- draw his troops. Kerman never recovered
from this terrible blow, and to-day is a by-*word for its poverty and beggars. There is a quaint saying among its beggars:
"Khuda guft, 'Beddeh';
Shaitan guft, 'Neddeh.'"
This means, "God says, 'Give'; Satan
says, 'Don't give.'"
The generous impulse is a divine motion:
the selfish, is satanic. Many are
poor because they are first blind and do
not possess the enlightenment of good
sense and God's grace.
(1221)
Forever the sun is pouring its gold
On a hundred worlds that beg and borrow;
His warmth he squandered on summits cold,
His wealth on the homes of want and sorrow;
To withhold his largeness of precious light
Is to bury himself in eternal night.
To give
Is to live.
(1222)
See Almsgiving; Benevolence; Generosity;
Getting and Giving; Happiness; Personal
Preaching.
GIVING, FAITHFUL
In the station over which Mr. C. T. Studd
ministered in China every man who was a
Christian gave one-tenth of his annual income
to the Lord. One day a young man
who was earning seventy-two shillings a
year came to Mr. Studd and said, "Pastor,
I want you to give me a few days' grace. I
have not yet got together quite all my tenth."
He handed a good sum to him, and the pastor
asked, "Haven't you been helping to support
your father and mother?" "Yes."
"And kept your little brother at school?"
"Yes." "Well, that is more than your
tenth," said Mr. Studd. "You need not
bring any more."
"No," said the young man, "I have promised God my tenth, and no matter what I give beside, I am going to give my full tenth to God." And he did. (Text.)
(1223)
Giving that Grows.—See Missionary, A Little.
GIVING THE MINIMUM
During the Civil War coins became difficult
to obtain, and paper money was furnished
in their place, and at one time the
lowest denomination was a "five-cent scrip."
The time came when the government minted
the three-cent nickel piece. The treasurer
of a church, a fine man, who had a brother,
a missionary in Siam, said to me, "Pastor,
it is very unfortunate that the government
should have issued this three-cent piece, because
when we had nothing smaller than a
five-cent scrip, people put that into the collection,
but now, that we have got something
so small as a three-cent nickel, our
collections will fall off two-fifths!"
(1224)
GIVING THROUGH LOVE
Queen Tyi was a woman of marked ability,
the consort of King Amenhotep III,
who ruled in Egypt from 1414 to 1379 B.C.
Recently Egyptologists discovered her shrine
in Thebes. It was cut out of solid rock.
Approach to it was by a descent of twenty
steps, adjoining that of Rameses I. Around
and within were all that material, wealth
and skill of Egyptian art could offer. The
coffin, itself intact, is a superb example of
the jeweler's craft, the woodwork covered
with a frame of gold inlaid with lapsis
lazuli, carmelian and green glass. The royal
mummy was wrapt from head to foot in
sheets of gold, bracelets on the arms, a
necklace of gold, beads and ornaments encrusted
with precious stones around the
neck, and the head encircled by the imperial
crown of the queen of ancient Egypt. "Behold
how he loved her," can be said of the
king whose consort she was. Nothing is
too precious for love to give. (Text.)
(1225)
Giving, Unostentatious.—See Benevolence, Modest.
Giving What We Have—See Talents.
GLITTER VERSUS DEPTH
To have an overwhelming flow of words
is one thing; to have a large vocabulary is
another; and very often Swinburne's torrent
of speech reminds us not so much of a
natural fountain whose springs are deep
and abundant, as of an artificial fountain,
which is always ready to shoot aloft its
glittering spray, and always reabsorbs itself
for some further service; so that while the
fashion of the jet may differ, the water is
pretty much the same.—W. J. Dawson, "The
Makers of English Poetry."
(1226)
Gloom Dispelled—See Sunshine, Scattering.
