The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-27
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. DECEMBER q, 1897

born. l pray God that my children may
toll on this reef long after / am dead In
sects all OF us, bat honored by God to help
heave up the reef Of light across which
shall break the oceans immortal galdness.
Better be insignificant and useful tnan
great and idle. The mastodons and me-
gatheriums of the earth, what did they
do but stalk their great carcasses across
the land and leave their skeletons through
the strata, while the corahines went on
heaving up the islands all covered with
fruitage and verdure. Better be cor
aline than a mastOdon. So now j am try
ing to make one little coralline. The polyp
picks out of the wave that smites IL car
Donate of lime, and with that builds up
its own insectile masonry So out of the
wave of your tears l take the salt; out of
the bruise / take the blue, and out of your
bleeding heart l take the red, and out OF
them altogether 1 make this coral, which
] pray may not be disowned in the day
when God makes up his jewels.
Little things decide great things. All
that tremendous career of the last Napo-
leon hanging on the hand OF a brakeman
who, on one of our American railways,
caught him as he was fallins between the
cars of a flying train. The battle Of Dun
bar was decided against the Scotch be-
cause their matches had given out. Ag-
gregations of little things that pull down
or build up. When an army or a regiment
Il
manded TO break ranks, for their simulta-
neous tread will destroy the strongest
bride. \ bridge at Anglers, France, and
bridge at Broughton, England went
down because the regiment kept step
while crossing. Aggregations of tempta-
ton, aggregatiOns of sorrow, agSregattons
of assaults, aggregations OF Christian eff
fort, aggregations of self-sacrihces! These
make the irresistible power to demolish or
to uplift, to destroy or to save. Little
causes and great results Christianity
was introduced into Japan by the falling
overheard of a poke t-Bible from a ship
in the harbor of Toxic.
Written on the hy-leaf of one of my
books, by one whom God took to himself
out of our household. were the following
words-I do not know who composed them;
perhaps she composed them herself:
Not a sparrow faIleth but its God doth
know,
Just as when his mandate lays mon
Not leaiet waveth but its God doth
see;
Think not then, o trembler. God for
getteth thee.
For more precious surely than the birds
that fly
Is a Fathers image to Fathers eye;
Fen thine hairs are numbered; trust him
full and free,
Cast thy care upon him, and he'll care
for thee.
For the God that planted in thy breast
a soul
On his sacred tables doth thy name en-
roll;
Cheer thine heart, thou trembler, never
faithless be-
He that marks the sparrows will re-
member thee.
o, be encouraged! Do not any man say,
"My work is so small" Do not any woman
say: My work is so Insignificant; 1 can
not do anything for the upbuilding of
Gods kingdom" You can. Remember
the corallines A Christian mother sat
sewing a garment, and her little girl
wanted to help her, and so she sewed on
another piece of the same garment and
brought it to her mother. and the work
was corrected. 1t was imperfect, and had
to be all taken out again. But did
the mother chide the child? o. no. She
said: "She wanted to help me, and she did
as well as she could" And so the mother
blessed the child, and while she blessed
the child she thought of herself. and said:
perhaps it may be so with my poor work
at the last. God win look at it, 1t may
be very imperfect. and l know it is very
crooked. He may have to take it all out;
but he knows that I want to serve him,
and he knows it is the best that / can do"
So be comforted in your Christian work
Five thousand millions corallines made
one corallum. And then they passed
away and other millions came, and the
work is wonderful. But on the day when
the worlds redemption shall be consum-
mated, and the names of ell the millions
of Christians, who in all he ages have
toiled on this structure shall be read the
work win appear so grand, and the
achievement so glorious. and the durabll-
ity so everlasting that mo mention shall
be made of coral"