Nothing Small
There are a great many different ways of doing good. A lady once visited a hospital, and noticed with what pleasure the patients would smell and look at the flowers sent to them. Said she:
"If I had known that a bunch of flowers would do so much good, I would have sent some from home."
As soon as she got home, she sent some flowers out of her garden. It was a little thing—a bouquet of flowers. It might be a very insignificant work—very small; but if it was done in the right spirit, God accepted it. A cup of water given in His name is accepted as given to Himself. Nothing that is done for God is small.
An Anecdote about Tennyson
It is said that Tennyson once asked an old Christian woman if there was any news.
"Why, Mr. Tennyson," she replied, "there's only one piece of news that I know, and that is—Christ died for all men."
"That is old news, and good news, and new news," Tennyson responded.
On Satan's Ground
There is a legend that the Apostle John was much distressed over the fall of a young convert. He summoned Satan before him, and reproached him for ruining so good a youth.