Barnes Evangelistic Ministries

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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.