Show hw how little things do harm oftentimes it is little faults little carelessness in conduct little litile blemishes in character the no harms that make fairly good people almost useless so far as their influence goes there was a great light house out at sea one night the men lighted the lamps as usual some time afterward they saw that there appeared no light upon the water where ordinarily there was a bright lane of beams they examined their lamps they were burning brightly but they looked outside and there were millions of little insects on the glass so thickly piled there that the light could not get through in the m orning morning they learned that a ship had been beebi wrecked close by because the light had been obscured by the in ta beets here is the lesson says dr miller the lamp may be burning brightly in your soul or in mine but little faults pride ugly temper selfishness I 1 fish ness half heartedness bad habits of lot io tongue carelessness about paying debts or keeping promises a hundred other things may so 80 cloud our urea as to 0 obscure the image of 0 god in our souls perhaps some soul h has been lost because your lamp does not shine with a clear U ht we counsel deop people le to be good beautiful in character faithful in all duties ireful careful not in the SM smallest way to dim di the grace within 1 |