Barnes Evangelistic Ministries
Illustrations, Quips and Notes
Nothing Lost
During the summer a clergyman called on a lady who had a very fine
collection of roses. She took him out to see them- white roses, red
roses,yellow roses, climbing roses, and roses in pots, and the modest moss
rose-every species he hadever heard of, and a great manyhe haad never heard
of, were therein rich profusion. The lady began plucking, right and left.
Some busheswith but a single flower she despoiled. The clergyman
remonstrated. "You are robbing yourself, dear madam." "Ah, she said, "do you
not know that the way to make the rosebush is to pluck its flowers freely? I
lose nothing by what I give away." This is a universal law. We never lose
anything by what we give away.