October 25

The eleven disciples went. . . into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. . . Jesus came and spake unto them saying. . . Go ye and teach all nations. Matthew 28:16 ; Matthew 28:18-19.

The considerable actions in the world have usually very small beginnings. Of a few letters, how many thousand words are made! Of ten figures, how many thousand numbers! A point is the beginning of all geometry. A little stone flung into a pond makes a little circle, then a greater, till it enlarges itself to both the sides. So from small beginnings God doth cause an efflux through the whole world. Charnock.