Which they will be ashamed to forsake.
’Tis sloth they hate, and cowardice.”
CO-OPERANT UNITS.
Ephesians iv. 16.
The universal Church is designated by the apostle a body, which whole body is fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part. And every part in its measure, and according to its imparted power. Very little are some of the joints and fibres; but every little helps. Who shall despise the whole of small things? But for the accumulated atoms, the aggregated littles, where were the body?
“Let me not deem that I was made in vain,
Or that my Being was an accident,
Which Fate, in working its sublime intent,