LITTLE THINGS by Congregationalist

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 1, 1881

LITTLE THINGS.

By Congregationalist

More depends on little things than we think. It is said that Voltaire when five years old learned an infidel poem, and he was never able to free himself from its effects. Scott, the commentator, when despairing, read a hymn of Dr. Watts, and he was turned from a life of idleness and sin, to one of usefulness. Cowper, about to drown himself, was carried the wrong way by his driver, and went home to write "God moves in a mysterious way." The rebuke of a teacher aroused Dr. Clarke to great action, who had up to that time been slow in acquiring knowledge. Ole Bull, the great violinist, rescued from suicide by drowning and taken to the near residence of a wealthy lady, became her protégé and soon acquired fame. Robert Moffat, the distinguished missionary, reading a placard announcing a missionary-meeting, was led to devote himself to work for the heathen. One step downward often leads men into the greatest guilt. It is the little words and actions that make or mar our lives.—Congregationalist.