p. 13 | CHRISTIAN GIVING by Charles H. Daniels

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1902

CHRISTIAN GIVING.

By Charles H. Daniels

The Gospel which has come to us must be carried to others. Whether it is true that there is nothing beautiful in nature except it reflects light, we will not say. It is true that every heart which is made light must reflect its radiant glory. One who has received the message of life can not keep it to himself. The man who has walked with God can not keep the secret. His very garments of righteousness will give out a fragrance like that of heavenly blossoms. The face of Moses was the declaration of his heavenly interview. Every man born into the kingdom of God is from that moment a preacher of the glad tidings of great joy. The hungry heart once satisfied will not hide the loaf from hungry hearts all about him. We are touching the spirit of Christ, of whom it was said, “Ye know the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, that tho He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.” In heart-life it is what we give away that makes us rich. By instructing you are instructed, and you gain in giving more than he who receives. “Not that I desire a gift,” said Paul, when thanking the church at Philippi, “but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.” A great law of Christian giving is thus set before us.—Charles H. Daniels, D. D.