Excerpt from Hits and Misses
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace good will toward men! - Luke ii, 14.
No merely human mind has ever been able to foresee all the consequences of any single event. There is often a startling disproportion in the causes and results of human history. The mountain labors and brings forth a mouse, and the mouse, with his tiny teeth, liberates a lion or lets in a flood. Immensities dwindle to nothings, and nothings expand to immensities. More often than otherwise, God is in the still, small voice rather than the earthquake, and the weak things are more likely to confound the mighty than to be confounded by them.
Nothing is more common or more trivial as a passing event, than the birth of a little child. Nothing is more helpless, nothing more insignificant than a newborn baby. One of them is ushered into being at every beat of the second hand of the clock, but it is hardly more than once in a century that one of them leaves more of a mark upon history than a vessel on an ocean.
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