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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 23, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 47.

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Morsels

By PHILIP GIDDINGS

PHILIP GIDDINGS
One ought to know the bottom of the top where he desires to be. He should not aspire to the summit before he has perspired at the base. He who begins to build at the top ends below. Toddle first, and you will not topple after.
Where you cannot speak the Word, let the Word speak.
The Lord chooses at times strange workmen as well as workshops to do his work. The Pentateuch was written by Moses, a refugee from Egypt who tended sheep in the Midian desert; the book of Daniel was written by an exile in Babylon; the sublime Revelation by the prisoner John on penal Patmos. “Pilgrim’s Progress” can still be made in Bedford jail. Those who go down into the deep see wonders on high.
Simon Magus made more money bewitching the people than Simon Peter did in switching them off the deception. And it is still so to this day.
Be not like the match that cannot be made to ignite but on its own box. Strike a light anywhere a light is needed. Be a kind man to all mankind. The truly great men are those with the bigness of international and cosmopolitan souls, the sons of Adam, who are the sons of God.
Though the nations of the earth speak in different tongues, they all laugh alike and cry alike. The language of the human heart is the same—the sorrow of sin’s night or the dispersing joy of the Sun of Righteousness. He who talks Jesus, talks love’s wide-world Esperanto. As evident as the sun in the heavens, there is no speech nor language where that voice is not understood.
A bank note, worn, dirty, and even torn, is worth infinitely more than the cleanest counterfeit.
Painstaking protects against pain. Carelessness sows for a crop of cares. Waste and want are the morning and evening of the prodigal’s day.
A tiny room may still be a tidy room. Those who excuse disorder and dirt because the place is small, would have spread them out in greater space. Order and cleanliness depend more on the housekeeper than on the house. He that cannot keep a little garden from weeds has no claim to the management of extensive farms. He that is faithful in little will be faithful in much.