expressed, or deed done, or influence exerted. Prayer for Divine guidance is absolutely needed to be able to make the most of life. "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord." "When a 14 of 102
man's ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with Him." The mighty forces of the universe are, after all, quiet--they are combinations of minute things that hold in even balance magnitudes of infinite value. The human soul is subject to a multitude of forces seeking to sway it, having an influence one way or another. These forces are often small in ordinary estimation, yet are not to be despised. They are all about us, are the circumstances of our every-day life, making or marring our happiness. They come also from the past-- constant reminders of other days, of a time beyond our time--and must be made to adjust themselves with the present or become anarchists and outlaws, destructive of present peace and order. They are met by the forces from the future, the aspirations and hopes and dreams of better times and better things and a brighter hopes. But all these enter the crucible of the inner consciousness, and, according to the will of him who lives within, there comes forth a belief, an opinion, a judgment, right or wrong, as the dross or the pure truth has been accepted or rejected. From beneath, waging warfare upon the forces from above, secretly, stealthily come evil spirits to entice us. In the center of all these conflicting, antagonist oppositions, the life of every individual soul exists. Woe, then, to him who, witnessing the marshaling of these forces under mighty leadership, shuts his eyes to the result and despises the day and the deed of small things! 15 of 102
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said Socrates, "is no life at all."
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advantages of a free public-school
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into the cab, and, in response to a
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton says that t
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One final and most important truth.
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then, the beginning of that mighty
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only with trumpets and lamps; the M
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If a system of human slavery is to
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Contrast our position with the posi
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that fled from Jehu, Elisha slew;"
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The Orientals have a proverb, "Keep
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that breeds moral disease and leave
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way to justify the theater, as it i
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IX. Lessons Learned Too Late. "Oh,
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the tendencies of his people and th
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and bemoan their folly and their lo
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lessedness of the giver himself. No
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the winds the seeds of the thistle,
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The opportunity that is restricted
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