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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: to less advantage in the sight of Heaven.
It is not required of every man and woman to be, or to do,
something great; most of us must content ourselves with taking
small parts in the chorus. Shall we have no little lyrics because
Homer and Dante have written epics? And because we have heard the
great organ at Freiburg, shall the sound of Kathi's zither in the
alpine hut please us no more? Even those who have greatness thrust
upon them will do well to lay the burden down now and then, and
congratulate themselves that they are not altogether answerable for
the conduct of the universe, or at least not all the time. "I
reckon," said a cowboy to me one day, as we were riding through the
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