LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

I. Little Things that Make for DESTINY
"Who has despised the day of small things?" Zechariah 4:10
The question of comparative values is an important one. How to
estimate properly the worth or service of one event in comparison with
another, how to form a just judgment of the relation of one truth or fact
to another-cannot be permanently determined.
Values change with the changes of time and circumstances and
conditions. That which was adjusted yesterday, in the scale of relative
importance--may tomorrow rise in value or become of little worth.
Hence, he is reckless who undertakes to classify in order all the events
or forces of human life, despising the one and exalting the other
according to his judgment, finite and limited as it is.
The possibilities of good or of evil in any act or person cannot be
ascertained by other than God Himself. The far-reaching influence of a
word or a deed is limited by the horizon of the finite one, while great
expectations have been subjected to sore disappointment. That which
cost time and thought and treasure, that which occupied the attention
of a nation and stirred into activity--may have soon subsided and
assumed its proper place in history as only a ripple on the placid sea of
human interest.
But what momentous events have been recorded whose beginnings
could scarcely be traced, so insignificant were they! History is crowded
with facts illustrative of this truth.
Scientific discoveries are due largely to simple hints, which to an
unobservant mind would never have been heeded. As the whole realm
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