Indeed it is the little things that fret and tease and nag so.  The big things are more easily handled.  But the little insectivorous details that will not down!  Have you ever had this experience?  You have retired on a hot summer night, tired and heavy with sleep.  You are almost off when a mosquito that in some inexplicable way has eluded all screens and nettings comes singing its way about your face.  It is just one.  It seems so small.  If it were only big enough to hit, something worthy of one’s strength.  But the mean little nagging specimen seems to elude every effort of yours.  Maybe you take calm, deliberate measures to end its existence, but meanwhile you are thoroughly aroused and lose quite a bit of the sleep you need.

Just such a mosquito warfare do the little cares make upon one’s strength, frittering it away.  It cannot be too insistently repeated that whatever is big enough to cause me any thought is not too small for my God.  He is concerned because I am concerned.

A Steamer Chair for His Friend.

It helps immensely here to recall the necessary qualities of a great executive, one who is concerned about the conduct of large affairs.  There are two great qualities absolutely needful in any one occupying such a position.  There must be the ability to grasp the whole scheme involved, and to keep one’s finger upon every detail, as well.  God is a great executive, the great executive of the universe.  He planned the vast scheme of worlds making up the universe, and every detail.  The whole universe in its immensity, and the intricacy of its movements, is kept in motion by Him.  And every detail down to the smallest, the falling of one of the smallest birds, is ever under His thoughtful eye and touch.  And He is our God.  He has each of us on His heart.

We may learn of God by looking at man, made in His image.  A story is told of a merchant well known on both sides of the water, illustrating this.  His business interests are very extensive, with great stores in three of the world’s great cities.  He has displayed great genius for controlling the details of his vast enterprise.  It is said that at one time when his business was developing its greatness, this was his habit.  He would come to a clerk’s desk unexpectedly and, sitting down quietly, note the transactions that came along.  Here was a sales slip; three yards of calico, seven cents per yard, twenty-one cents; a bolt of tape, three cents, total twenty-four cents; cash fifty cents, twenty-six cents change.  He would very quietly note the calculations, and call attention to any inaccuracies.