Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-05
CHRISTIAN Gnbfabor -Four

taking your measure for a larger
place If he was at school he kept
thinking. 4 must not skip the hard
problems, for they may rise up in my
manhood and testify against my faith
/ lessness as a boy. and may defeat me.
must see an opportunity In every
lesson. and cultivate habit OF con-
quering-a habit of thorough faithful
ness and accuracy.
| In this statement we have striking
illustration of true fidelity in meeting
i important sense. every occasion is a
great occasion. No duty is little matt
i ter. The highest record any man can
| make is by doing what he ought to 90.
Whether the thing one ought to do ap-
pears to be small great. it belongs
to the one law of duty.
Law of Duty.
If there were no law of duty. there
could be no transgression. no violation.
| 1t is written: whatsoever shall keep
! the whole law. and yet offend in one
point. he is guilty of ALL Ii is for
this reason that SO much importance
is attached to faithfulness in what are
called the little duties of life. To Of
fend in one point is to be guilty of the
sin of transgression of the whole law.
! The law of God is one law: and that 10
why it is so important to guard against
unfaithfulness in little things No one
| can keep the law of God perfectly.
The most that man can do is always to
| try to do what is required, relying on
the law of grace for help. Fidelity in
| the effort to do right is accepted FOR
| performance. for then God completes the
! work.
! In the vestibule of a beautiful library
erected in memory of noble ana
gentle woman, are these lines on q
bronze tablet: The Good She Tried 70
IN ba Stand II sTwera Done. God
Finishes the Work by Noble Souls Be-
| gum
| Measure of Reward.
! Fidelity, not the amount Of success. -
what is approved and rewarded. ThS
parable of the pounds teaches that re-
ward does not depend upon the amoune
of ones endowment, but upon the
i faithfulness in using what he has. To
the man who had been given five
talents and had gained five talents
more his Lord said. We'll done, thou
good and faithful servant; thou hast
been faithful over few things. | viii
ma Ike thee ruler over many things:
enter thou into the joy of thy Lord
Fidelity. not the amount gained. brought
the plaudit of well done.
1t is related that modest ran "f
moderate ability said that he could not
expect that He would say, We'll tried:
well attempted"
Kiplng presents that view in the
following lines:
And this thought of hope and trust comes
with its healing balm,
As here | lay my brow in dust and breathe my
lowly psalm:
That not the heights of victory won. hat those
| tried to gain.
Will come my gracious Lords well done anl
sweet efTac.Dg rain.
Not the victories won. but those we
ment, the measure of reward.
In Little Things.
Christian fidelity has relation in all
things, little or big. to the truth i.
revealed in the life and teachings OF
Christ. Fidelity is Il prerequisite to
His favor and blessing. 1t is no little
matter to come short in even the
smallest of our obligations to Him.
Faithfulness in little things. How
much it means. Little things are SYM
bols of the miGhtiest creations of Gods
power.
That very law which mods n tear
And bids il trickle from Its source
That law preserves the earth y sphere
And guides the planets in their ""ur>e.