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Of course this is only a little incident, but it has its good sound like the poor widow's two mites in the Bible, the sound which echoes in the depth of every human heart; and this is what the poet ought to show and point out more especially in our own time he ought to sing of this; it does good, it mitigates and reconciles!
As darkness came down we lit our lamps, and there along the roadside sat rows of fugitives, resting before recommencing their long journey through the night. There was one row of little children which will live for ever in my memory, tiny mites sitting together on a bank by the roadside. We only saw them for an instant as our lights fell on them, and they disappeared in the darkness.
He volunteered no explanations as to how he expected mother to know the time, but, perhaps, like many other mites of his kind, he had unbounded faith in the infinitude of a mother's wisdom. His name was Arvie Aspinall, please sir, and he lived in Jones's Alley. Father was dead.
And when men have juggled what they can, and made never such a prattle about religion; yet if their greatest excellency, as to the visibility of their saintship, lieth in an outward conformity to an outward circumstance in religion, their profession is not worth two mites.
"Those are only mites, you silly child," her father said, and then to her horror, he took up the piece, and ate it. "Do look at that child, Caroline!" he exclaimed, "she's turned quite pale." Beth puzzled her head for long afterwards to know what it meant to turn pale. Little seeds of superstition were sown in her mind at this time, and afterwards flourished.
When an English writer is diffuse, he cannot help it; when a French writer is diffuse, he effects it by sheer effort at repetition. And we humble hack scribblers, who confidingly slip our daily, and weekly, and monthly mites into the vast mass of current reading turned out for an omnivorous public let us hope that the world's maw may long remain unsated and the market unglutted.
While many of the mites are parasitic on animals, some are known to devour the eggs of insects and other mites, thrusting their beaks into the egg, and sucking the contents. Shimer has observed the Acarus? malus sucking the eggs of the Chinch bug.
The attachment of incoming tots to the older girls was a custom.... I do not recall her.... There was always a string of mites with shiny pigtails and big-eyed wistful faces. The older girls never thought very much about them. One has a swarm-memory, but individuals escape one. The older girl, in these schools, fancied herself immensely.
"Well, anyhow, I don't see why I should have a child just because you want one." "I don't want one. For shame to say such things, Ellen Alce." "You want me to have one, then, for your benefit." "Don't you want one yourself?" "No not now. I've told you I don't care for children." "Then you should ought to! Dear little mites! It's a shame to talk like that.
With this scene in mind we should be careful not to call our offerings “mites” unless they are all that we possess; we should be encouraged, however, to know that our Lord looks upon the heart and estimates the gift by the motive and the love and the sacrifice involved; above all, we should be reminded that we can best measure our offerings not by what we give but by how much we keep.
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