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THE HABIT OF GIVING

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 12, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 15, No. 21.

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THE HABIT OF GIVING.

By Wayland

"It is only by commencing early in life the consecration of our substance to God, that we can establish the habit of benevolence. While we postpone the discharge of our duty until we have become wealthy, the love of gain is insensibly acquiring strength, we listen to the claims of benevolence with less and less sensibility, and at last become deaf to the voice of humanity. When we are able to give without the smallest self-denial, the disposition to give has perished, and we have been transformed into the very misers whom once we thoroughly despised."