Faithfulness in Great and Small Things by James Freeman Clarke

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 15.

Faithfulness in Great and Small Things

By James Freeman Clarke

The only way to be faithful in anything is to be faithful in everything. The only way to be faithful in great things is to be faithful in small things. When I was in college I engaged a countryman to bring me a load of wood in November at a certain price. November came, and the price of wood had raised. But on the appointed day my man arrived. I congratulated him on his punctuality. "Yes," he said, "I could have received two dollars more for my wood at home. But I had promised to bring it to you, and so I said I shall be a poor sort of a fellow if my word is not worth two dollars."—James Freeman Clarke.