Year: 1860



 How often these words are on our lips It is such little thing What if it is little thing It is of some consequence, even if it is, and not unfrequently little things are of as much importance as great ones, and even more. There are some things which one person would regard as small ones, which another would call of great im- portance. The little child, for instance, has various troubles and grievances, which ap- pear as mountains to him, but which are but molehills to their elders, who are engrossed with troubles and trials of their own. Ma ny times we might oblige others by perform ing some trifling act of kindness for them but we neglect to do it, because we thing it would occasion us some little inconvenience, or perhaps five minutes waste of time but we incommode ourselves great deal more, aud waste more time, in doing that which is not as profitable as it would be to perform a kind office to another. Sometimes little children may wish us to do something for them, and we tell them we have not time, or make some other excuse, and they go away feeling very disconsolate but if we do it for them, we shall feel happier ourselves, and also make them happier. It might be for gotten by them in few moments, and doubtless would be; still we should have the consciousness of having contributed to tho happiness of another, and it generally makes person happy, to feel that they have made another so.

 It has been said that person is not re- membered after death, as much for the great deeds which he has done, as for the little deeds, which, perhaps were not considered of any consequence by him while performing them and often some little act of kindness, which was done long ago, and quickly for gotten, will come up in remembrance, and in thinking of ono little deed of kindness, peo- pie will forget some larger deed of unkind- ness, and perhaps conclude that they have judged him too harshly We are all apt to censure people more severely than they de- serve never thinking of that command, Judge not, that ye be not judged for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete, it shall le measured to you again." Little things !! what would the world be without them, even if they are so insignificant {; for as the largest mountain is made up of grains of sand, and the largest ocean of drops of water, so is life made up of little incidents, and often kind word or deed to one in poverty or distress, will alleviate their suf- ferings, and make them our friends forever and often an angry word spoken to our friends, will alienate them from us through life. We might have called that little thing at first, but we do not call the result so. And all these little incidents of life which we call so trivial, are they not writ. ten down by the pen of the recording an- gel and in that last great day, when the deeds of all shall be reckoned up, and noth- ing, however small omitted, whether it be good or evil, which will then weigh the heav- jest in the balance of our fnal destiny the great things we have done, or the little things? It will be the little things for, however numerous the large ones are, there will be such an infinite amount of little ones, that they will by far outweigh those that are larger. Then let us regard with more importance these little words and deeds for though they may seem trivial to us, they do not always prove so in their results.

 L. c. 8.