LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

motives may have been questioned, against whom there may exist great
prejudice, but whose ultimate object may be hailed with unsurpassed
delight--the prohibition of the liquor-traffic.
These and kindred reforms contain the germ of great good, though they
may be surrounded by the husks or shells of apparent evil. When
inclined to doubt the outcome of any desirable good because of its
meager origin or support, remember Epworth and the Wesleys;
remember Wittenberg and Luther; remember Nazareth and the Master
Himself, who said that out of the mouths of babes and sucklings God
has perfected praise.
Can any good come out of evil? "Come and see." The little group of
patient followers along the shores of Galilee and the Jordan has grown
to a vast multitude of earnest people, going among all nations, in all
climates. These followers of the Nazarene are among the advance guards of
civilization--the pioneers of deepest thought and highest attainments
in culture.
There is nothing in the religion of Christ that is detrimental to the
freest discussion or the most careful investigation. The Christly spirit
has founded all our colleges with scarcely an exception. It has also been
the best patron of the press. If, in this enlightened age--an age of
popular inquiry and general information; a state of things made
possible only by the Gospel and its influence--if, in this enlightened
age, the good that has come to us from Nazareth could not stand the
glare of public criticism, the brilliancy of this twentieth century, then
would its supporters cease to found colleges, establish newspapers,
send out into all the world its advocates to cope with the skill and
learning of its enemies. Light and liberty are ours because of Christ and
Nazareth.
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