The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-20
THE LITTLE PEOPLE
A SERMON, BY TIE
REV. EsAu A. BYRD, Pastor
SANITY sAUL's CHURCH,
CATFISH CORNER

1
There is an old saying that every
dog has his day! 1t is more truth
than poetry. We have heard much
of late about "The little people"
1t is about the ''little people"
that / want to talk to you now, be-
cause feel that there is new day
for the "little people" You will find
indisputable reference to them in
the Bible of Moses and the Bible OF
Jesus. Both spoke in allegory and
parable at times, but the inference
and the lesson is none the less real.
l say to you my brethren that
the little people are the salt OF the
earth. 1t is among them also that
we find the milk of human kind
ness. Without their leaverling IN
fluence, and the leadership and sta
bility that they have shown III tn
worlds crises, the universe would
have long ago tumbled into that
ageless darkness which is yet to
come upon US lest we nerd our
ways.
"The Little People" is my sub
ject; but l say to you that collect
lively they are great people. They
are welding a powerful influence in
the world today, because they are
working and thinking and vJting as
one body. They have grown wise
like the ant, and the comics, and the
locrsts, and the spiders of which
tie Bible tells us, and they are us
ing their heads.
The little people, who long ago
could have ruled the wo"li nave
now, at last, learned that by unit
ing, they can be more powerful
than the organized and united mi
norities that represent wealth, CT
denominations of politicians.
1t is a new day for the Little
People, and will continue for long
time to be their inning, if they do
not soon grow weary, and rest or
nod by the wayside. If this should
befall, they may be excused be-
cause they have so long done the
worlds work; they have forever
done mental duty, and irksome
tasks because they were forced to
do so. No wonder they are weary
and heartsick, and often discour
aged, and do not have the RESI- ST.
ance to keep going.
Now Solomon taught the people
many wise things, but there is no
greater lesson than he gave them
in the 30th Proverbs. His refer
ences were to small creatures,
whose activities apply equally to
men and to women, wherever they
be. ~
Solomon made it plain what the
little people can do, and how they
may become great by simply using
their heads.
| 1t is not a matter of stature or
strength, but it is in the use of rea-
son, and sticking everlastingly to a
thing that counts. What the smaller
creatures accomplish men may also
do.
You have seen how the "Litt!c
People" of our land have been neg
lected and put off, and given the
run-around all through the years,
while they. listened to the polite
ians as they said: BE patient; your
time is coming next. Help US. gel
this job, and we will look out for
you"
You have seen how the big cities
and the big people got everything
year after year and the little pee
pie got nothing.
Recently the little people got TO-
gether. They refused to listen to The
rich men, the big shots, the big
towns, the politicians who have
been selling them "down the river
ali these years.
The Little People said: eve will
vote to suit ourselves; we will get
something for ourselves. We vii
quit depending on others to dc
things for u.s."
And so the little people have gone
and done what Solomon in his
Proverbs said. They have done what
he counseled them to do, when he
| told them of the little things OF
many thousands of years ago
Listen to Proverbs Both Chapter:
"There be four things which arg
little upon the earth, but they are
exceeding wise:
"The ants are a people not strong