| The Joy of Service |
Chapter 9 |
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Littleness is no evidence that a duty is unimportant, or that we may omit the doing of it without hurt to the work entrusted to us. We should do the little things just as faithfully and conscientiously as the great things.
“Despise not thou small things;
The soul that longs for wings
To soar to some great height of sacrifice, too oft
Forgets the daily round,
Where the little cares abound,
And shakes off little duties while she looks aloft.”
Israel won the battle that day without the men of Meroz, but it might easily have happened that the absence of a few men from the ranks had caused defeat. There are times when the failure of one person to do his duty in his place will bring disaster to the cause. A young girl found herself the only Christian in a school of a hundred. Her first thought was that no good could come from her confessing her Master amid such overpowering worldly antagonism. One little candle could give no light worth while in all that darkness. But her second thought was that she dare not fail to confess Christ. “I am the only one He has here,” she said; “and I must confess Him.” No one can tell what a loss it would have been to the cause of Christ in that school if she had not come to His help.
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