'Be steadfast, Christian giver: give what you may
receive, sow what you may reap, scatter what you may gather. Fear not to
spend, sigh not over the doubtfulness of the gain. Your substance grows
when it is wisely dispensed. Set your heart on the profits due to
mercy, and traffic in eternal gains. Your Recompenser wishes you to be
munificent, and He who gives that you may have, commands you to spend,
saying, "Give, and it shall be given to you." You must thankfully
embrace the conditions of this promise. For although you have nothing
that you did not receive, yet you cannot fail to have what you give.'
