"IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 14

"IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE"

Many of ub have Only oflft Concem in life and that is to get, We praetise the art day in,- day out; for its sake we face disappointment and ev6n disaster With cOUrage and conviction that sucCess niUst conie at last tO reward our perseverance. "It is inore blessed to give," sounds like satire in these days oi push fliid blistle. The World acts on the prMciple that it is more blessed to rtctive thafl to give; that it is intieh xriore pleaSaht to reGeive than to give. All fhis is sadly Wfong from the staiidpOiiit of God. What are we here for? Stifely iiot simply to get. We are here to iHake the world a- iittle better than We fouhd it. it is not the thiligS that we attraet to OUrselves, but ihe good that We diffuse aniojig others that inakes our life rieh and beautiful; ahd we are blessed, not in What we 1 gdinj but only in What we give. Measufe thy life by loSs and not by gaih, Kot by the wine drunk, But by the wine poUred forth; iror iove's service standeth in lote's sacrifice And Whoso suffers riiOst has most to give, Givihg is the VSfy coiiditiOn of existence. The clouds give rain. The flow- . ers give theif perfuiiie and their bOauty. The cowS giVe- theif milk and the bees their honey. The sun gives its light and hedti Who ceases to give ceUses to live. God has given 1is many things. We live in a beautiful World of sunshine and iLWers, fruit afid Gtlier delights too flu' ierotis to mentiOn. Wher'e do they cOrfte froni? James, in the 17th verse of the first chapter of his epistie, teiis iis: "Every gOod gift aiid every perfect gift is from above." When LiimaeUS, the eluifient botanist, visited Englaiid and saw th§ gofse in blcfOm for the first tihie in his life he fell on his knees and thanked God; Wofdsworth, that great lover of natiife, stated that this favourite text Was, ' Thou, Lord, hast made we glad thrdUgh Thy Worhs; ' '