LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

Contrast our position with the position of those nations who have not
the gospel. Who fears the result of a comparison of the condition of the
sincere Christian, with the best examples of any of the religions of
heathendom? As it respects childhood, one may see the superiority, the
Divinity of the Nazarene, in His instruction and influence concerning
the sacredness of human life. Infanticide or criminal negligence, in the
case of the child, has no encouragement among those who remember
the Babe of Bethlehem and the Boy of Nazareth.
But the motherly feeling in darkened lands has been benumbed by the
deadening influence of nature-worship and superstition, or else has
been sacrificed to a supposed demand of an offended Deity. That which
some look back upon as the happiest of life's experiences--childhood--
has no sweet memories where Christ is unknown.
Come and see the good that has flowed as a sparkling stream from
Nazareth's rocky hills, making rich and happy the homes of all who
dwell beside its banks. Each rollicking group of merry-hearted boys
and girls speaks of Christ and of Nazareth. Such scenes are only
possible where human life is held sacred, and where due regard is had
for the child and its mother. The more thoroughly the investigation is
pursued, the more thoroughly will all prejudiced Nathanaels be
convinced that not only some good may, but that all good has, come to
us from Nazareth, through Christ our Lord.
Let no one despise the place, the agent, the means from which great
good is reported to have come. It is possible and very probable that God
has chosen to put His Spirit in the simple and despised ones of earth, in
order to call out the wonder and praise and adoration of men. He was
wiser than Nathanael, who said: "If this work is of men, it will come to
nothing; but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest you be found
even to fight against God."
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