Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-16

the land and leave their skeletons
through tho strata, while the corallines
went on heaving up the islands all COW
cred with fruitage aud verdure. Better
be coralline than a mastodon. So now
1 am trying to make one little coralline.
The polyp picks out of the wave that
smites it carbonate OF lime, and with
that builds mp it's own insectile mason
ny. So out Of the wave of your tears ]
take the salt, out OF the bruise I take
the blue, and out Of your bleeding heart
take the red, and out Of them alto
gether make this coral, which pray
may not be disowned in the day when
God makes mp his Jewels.
Little things decide great things. An
that tremendous career of the last Ma
poieop hanging on the hand OF brake
man who, on one Of our American rail-
ways, caught him as he was falling be-
tween the cars OF flying train. The
battle of Dunbar was decided against
tho Scotch because their matches had
given out. Aggregations Of little things
that pull down or build mp. When an
army or a regiment come 10 a bridge,
they are always commanded to break
~-%>r<ob AOA tAOAk GTthU WIFI
destroy the strongest bridge. A bridge
nc Anglers, France, and q bridge at
Broughton, England, went down be-
cause the regiment kept step while
crossing. Aggregations of temptation,
aggresations 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 pocket Bible
from ship in tho harbor of Tokyo.
Written ON the fly leaf OF one of my
books by one whom God tooAy 70 himself
out Of our household were the following
words do not know wbe composed
them Perhaps she composed them her.
self:
Not sparrow fallsth but its God doth know.
just "a when his mandate lays monarch low
Not losnst waveth but fits God doth see.
Think not, then, o trsmblsr. God forgsttetl
For rsors precious surely than the birds thal
In q Fathers image TO a FATHERS eye.
Fen thine hairs arc numbered Trust him ful
Cast thy care upon him. and hsu care FOR
thee
For the God that planted in thy breas. n soul
On HIS sacred tables doth thy name enroll
Cheer thine heart. thou tremnlsr. never faith
less Be.
Hs that marks the sparroxr VIII re,n.,,he,
thee
Oh. be encouraged Do not any maj
say, my work is SO small" Do no
any woman say: my work is 20 insig
nincant- cannot do anything for thu
upbuilding Of Gods kingdom" Yor
can Remember the oorallines. A Chris
tian mother sat sewing garment, and
her little girl wanted to help her, anG
so shs sewed ON another piece Of thu
same garment and brought IL to he,
mother, and the work was corrected, II
was imperfect and had to be all taker
out again. But did the mother chidt
the child? Oh, mol She said, "Sh,
wanted to help me, and she did as well
as she could" And so tho mothe,
blessed the child, and while she blessed
the child she thought Of herself ant
said: Perhaps it may be so with m,
poor work at the last. God will look a.
it 1t may be very imperfect, and
know 1t is very crooked. He may hav,
to take 1t all out, but he knows that
want TO serve him, and he knows il is
the best that 1 can do" So be comfortec
In your Christian work. Five Thousand
million corallines made one corallum
and then they passed away and othel
millions came, and the work is wonder
ful, but ON the day when the world
redemption shall be contaminated, ant
the names Of all the millions Of Chris
tians who in all the ages have toiled Oh
this structure shall be read, the worl
will appear so grand and the achieve
ment so glorious and tho durability SC
everlasting that mo mention shall b,
made of coral y,