Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-12-27

Little things decide great things All
that tremendous career Of the last Ma
poleon hanging Oh the hand of brake
man who, on one of our American rail
ways, caught him as he was falling be-
tween the cars of a flying train. The
battle of Dunbar was decided against
the Scotch because their matches had
given out. Aggregations Of little things
that pull down or build up. When an
army or a regiment come to a bridge,
they are always commanded to break
tanks for their simultaneous tread will
destroy the strongest bridge. A bridge
at Anglers, France, and a bridge at
Broughton, England, went down be-
cause the regiment kept step while
crossing Aggregations Of temptation,
aggregations Of sorrow, aggregations Of
assaults, aggregations of Christian eff
fort, aggregations of self sacrifices
these make the irresistible power to de-
molish or to uplift to destroy or to save
little causes and great results. Chris
tianity was introduced into Japan by
the falling overheard of a pocket Bible
from ship in the harbor of Tokyo.
Written on the fly 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 her
self:
Not sparrow falleth but its God doth know,
just as wssen his mandate lays monarch low;
Not leafet waveth but it's God doth see.
Think not, then, O trembler, God forgetteth
theel
For more precious surely than the birds that
Is a Fathers image to Fathers eye.
Fen thine hairs numbered. Trust him full
and free.
Cast thy care upon him, and he'll care for
thee.
For the God THAI planted in thy breast a soul
On his sacred tables doth thy name enroll.
Cheer thine heart, thou trembler, never faith
less be.
He that marks the sparrow will remember
thee.
Oh, be encouraged! Do not any man
say, my work is so small" Do not
any woman say My work is so insig-
nificant. 1 cannot do anything for the
upbuilding of Gods kingdom. 4" You
can. Remember the corallines. A Chris
tian mother sat sewing 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? Oh, 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 will 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 L
want to serve him, and he knows it is
the best that L can do" So be comforted
in your Christian work. Five thousand
million corallines made one corallum,
and then they passed away and other
millions came, and the work is wonder
full, but on the day when the worlds
redemption shall be consummated, and
the names of all the millions Of Chris
tians who in all the ages have toiled on
this structure shall be read, the work
will appear so grand and the achieve
ment so glorious and the durability so
everlasting that mo mention shall be
made of coral. -