The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-04

m-axfreueSre said. There Is no need OF
my working; I cannot build the sand
w.rh islands," Fac one attended 10
his own business. n there are the
Sandwich Islands and there az the
cora4l,eras. All, my friends, the re-
disruption OF this world Is a great en-
serpTase. ibid not see It start: 1 viii
not in this world see its close. 1 am
only an insece as Win ane
great work he done, but yet / must
do my part. Help busid this eternal
corafs.um / will. My parents toilsd on
THIS reef long before 1 was born. L
pray God that my children may toll on
this reef long after / am dead. Insects
al of US. but honored by God TO hep
hkaye UP the reef of light across
which shaM break the OCEANS immortal
giadnsss. Batter be insignificant and
useful than great and idle. The mas
todoas ard n.egathsriums OF the earth,
what I'D they do but stalk chsfr great
across the land and feave
their Skeletons through the
While the coral lines vert OH hetavang
I'D the islands ali covered with fruit
age and verdure? Better be a coral
line Than a mastodon. So now / am
trying to make one little coraliine. The
polyp picks out Of the waye that smites
it carbonate of lima, and With that
builds I'D its own inSectile masonry. SO
out of the wave of your tears i take
the salt; out OF the bruise l take the
blue, and out of your bleedfng heart /
take the red, and out of them altogeth-
er 1 make this coral, which / pray
may not be disowned in the day when
God makes UP his jewels
POWER OF LITTLE THINGS.
Little things decide great things. All
tina tremendous career OF the last Ma
pofean hanging on the hand of a
hrakemen WHO, on n of our American
railways, caught him as he was failing
between the cars of a flying train The
battle of Dunbar was decided against
the Scotch because their matches had
given out. AggTegations of little things
that pull down or buld up. When an
army or a regiment come to a bridge,
they are always commanded to break
ranks, for their simultaneous tread Will
destroy the strongest bridge. A bridge
at Anglers, France, and "a bridge at
BrougIhton, England, went down fbe-
cause The regiment kept step wh1le
crossing. A~ggregationS of temptation,
aggregations of sorrow, aggregations Of
assaults, aggregations of ClIristion eff
fort, aggregations of self sacrifices
these make the Irresistible power to
demo1fsh cr to upllft, to destroy or to
save. Little causes and great results.
Christianity Was introduced into Japan
by the failing overheard of a pocket
Bible from a ship IN the harbcr of
Tokyo.
'Written on the fly leaf of one OF my
books by one whom God took to him.
self out Of our household were the fol-
lowing words. I do not know who
composed them. Perhaps III compos-
ed them herself:
Not a shlarrow falleth but it's God doth
know,
Just as when his manlIate lays a mon
arch low;
Not a leaflet w1aveu.1 but it's God doth
See.
Think not, then, o trembler, God for
getttth thee!
Fer mere percious surely than the
birds that fly
Is a Fathers image to q Fathers eye.
Fen thine hairs are numbered. Trust
him full and free.
Cast thy dare upon him, and he'll care
for thee.
Fer the God that planted in thy breast
! "a soul
On his sacred tables doth thy name
enroll.
Cheer thine heart, thou tremIol5r, never
: faith.eSs be.
He that marks the sparrow win re-
member thee.
! Oh, be encouraged! Do not any
man say, My work is so small" Do rot
amy woman say. MY work is irLsig-
nificant. 1 cannot do anything for THE
upbuilding of rod kingjom.' You
can. Remember the coraLEines. A
Christian mother sat sewing a garment
and ler 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 WIS cor rect
ed. 1t was imperfect and had to be
all taken cut again. But did the moth
er chlde the child? Oh, no. She said,
SHE wanted to help me, and she did
as werl 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
50 wt,l our poor work at the last.
God will look at it. 1t may be very
imperfect, and 1 know it is very crook
q. 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 I
a do" So be comforted In your
Christian work. Five Thousand million
corai1ines made n corallum. And
then they passed aw7ay and other mil
lions anne, and the work is wonderful.
But on the day when the worlds re-
demption shall be consummated, and
the names OF all the millions Of Chris
tfans who in all the ages have toiled
on this structure shall be read, the
work will appear so grand and the
achievement so glorious and the dur
ability 50 everlasting that mo mention
shall be made Of the coral"
An Iowa Bank Suspeuds
Oskaloosa, Iowa, December 3O.-The