Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

64 BIBLE REVIEW Nov.
owner now looks at what was once a picture of beauty,
and wonders what is the matter. But he has only broken
a simple law. He has received without giving. As we
go on higher up the scale of life, we see the same law operating.
but it is not so apparent as on the lower planes.
But who has not seen the lean soul who did nothing but
receive, he took all that he could get, but gave nothing
in return. The miser may accumulate money, but he
ltarves his own soul thereby. We often hear of rich men
who envey the poor laborer his enjoyment of food. For the
rich man used all his strength in accumulating wealth,
but did not give his body the wherewithal to recuperate it.
"But," says one, "The Christ said, 'To him that hath
shall be given."'True but he said it to the one who knew
enough to apply this law; for he condemned the man who
did not give out his talent. Likewise this law cordcmns
every one who is afraid of giving in return for services of
any kind whatever. It does not condemn in words, but
in something more powerful than words-in results.
All the laws that God set into action when the world
was made, are in the astral waiting to be taken and formulated
by the mind of man, and then exprest in the material.
So when men formulates one of these laws, and
the results are not in evidence, he may be sure that his
own mind is at fault, and not the law, for God's
laws are
immutable. "To him that hath shall be given"-to him
that has mind enough to work these laws, it"shall be
given." This law of giving obtains more powerfully on
the spiritual plane then on either the physical or mental,
for one who receives largely of spiritual gifts must be a
constant stream of giving. He must be as it were a channel
thru which the Divine Mind flows, giving out a constant
supply to all the suffering and needy children of
earth-a never-ceasing fountain of receiving and giving,
afountain that is a "well of water springing up into
everlasting life."