Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-29
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HOUR
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill.

For Sunday, October 80, 1914.
Topic: How Giving Reacts Upon Me-" Proverbs
0, 10; Corinthians 8: ell.
Proverbs 80 Honor the Lord with thy
substance, and with the first fruits of all
thine increase:
10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty
and thy presses shall burst out with new
wine.
II Corinthians 9:6 But this 1 say He
which soweth sparingly shall reap also
sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully
shall reap also beautifully.
= Every man according as he purposeth
in his heart so let him give; not grudginG-
ly or of necessity; for God loveth cheer
full giver.
g. And God is able to make all grace
abound toward you; that ye, always hav-
ing all sufficiency in all things, may abound
to every good work.
o. AS it is written, He hath dispersed
abroad; he hath given to the poor; his
righteousness remaineth forever.
10. Now he that ministereth seed to the
sewer doth minister bread for your food
and multiply your seed sown, and increase
the fruits of your righteousness.
IL. Being enriched in everything to all
bountifulness. which causeth through us
thanksgiving to God.
The Lesson.
to understand Gods promises which are
every one founded upon law of the uni
verse, that it has been necessary for Him
to put great flaming Illustrations of them
all about over the earth, in nature in life,
so that we may understand and believe
them. And there is no law of which this
is more true than that of giving. The
promise, Give and 1t shall be given unto
YOU is well recognized outside of the
haC re
world in the familiar phrase. Nothing ven
ture nothing gain Business men know
that they must give in order to get.
Now a great many Christians seem to con-
slider this a low motive for giving to the
Lord in order that they may get back again,
but God Himself has given 1t to US as a mo-
tive How many promises are there in con-
nection with giving! 1t would be a profita-
BILE study for this meeting to gather them
together. And after all, 1t isn't a low mo-
tive at all. 1t is not as il God was poor and
begged us to give Him a little out of our
wealth. holding out as inducement that
we shall be the gamers thereby. For the
wealth Of the hills is His. THE silver is
mine and the gold is mine, saith the Lord
of Hosts 1t isn't for that at all that we
are to give. 1t is for our own benefit Not
for our benefit III money alone, either,
though tie promise of that is sure, too, and
has been many times proven by His saints.
But there is an eternal good that comes TO
us with giving, good to our souls. AS
more and still more to give. There is form
OF animal life that multiplieS and grows
burger by giving off parts of itself. If We
had a soul microscope we might see our
avn souls grow larger as we give.
Then besides that soul growth we reap
bel eft of gratitude and love and respect
whose influence means more benefit to us
than we can ev.r estimate. Often it is I'M
Known 10 us on the earth, but we shall
surely be given to understand in heaven.
rrnere is no giving that does not repay
fourfold in the end, though sometimes We
90 not know 1t, nor connect the good that
comes to us with the giving. For II does
happen that We give occasionally to I'M
grateful people, and yet we should remem-
Der tnat we are not giving so much to the
people as to our Lord who for some great
mysterious reason prizes our poor little
gifts to Him, that is. If it be given cheer
fully" not ''grudgingly."
Some may think that it does not matter
row we feel about the giving so the Lord
gels the money, but 1t is not So and the
Z bic has made 1t plain that 1t matters not
so much what we give the way we give
it. 1t is necessary, of course, that we get
gain in order to live. The instinct for get
ting was put into us for purpose, and the
man who has no ambition to earn living
is showed aside and worth nothing, but
having obtained 1t we are hidden to be as
willing to give H., in just proportion to Him
who has given power to get wealth."
And he tells us that our very freeness in
giving 1t to others more In need than we
opens to US the way to get more because
God is able to make all grace abound to-
ward us that We may have IAN sufficiency