The Archive · 1927

Little Things That Multiply

Little things grow and multiply. Yes and insignificant little things add up. The huge locomotive plough along with its heavy load against the tearing wind and up the Tong grades, but the tiny flakes snow, each insignificant in itself, finally bring it to a standstill. The thin end of the wedge is an insignia ficant thing; and so is the trickle of water through the dyke. But both may be fraught with tremend-

And the little to call them sins, may be compa tively harmless and quite insignia leant in themselves and yet fraught with tremendous consequences. How often we say, "It doesn't matter, its just a little' one," and then, "one little one more." "Is it not a little tone?" "It is. the Devil's prompting as old as the Old Testament and as deadly in its working to-day ar it was then. "It doesn't matter."

But: it does. It matters most tremendously.

It is a revealing word, a char acteristic excuse. We rather feel that it is not the first time that these or similar words, have been used by Lot. For Lot did not deliberately rejects God. That is to completely misread the story.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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