LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

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"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. 24 of 102
If there is any other virtue, think on that; and, with Divine help, do it also! III. Little Things that Make for Happiness "Many are asking: Who can show us any good?" Psalm 4:6 The universal search of man is for a state or condition of undisturbed happiness. Men toil and scheme, early and late, to secure wealth, in order that they may use it for their own happiness. Let us do this, they say, in order to be "happy." Let us go yonder to increase our happiness. Or let us have this or that--and then we shall be "happy." This is the thought, the plan, the conversation of multitudes of restless mankind. Can happiness really be found? Is it not like the fitful fire of mocking fate, that allures and leads on--and disappears just as one is about to seize it? Is it not the fabled pot of gold at the rainbow's end? In childhood, is not happiness somewhere in the Grown-up-land? In manhood and womanhood, is it not "When I'm married?" "When I've settled in business for myself?" "When I have a home of my own and can do as I please?" Does not a quiet retreat on the sunset side of life (old age), work all done, watching the shadows as they "grow a little longer"--seem to be the place and the time of happiness? 25 of 102
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