SAVED BY A GIFT | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jun 21, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 25.

SAVED BY A GIFT.

A MAN of wealth and culture had just buried his wife and child, whom he idolized. He was in utter despair, for he was all alone in the world. As he walked the streets one night trying to get courage to commit suicide, he was met by an outcast child, who begged him to give her something to eat. Impatiently he flung a coin at her feet and then followed her to see what she would do with it. She bought a loaf of bread and ate as only a starving child could eat. His interest was aroused, he forgot his own trouble and then and there undertook the support of the child, and lived to become a Christian philanthropist. He was saved by a gift to an unknown beggar. "A heart opened by love for man," writes Ida Q. Moulton in The Record of Christian Work, "soon comes to know the love of God and gives to Him." Giving not only creates, but increases, love.