A RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
GIVING AND RECEIVING To be overdrawn at the Bank of Life—to take out, in the currency of personal ease, comfort, self-indulgence, more than we are prepared to pay in of the coin of kindness, helpfulness, service—this is the practical atheism, and the sure prelude to the world’s moral and spiritual bankruptcy. Bernard Shaw’s definition of a gentleman is “a man who tries to put into the common stock a little more than he takes out.” Tersely and finely put. And Jesus Christ put it even more tersely and finely in His declaration: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3297, 6 August 1943, Page 8
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104A RELIGIOUS THOUGHT Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3297, 6 August 1943, Page 8
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