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secret of happiness.” It is a miserable creed, fit only for a fallen world at its worst. It is founded upon a selfishness that would degrade us below the level of the brutes. And its main contention is a lie; for true happiness consists, not in getting, but in giving. The happiest Being in the universe is the God Who never ceases to give, without thought of profit to Himself, Grabbing, being founded upon self-consideration, is “earthly, sensual, devilish” ; giving, being built upon love, is heavenly and Divine: The one sinks us lower and lower into the pit of corruption, the other lifts us nearer the sapphire throne; the one debases our nature, the other refines it; the one binds upon our shoulders an ever-increasing burden of carking care, the other fills our hearts with ethereal gladness that wafts us upwards till we seem to hold communion with the angel choirs. The man who is ever bent upon getting becomes bankrupt in all save gold, and breeds in his bosom the undying worm of perpetual dissatisfaction; the man who lives to bestow lays up for himself wCalth both here and hereafter, for “the heart grows rich in giving,” and he accumulates treasures in heaven such as the hand of avarice shall never touch. THIS does not mean that we are not to desire anything which belong' to our neighbor; It cannot: 'Tor God never commands the impossible, and there>are some things for which we cannot help longing whenever we see them. In the literateur a rare edition, in the bon vivant a delicacy, excites an appetite which no law is able to suppress: These things are natural and right; therefore; they cannot be forbidden. But we are not to desire the possession of the delectable thing at the expense of its rightful owner. We are not even to wish that we might rob him of the treasure which is not ours, but his. Nor are we to feel any-evil will at the-fact that he has been blessed with that which has not fallen to our share. Nay, we are to re joice, according to the law of love, that he is more highly fa vored (in that respect at least) than we. All primal natural desires are, in themselves, lawful and innocent. They are the gifts of God; they are parts of our unfallen nature; it is only when they are debased and intermingled with sin that they become “lusts” in the common acceptation of the term. Among these “lusts” covetousness is one of the most common, and the most fruitful of evil. The desire to obtain, by improper means, that which we do not possess, is responsible for more than half the misery of the world. Reckoned by men amongst the trifling faults or infirmities of the flesh, hardly considered as a fault, much less as a sin, it occupies a first place in Heaven’s catalogue of crimes. So native is it, however, to our fallen heart, that we need to seek perpetual grace in order that its impulse may be overcome.- THE woman’s faith and obedience were to be the measure of her blessing. The extent to which her pot of oil should increase depended upon the number of vessels she should borrow into which to pour it. Unbelief would have refused to borrow any; it would have asked “What is the use of merely pouring oil from one vessel into another?” and the result would have been perpetual bankruptcy. Little faith would have been con tent with a small number cf vessels; it would not have dared to expect great things; and, as a consequence, the relief would have been limited. The conditions of God-given wealth and happiness have not changed since the days of Elisha. “Open ^fe. a» D ecember 4. : "Thou shalt not cowi.jE-Ex. 20 :17, D ecember 5. “Borrow not a few .”—2 Kings 4 :3.
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