Long unbroken years

Long unbroken years of simple faithfulness

The glamour of the brilliant, is apt to deceive us. There is so much glorifying of the unusual and the phenomenal in life, that we come to think the common as of but small importance.

People whose days are all alike in their dull routine, feel that their life is scarcely worth living. If only they could do something startling or sublime , or even sensational , to lift them out of the dreary commonplace of their everydays — they would feel that they were living nobly and worthily.

But, if they could realize that it is by its moral value that life's worth is measured, they would know that there is ten times more true nobility in long unbroken years of simple faithfulness , without distinction or conspicuousness at any point — than there is in any unusual brilliancy in an occasional day or hour.

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