We belong to a scheme of nature in which the chief factor is the
infinitesimal. The composition of the elements depends on the
multitudinous accretions of particles. We are most in danger when we
overlook the power of mere atoms to affect us, and when we despise
trivial causes of mischief.
A cathedral clock with its musical chimes suddenly stopt
intoning its sacred and beautiful melodies. The cause was for a
time a perplexity, as nothing could be discovered to have gone
wrong with the machinery of the chimes. But at length it was
found that a frail brown butterfly had become entangled in the
wheelworks, and had brought to a complete standstill the clock
and its chimes. (Text.)
(1868)
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Dr. S. P. Henson says:
What a multitude of threads make up a fringe; and yet how
beautiful and costly when completed! And here is found a beauty
of the real Christian life. There are not a few who may be
willing upon rare and notable occasions to do or suffer some
great thing, but the ten thousand little things of life are
entirely beneath their notice, as they also suppose them to be
beneath the notice of the Lord. (Text.)
(1869)
See FAITH IN GOD.
=Lives Corresponding to the Bible=--See NATIVE CONVERTS.