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

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 33.

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The Home Circle.

THE POWER OF LITTLES.

GREAT events, we often find, On little things depend, And very small beginnings Have oft a mighty end.
Letters joined make words, And words to books may grow, As flake to flake descending, Forms an avalanche of snow.
A single utterance may good Or evil thoughts inspire; One little spark enkindled, Will set a town on fire.
Little words are often Full of weal or woe, Joy or grief depending On saying "Yes" or "No."
What volumes may be written With little drops of ink! How small a leak unnoticed A mighty ship may sink!
A tiny insect's labor Makes the coral strand, And mighty seas are girdled With grains of golden sand.
Our life is made entirely Of moments multiplied, As little streamlets joining Form the ocean's tide.
Our hours and days, our months and years, Are in small moments given; They constitute our time below,— Eternity in Heaven!
—English Paper.