The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-03-12

This life is but season of preparation,
period of trial or probation, melted out to us
by the Creator to test our fitness for higher,
truer life, or a more terrible and cursed one in
the great hereafter. 1t is filed with duties to
be performed and temptations to be withstood
filled with opportunities for doing good, and
overlooking with evils to be avoided These
duties of life are numerous as the waves of
the ocean, and like those waves some come
rolling in upon us like huge mountain pillows,
and some are tiny as the ripples of the oceans
bosom when stirred by the softest of summer
evening breezes; some from their very magni-
tude carry with them, irresistible commands
to be performed; some come so gently upon
us and plead in such tender, soft and puerile
voice that it requires no great effort of the
will to resist their force and leave them I'M
performed. From their seeming insignificance
and frequent almost constantly occurrence, we
are prone to treat lightly and with indifference
the little things of life-to neglect its little
duties when they should be performed, and to
fill into its little SHARES and temptations when
they should be avoided But we Mou,d MT
we must nat, allow ourselves to treat them thus
lightly, for il is the so called little thngs-the
minor duties and errors--that make up the
lives of mankind just as the ripples of the
oceans bosom when driven together by the
hurricanes blast make the mountain pillows !:
just as tie springs, Of the mountains and val
leys unite and form the mighty lakes and
rivers; just as the little grains of sand and the
little pebbles placed one upon another form
the mountains just as the little deeds Incl
dents and errors Of hours and days make up
the lives OF men. Man should not neglect
these little things of life in working ont his
life's duties, when the Creator of the universe.
in His grand conceptions and their realization,
has been so mindful Of them. The same power
that spoke into being the innumerabe planets
OF the universe and sent them whiring through
the realms of ilimitable space, created also
the tiniest bird. The same hand that shaped
the mountains and rolled the huge rocks which
crown its summit, created the tiniest vine
which creeps along its base. The same hand
that poured into the basin of the mighty deep
it's waste of waters, created also the tiniest
dew-drop that sparkles like an angels gem
upon the wing of mornings earliest lark
And as God, in working out His grand concep-
tons of creation, combinedt the small with the
great, so should we, in filling out and attempt
ing to realize His conceptions in the creation
of man, perfect the little things which meet us
at every step in life, as well as the greater is
sues of existence which only meet us at the
great crossroads of our journey. Christ, too,
our Elder Brother, who by the charity of God
was sent into the world to redeem mankind by
His teachings and example, teaches us the
great lesson of faithfulness in little things.
His life is filed with the most potent commands
that we neglect not the lesser duties privi-
leges and opportunities of doing good. Every
act done, every word spoken by Him bears
stamped upon it, in letters of living fire, this
great command. One of the grandest and
most sublime acts of His life-that of blessing