Giving Promotes Growth

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 21.

Giving Promotes Growth

GAIN comes through outlay; giving promotes growth. Loss comes through hoarding; holding brings decay. The law is the same, so far, in the realm of spirit and of matter. Hand, head, and heart must be taxed in order to live. He who would have must spend. He who would hold must yield. The more one does, the greater his power of doing. Only he who uses knowledge has a permanent hold on knowledge. The heart that gives out love unsparingly is the heart that has most love yet to give:—

“For the heart grows rich in giving; all its wealth is living grain; Seeds, which mildew in the garner, scattered, fill with gold the plain.”

—Sunday School Times.