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  THE SMALL THINGS
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of attending to small
things in our lives for the sake of Christ our Master, as they play a
crucial role in our spiritual growth and character formation.

Topics: "Christian Living", "Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Proverbs 4:23, Matthew 5:19, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Galatians 6:9, Colossians 3:23

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DESCRIPTION
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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of paying attention to
the details of our daily lives, highlighting the significance of small
acts of kindness, regularity in prayer, good-humor, and avoiding
temptations and annoyances. She explains that these seemingly minor
actions are crucial expressions of a loving heart devoted to Christ.
Frederick Temple underscores the value of upholding great sterling
duties such as truthfulness, refusal to condone wrong, self-control,
purity, and diligence, as they shape our character and prepare us to be
instruments in God's hands for His divine purposes.

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CONTENT
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Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and
shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of
heaven.

MATTHEW 5:19

THE great sterling duties, the exact truth of word, the resolute refusal
to countenance wrong, the command of temper, the mastery of indolence,
the unstained purity,--these, and such as these, form the character, and
fashion our souls into instruments in God's hands for high and heavenly
purposes in His Providence. But the carefulness over details, the
watchfulness against faults which we know to be faults, but which,
notwithstanding, seem venial, the devout regularity and attention in our
private prayers, the invariable good-humor of our manners, the seeking
for occasions of kindness and unselfishness, the avoidance of little
temptations, the care not to cause little annoyances and little
troubles,--to attend to all this for the sake of Christ our Master is
the natural and fitting expression of a loving heart.

FREDERICK TEMPLE

The sins by which God's Spirit is ordinarily grieved are the sins of
small things--laxities in keeping the temper, slight neglects of duty,
sharpness of dealing.

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