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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 46.

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GIVING

By James Russell Lowell

He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite,— The hand can not clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a God goes with it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before. —James Russell Lowell.