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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 24, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 28.

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GIVING.

WHAT is a gift? Some rare and costly thing— Which only wealth is privileged to bestow? A joy that opulence alone can bring? A boon that poverty may never know? Nay! nay! the sweetest gifts that life adorn, Ne'er left the loving hearts where they were born.
More humble gifts than e'en the “widow's mite,” Whose fame rolls down through the applauding years, Shall live in memories, safe from Lethe's blight— Preserved in love, embalmed in holy tears. Our rarest gifts are hungering to bestow The good that ne'er may come to us below.
All that in man is best, the stamp shall bear Of that which we call immortality; And fond good wills, defeated now, shall share The glad fruition of the time to be. God frames our purpose true in purer gold Than eye of mortal ever may behold.
There is a wealth descending from the sky, That falls on every loyal gift we bring, A heavenly fragrance that can never die, Breathing through all our true heart-offering. If with each gift unselfish love we weave, “More blessed 'tis to give than to receive.” —S. S. Times.