LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

"It suffers long, and is kind." All may not be wise and bless humanity
with their wisdom; but a loving, tender heart may be possessed by all
men, and be a blessing always. Material wealth may not be possessed by
the masses; but love may be a treasure for all, to keep warm the
hearthstone when storms beat without, and make glad the fatherless
and the widow in the rainy day of adversity.
Who cannot love? Love children and aged ones; love helpless and
sorrowing souls out of their helplessness and grief.
Drummond says: "The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father, is to
be kind to some of His other children." "Much of Christ's life," he says, "was
spent in doing kind things--in merely doing kind things." Kindness, then,
is the active principle of love, just as patience is the passive principle. It is so
easy to say unkind, to do unkind things; but it is just as easy to learn
how to do and say kind things, if we will--and to be kind.
It is a little thing to love, yet love is the greatest of the graces of
Christian character. It sweetens self-denial, and makes it easy and
delightful. It is the staying quality of a believing soul; it is the crowning
glory of Christian character. If we are asked to do some great thing,
remember, it is to be done in the doing of this simple thing.
My brother, my sister, if God, by the voice of His Spirit, by the word of
truth, by the preaching and practice of His children, should bid you do
some great thing, and that great thing be the building of a character in
accord with His will, would you not do it? Do, then, the little things that
make for character! Use the material within your reach, and do it today!
Be self-denying;
Be patient;
Be courageous;
Be kind and loving.
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