LITTLE THINGS

New Zealand Tablet, 14 October 1909, Page 1637

LITTLE THINGS

' - The little things of to-day may grow into great things of to-morrow. The boy who is-' selfish with. 'his toys and sweetmeats will be so with his wealth and influence when a man ; for the heart grows harder rather than softer by the flight of time, if early steeled against the trifling sorrows _of our school-fellows. - Little things and little people have often brought' great things to pass. A drop' of water falling upon a block of granite makes no - perceptible im- x pression, .arid yet the continued falling of those little drops will wear away that seemingly impenetrable stone. Away up .some far-off mountain top there bubbles up a spring of -water, sending streamlet to ' the valley below, where it meets rivulets from the hillsides, gathers strength, increased volume, and the whole flowing on and becoming wider, deeper — stronger and swifter, until we behold the majestic river emptying its waters into gulf and ocean.