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The Trifles That Make the Saints

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 17, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 29.

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The Trifles That Make the Saints

“A tone of pride or petulance repressed, A selfish inclination firmly fought, A shadow of annoyance set at naught, A measure of disquietude suppressed; A peace in importunity possessed, A reconciliation generously sought, A purpose put aside, a banished thought, A word of self-explaining unexpressed,— Trifles they seem; these petty soul restraints; Yet he who proves them so must needs possess A constancy and courage, grand and bold; They are the trifles which have made the saints. Give me to practise them in humbleness, And nobler power doth no man hold.”