Conservation Of Remainders
Faithfulness means nurturing what little remains after loss, both personally and in the church.
A man was in possession of a great farm. The abundant crops finally failed, and other calamities came, and at last the wife of the great landowner lost her reason. Nearly all had been lost, and the farmer was left with only a few feet of ground as his possession. I had not the courage to visit this man in his destitution. After a lapse of time, however, I went to his humble abode, and was amazed to see the little garden in the highest state of cultivation. And I exclaimed: “Why, how is this? How did you have the heart to do this, after you had lost all?”
“Why, what would you have had me do?” was the reply. “This is all I had, and I tried to make the best of it.”
So it is for us to strengthen that which is left in the Church and in ourselves as individuals.
— OLIN A. CURTIS