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Presently Kitty said, "I guess Mr. Holbrook don't know just how mother is, or he wouldn't talk so." "Yes, but," said Tip quickly, "God knew all about it always, you know; and yet He said that verse." "So He did," answered Kitty gravely. "Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth." "Bah," said Will Bailey, "you're fooling, Howard Minturn!"
This is the fire which, in one and the same moment, kindleth the flame of love in the breasts of the faithful, and induceth the chill of heedlessness in the heart of the enemy. O friend! It behooveth us not to waive the injunction of God, but rather acquiesce and submit to that which He hath ordained as His divine Testimony.
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Then I, speaking again as if some other moved my tongue, replied that none could say what matter a little fire kindleth, but those that came after us might know the result of that which we that night begun. But Sir Humphrey shook his head. "If but Nat Bacon were alive!" he sighed. "No leader have we, Harry. Oh, Harry, if thou wert not a convict!
Helen was half ashamed to hear herself asking, "How late was it?" "About twelve." "But I'm awake half the night. I should have heard. Besides would there be any harm?" "Just as much as there is in playing with fire," Lily said. "'Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth," Helen said, looking at the ground.
"Where she wills to be, there she chooses a man to serve her," would not only have been more gallant but more reasonable; for that "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the spirit," and that "many are called, few chosen," are sayings as true of the influence which kindleth art as of that which quickeneth to holiness.
And so the courage that kindleth his heart and enflameth it for God's sake and his soul's health shall, by the same grace that put it in his mind, give him such comfort and joy therein that the pleasure of his soul shall surpass the pain of his body.
Great effects not unfrequently flow from small causes. The apostle James says, see chap. iii "Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small helm whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
And the parallelism between the two is exact up to a certain point. What difference a little point doth make; like the little fire, behold, how great a matter it kindleth! Indeed, lacking that one detail the older story would have had no value; it would not have been told; without its addition this would have been a repetition of the other.
My heart is glad; I have learned much; I know that our Father holds so closely his beloved, that no one of his children shall call to him unheard." We had a real meeting, as Jane expressed it, and I said to Louis: "What a great fire a small matter kindleth!"
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