for recompense on those who have received from us. A gift
with reservations is not a gift; it is a bribe. There is no
promise of increase unless we give freely, let go of the
gift entirely, and recognize the universal scope of the
law. Then the gift has a chance to go out and to come back
multiplied. There is no telling how far the blessing may
travel before it comes back, but it is a beautiful and
encouraging fact that the longer it is in returning, the
more hands it is passing through and the more hearts it is
blessing. All these hands and hearts add something to it in
substance, and it is increased all the more when it does
return.

We must not try to fix the avenues through which our good
is to come. There is no reason for thinking that what you
give will come back through the one to whom you gave it.
All men are one in Christ and form a universal brotherhood.
We must put away any personal claim, such as "I gave to
you, now you give to me," and supplant it with "Inasmuch as
ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least,
ye did it unto me." The law will bring each of us just what
is his own, the reaping of the seeds he has sown. The
return will come, for it cannot escape the law, though it
may quite possibly come through a very different channel
from what we expect. Trying to fix the channel through
which his good must come to him is one of the ways in which
the personal man shuts off his own supply.

The spiritual-minded man does not make selfish use of the
law but gives because he loves to give.