ON GIVING A PRESENT
_. SACRIFICE FOR LOVE’S SAKE. When you give a present to a friend, you are perfectly free; your own will chooses to give the present and what present to give, says the Archbishop of York, Dr. Temple, writing in “Theology.” Yet your whole action is determined by the pleasure of the friend for whom the present is intended. And the giving of a present is a form of sacrifice, for the principle of sacrifice is that for love’s sake we choose to do or suffer what, apart from love, we should not choose to do or suffer. It need not be painful. Indeed, when the sacrifice is accepted with gratitude and the love which prompts it is returned, it is the most delightful thing in life. Arid such sacrifice is the fundamental principle of the life of heaven.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1941, Page 7
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141ON GIVING A PRESENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1941, Page 7
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