It is by the seeming
insignificance thereof, by the seeming non-necessity, by the seeming
humbleness of its circumstances, by the seeming smallness of its results,
issuing merely (as far as Scripture tells us, and therefore as far as we
need know, or have a right to imagine) in the giving of a transitory and
unnecessary physical pleasure. In short, by the very absence of that
Dignus deo vindice nodus, that knot which only a God could untie, which
heathens demanded ere a god was allowed to interfere in the plot of a
tragedy; which too many who call themselves Christians demand before the
living God is allowed to interfere in that world in which without Him not
a sparrow falls to the ground. In a moral case of this kind, if you will
consider, that which seems least is often the greatest. That which seems
the lowest, because the simplest and meanest manifestation of a moral
law, may be--probably is--the deepest, the highest, the most universal.
Life is made up of little things, say the practically wise, and they say
true, for our Lord says so likewise.
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