The Work of Minute Insects
AnalogyObject Lesson★★★★The labors of minute insects have served to build up lofty mountains. Broad bands of solid rock, which undergird the earth, have been welded by the patient, constant toil of invisible creatures, working on through the ages, unhasting, unresisting, fulfilling their Maker’s will. On the shores of primeval oceans, watched only by the patient stars, these silent workmen have been building for us the structure of the world. And thus the obscure work of unknown, nameless ages, appears at last in the sunlight—the adorned and noble theater of that life of man which, of all that is done in this universe, is fullest before God of interest and hope.
It is thus, too, in life; the quiet moments build the years.
The point
The patient, persistent labor of tiny invisible creatures over ages has built the solid rock foundations of the earth and human civilization; quiet moments similarly build the years of our lives.