Our Small Part

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 21, 1915

The fact that the little we can do to make the world better is small indeed is often our excuse for doing nothing, but it is a very poor excuse. In reality it should be the very reason why we should do our little, and do it up to the limit of our best possible. The world is not made better all at once and by the big achievements of one or two; it is a slow process, and the little goodnesses of a multitude of people combine to make it possible.

If it came easily and suddenly and through individual effort, we might easily shoulder our responsibility on some one else; but when it is such a slow business at which a multitude must work, then to neglect our part is a sin and a crime. Because it is so little that the best of us can do, it is all the more important that the little be done after the best fashion, lest the whole process, so slow and laborious at best, still stay and linger for want of us. No, we ought not to stop the procession.—The Christian Guardian.