Signature of Charles W. Gordon (Ralph Connor)

Contents

  1. [Little Things]
  2. ["It's No Matter"]
  3. ["I Don't Care"]
  4. [Temper]
  5. [Selfishness]
  6. [Impurity]
  7. ["I Can't"]
  8. ["I Forgot"]
  9. ["By-and-By"]
  10. [Boldness]
  11. [Revenge]
  12. [Untruthfulness]
  13. ["I Can't Be Bothered!"]
  14. [Thanklessness]
  15. [Cruelty]
  16. [Cowardliness]
  17. [Dishonesty]
  18. ["Limpy Late"]
  19. ["Sissy Slow"]
  20. [Shame]
  21. ["A Battered Warship"]
  22. [Boucher, the French-Canadian Voyageur]
  23. [One By One]
  24. [What Makes a Good Soldier?]
  25. [The Soldier's Outfit—Shoes]
  26. [The Soldier's Outfit—The Rifle]
  27. [The Soldier's Outfit—The Belt And Puttee]
  28. [The Soldier's Outfit—The Kit Bag]
  29. [The Soldier's Outfit—The Uniform]
  30. ["Q" and "S" Grocery]
  31. [Betsy]
  32. [A Life Degree]

I

LITTLE THINGS

In the second chapter of the Song of Songs and in the fifteenth verse you may read these words: "Take me the little foxes that spoil the vines."

How often you hear people say, "Oh, well, it's so little! What difference will such a little thing make?" And yet—

Every girl and boy knows that the mighty ocean is made up of tiny drops. The great Niagara is, too. Its noise is simply the small patter of drops multiplied into a thunder.

The little drops are made of molecules, which though Science gives them a big name, are so small you cannot see them.