Man’s care for his own body involves care for the least important members of it. A lover’s devotion is known by his interest in the minutest concerns of his beloved. So all our affairs are matters of interest to God. Pope’s Essay on Man: “All nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.” If harvests may be labored for and lost without any agency of God; if rain or sun may act like fate, sweeping away the results of years, and God have no hand in it all; if wind and storm may wreck the ship and drown our dearest friends, and God not care for us or for our loss, then all possibility of general trust in God will disappear also. God’s care is shown in the least things as well as in the greatest. In Gethsemane Christ says: “_Let these go their way: that the word might be fulfilled which he spake, Of those whom thou hast given me I lost not one_” (_John 18:8, 9_). It is the same spirit as that of his intercessory prayer: “_I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition_” (_John 17:12_). Christ gives himself as a prisoner that his disciples may go free, even as he redeems us from the curse of the law by being made a curse for us (_Gal. 3:13_). The dewdrop is moulded by the same law that rounds the planets into spheres. Gen. Grant said he had never but once sought a place for himself, and in that place he was a comparative failure; he had been an instrument in God’s hand for the accomplishing of God’s purposes, apart from any plan or thought or hope of his own.