LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

It is well known that the art of printing, probably the parent of more
good than all others, owes its origin to crude impressions taken, for the
amusement of children, from letters carved on the bark of a beech-tree.
This was a slight matter, which thousands would have passed over with
neglect.
The stupendous results of the steam engine may all be traced to an
individual observing steam issuing from a kettle, just emptied, and
placed casually close to a fire. So almost all the great discoveries in
science were apparently stumbled upon. Their first intimations of
usefulness were slight, but were not ignored or despised. To these
intimations the world owes much for its present greatness in
commercial and mechanical arts. They are the Nazareths of science, out
of which have come great good. Let them not be despised.
But our theme does not demand from us a defense in behalf of evil.
That would scarcely be possible. We are under no thanks to sin for any
of the blessings we enjoy. No apparent good is ours, because of the
existence of evil. If we have been privileged to reach higher heights
after having touched lowest depths--the thanks are due to Him who has
had compassion upon us in our low and lost estate, has heard our cry,
and has stooped to save us. All the good that has come to us, and may
yet come, is because of God sovereign mercy. "All things work together
for good to those who love God." "For we are more than conquerors
through Him that loved us." "Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory,
through our Lord Jesus Christ;" not through sin, but through Christ.
That which is apparently evil, or apparently small or inadequate, may
not really be so. The weak things of earth have been chosen to confound
the mighty. These may be weak, looking at them from a human
standpoint, but not so when we discover that God is in them. They are
the Davids that stand before the Goliaths of sin; the Gideons, armed
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