Every Stroke Counts

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 10, 1866

Every Stroke Counts

Every Stroke Counts.—The way either to do good or to be good in this world is not to be weary in well-doing. The slightest particulars are important. Every stroke counts. We do one duty, and that opens the way to another, and that still to another, and so on from step to step, till a substantial character is formed. The slight additions that are made from day to day are hardly perceptible; but in the end, the separate blocks have reared the mighty pyramid. If we wait till we can execute some great deed, and become saints and heroes in a day, we may waste life in vain expectations, and suffer bankruptcy of character at last. The full-stored hive of honey is not the spoil of one flower alone, but of many. So must some good be attained every day, some new truth learned, some vigorous resolution made, and some old one repaired. Until we are faithful up to the full mark of our ability we never can tell how much we lose even by one failure in duty, one slight deviation from the bright and shining way of moral rectitude and holiness.