CULTIVATE DOMESTIC PEACE
To those scenes of domestic peace, which pure religion created and adorned, the thoughts of the youngest member of the family will cling in after years; they will become a kind of hallowed ground in his memory; they will exert a restraining and sanctifying power; and thus we may expect to see the promise fulfilled: - “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
LITTLE THINGS
Springs are little things, but they are sources of large streams; a helm is a little thing, but governs the course of a ship; a bridle bit is a little thing, but see its use and power! Nails and pegs are little things, but they hold the large parts of large buildings together; a word, a look, a frown – all are little things, but powerful for good and evil. Think of this, and mind the little things. Pay that little debt - `tis promised – redeem it; if it is a shilling, hand it over – you know not what important event hangs upon it. Keep your word sacredly; keep it to the children, they will mark it sooner than any one else, and the effect will probably be as lasting as life. Mind the little things.