The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-09-30
THE PEOPLES FORUM.
Power Of Little Things.

much in the world and is such a potent
factor in evangelization, owes its origin
to wet Sabbath day. A rainy Sab
bath has driven many to take shelter
IN a church where they heard the truth
which brought them to saving knowl-
edge of Christ.
So small thing as a nut saved the
life of German count. There was a
plot to murder him and the murderer
was concealed in the castle. Before
retiring the Count drew some things
from his pocket, among them nut,
which fell on the floor. AS the assassin
entered thereon he stepped on the nut
which in breaking cracked so loud that
the Count was Weakened and the muir
derer fled.
Voltalre when FIVE years old learned
an inidel poem and was never after
able to free himself from its effects,
and many man since that has had
reason.to lament the influence of his
writings. When Scott the communi-
tator, was in the Castle of Giant Des-
pair, he read one of DR.. Watts HYMNS
which turned his life in a new channel.
He left life of idleness and sin for one
of great usefulness.
Cowper one of the grandest poets of
modern times, was going to a suicide s
death by drowning, but his driver car
ried him the wrong way and he was so
affected by the circumstances that he
went home and wrote his famous hymn,
God moves in mysterious way, His
wonders to perform.
Dr.. Clark was lazy lad at school,
but the rebuke of his teacher reused
him to great mental action and he was
no longer known for his dullness.
A wealthy lady thought she was doing
very little thing when she made a
young man who had been rescued from
suicide. sher protege, but she opened the
way andsassisted to fame the greatest
violinist of the world.
By attending one missionary meeting
Robert Motfett. the celebrated mission
airy was led to devote his life to work
for darkest Africa.
One step downward often leads men
into the greatest guilt. One wrong act
often leads to a felon's cell. One I'M
kind word may mar life; one cool in
situation may throw a gloom over an
upright life and thwart an honest pur-
pose. Yet it is the little words and
actions that make or mar our lives.
When the Lord wishes to scourge
nations He does mt need to trouble the
sky with clouds, nor shake the air with
thunders, or make seething fires gush
from the red mouthed crater and flow
down like. mountain cataracts. He could,
by word, make the sea burst through
its bounds and deluge the land, or the
mountains could be cast INTO the
sea, but He need not do that. To ac-
cOmplish his work He could send forth
the smallest and most insignificant
insect to darken the atmosphere and
desOlate the earth and no power or in
genuity of man will be able to check
them and no fruit of the land will salts
fY their verocious appetites. These
small things that man is want to de-
splse. may be terrible in the hand of
Him who can call them forth at pleas
ure and send them as messengers of
destruction.
A very little thing may be made the
instrument in the hands of God of
thwarting the vain imaginations of
proud man and of utterly destroying
the work of his hand and so bring a
blight upon the earth.
The rust, the weevil and the mllGeW,
concerning the nature of which even
the wisest know but little, are instru-
ments mighty enough to destroy the
food Of nations and cause the wall of
starving millions to fill the land.
A small insect feeds upon the green
vines of the potato and toll and sweat
and anxiety Of the farmer are useless
for the crop is a failure The grass
hopper marshals his forces and de-
vastates the country and want sets at
the doorSof the land Locusts have
been known to advance in a column 500
miles long and 40 broad. They cover
everything, they darken the sky and the
sound of their wings is like that of
many waters. Their desolation IS worse
than that of armies for famine and
pestilence follow in their course. The
Emperor Alexander once sent out an
army ofss30, 900 to stop their progress,
but Mcknight as we'll have tried to dam
up the Volga.
We are startled when we see the ar
ray of intelligence, power and invul-
nerable hfe that God has conferred on
things so small that it takes the strong
instruments Of science to discover them.
They impress US with the power of the
creator and show US how minute and
persuasive and resistless is the power
thatsgovernssthe world The little in
sect in the bottom of the sea patiently
works away, and by and by the ocean
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