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One day, in our Revolutionary War times, a lame boy, a blacksmith’s boy, was very disconsolate because he could not go to fight the Hesians, as many of his companions had done. Some soldiers rode up to the shop in great haste, and wanted to know if there was any one there who could shoe a horse. Luke replied, “I think I can.” When the horse was shod one of the men said, “Boy, no ten men who have left you today have served your country as you have.”
When you read in the history about Colonel Warner riding up just in time to save the battle of Bennington, remember that if Luke Varnum, the lame boy, had not been in the blacksmith’s shop that day Colonel Warner’s horse could not have carried him to the battle. We do not know when on our smallest acts destinies may turn. The greatest thing you can do any day is your duty, no matter how small it may be in itself. The will of God takes in all the tasks of the common days, the matters of business, of household work, of school, of play. To fail in little things is to fail in doing God’s will, and that mars the completeness of the life work.