LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

family of the next generation; in an overestimate of world values, and
undervalue of eternal things.
Lessons learned too late multiply in the money marts of the world.
Destruction of property by fire and flood and famine are to be deplored,
but are not to be compared with the sadness that is seen in the wrong
use of means that brings the owner to poverty in old age, or scatters it
to the winds when death comes to settle up accounts. Why should not
God be taken into partnership when wealth and worth are sought? Why
should not His counsel be heeded in its use and distribution? "If anyone
has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on
him, how can the love of God be in him?" "Whoever stops his ears at the
cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard."
4. Lessons of Graciousness.
To be discreet in speech and conduct, should be the desire and effort of
every social being. The unkind word or ungracious act, like an arrow
speeding away from the bow and the archer, cannot be recalled. How
much of regret, how much of sorrow--such thoughtless, heartless
actions have caused! The scandal-monger is not a murderer, yet he
waylays the innocent and unsuspecting, robs them of their best
ornaments of a good name, assassinates reputation, ruins character,
and is in turn an object of ill-repute among his fellows.
"Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great
boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The
tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It
corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and
is itself set on fire by Hell!" James 3:5-6. Easy indeed is it to scatter to
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