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from this terrible blow, and to-day is a by-*word for its poverty and beggars. There is a quaint saying among its beggars:
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"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.

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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.

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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.)

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Giving that Grows.—See.

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!"

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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 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.)

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Giving, Unostentatious.—See.

Giving What We Have—See.

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.—, "The Makers of English Poetry."

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Gloom Dispelled—See.