Under Twenty; Messages to Big Boys and Girls (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1922 Excerpt: ... VI THE IMPORTANCE OF LITTLE THINGS "He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much."--Luke 16:10. EVERYBODY is interested in big things. People like to think about them and talk about them; the Panama Canal, the San Francisco Exposition, the European War. The newspapers are always calling our attention to big things, big railway accidents and big business failures, big discoveries and big gifts, big business and big scandals, big crimes and big tragedies, and while the world goes on talking about big things, I want to think with you for a little while about the importance of little things. For the world is made up of little things. Did you ever pull the summer to pieces? Try it, and see what you find. You will find a lot of little grass blades, little plants, little flowers, little leaves, little blossoms, little perfumes, little bird-notes, little gurglings of running water, little lights and shadows--that is all the summer is. God builds the summer palace out of little things. Life is made up of little things. Our life consists of days, and the days are composed of minutes, and minutes are little things. We never have more than one of them at a time. Did you ever think what you would do if you could have two minutes at the same time? Just one minute at a time is God's law and the law can never be changed. The minutes are filled with little things. You get up in the morning, wash, dress, eat breakfast, go to your work, it may be in school or in office or in shop or in home, you succeed in doing a dozen or two dozen things, all of them little, and then you are hungry and must eat again. You then go back to your work, and after you have attended to a dozen or two dozen little things, it is time for dinner, and after dinner you read a little, o...