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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 6, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 18.

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Giving and Receiving

By Plass

If deeds of love you would achieve, This one great truth you must believe: By giving you can best receive.
With prophet poor your cruse divide; The little left is multiplied, And want is kept far from your side.
Give water with a liberal hand; And though a famine curse the land, You never once athirst shall stand.
Scatter the seed across the field; Expect that when the scythe you wield, Abundant increase it will yield.
Give all you have in faith that more Will be supplied from God’s own store; Blessings will fall beside the door.
The naked clothe, the hungry feed; What would supply a brother’s need Lay not aside in selfish greed.
God sees the gift before him laid, The liberal soul shall fat be made, The deed of love full well repaid.
— Plass.