Giving and Taking
WE all hear a lot about the cheerful giver nowa- : days when giving is so necessary. One of the great consolations about a time like the present is that people are so generous. They give so much and they give so cheerfully. They seem to be really acting up to the Biblical remark about its being
more Diessed to give than to receive. More blessed? Why, of course it is- particularly when the giver is a cheerful one. But there’s one point people sometimes overlook; if it’s more blessed to give than to receive, it’s also a great deal easier. Oh, yes-giving is great fun. But it’s not half so much fun receiving. I think that’s where most of us have a struggle. Not
in giving. Whatever people say, most of us are fairly generous. But having to be a taker-that’s much harder. It’s a real struggle for many of us. "I’m not a good taker,’ we say-and we think that excuses us. But it is really a very serious fault. It’s just as much a lack of generosity not to be able to take as not to be able to give. (Mary Scott "The Morning Spell: The Cheerful Taker," 2Y A, September 7)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 64, 13 September 1940, Page 5
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207Giving and Taking New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 64, 13 September 1940, Page 5
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