LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

The giant oak in its earliest stages fretted not because the stalk of corn
or the sunflower reached up and touched its limit in a season, for in a
season it also faded away.
Peevish discontent destroys all opportunity of making the most of
conditions and circumstances. Every enterprise that has strength, that
has permanency--has had to be indifferent to time, and allow the
coming of days, and months, and years before its growth has fully
matured. Every weakness in reformation, in discovery, in invention, in
social organization, may be traced to undue haste in its
accomplishment. The leaders in astronomical science have held their
discoveries in abeyance for years, in order to test their theories or prove
the accuracy of their laws. He is strong who is content to plod on, to
bide his time, to wait the slow coming of the years, for the development
of thought and purpose, for the acceptance and approval of his work
and of himself. Do not become impatient; commit all things to the Lord.
Let self-denial have an opportunity, if results are slow in coming, that
patience may have her perfect work.
3. Courage.
There is opposition to everything. The timid soul is easily frightened.
The dangers and difficulties we meet are not so formidable as those we
never meet, but that threaten us, yet, at our coming, vanish from our
path.
Courage comes from conviction, and conviction from truth. "First be
sure you are right, then go ahead." Such progress, however, may cost
something, but it may be worth all it costs. You may lose friends,
separate yourself from associations otherwise delightful, and begin life
over again amid new scenes and strange surroundings; but if you are
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