stroke
shall be repaid. The longer the payment
is withholden, the better for you; for
compound interest on compound interest
is the rate and usage of this exchequer."
I read that over and over and learned
it and repeated it and thought it and
believed it. Then I learned by heart what
Jesus says: "Give, and it shall be given
unto you." And I repeated that, and repeated
it, and believed it, and stuck to my giving--giving
everything I had to the thing I was called
upon to do.
I am not setting myself up as a model for you. I am simply telling you about a method that did for me what you want done for you. It is like repeating to you a recipe for bread that I once found made good bread, and telling you that it will make good bread for you also if you will follow it exactly. This was my experience when I began to give service: Presently things began to come to me in unexpected ways from sources that to all appearances were entirely unconnected with the work I was doing, and I began to get fulfillment of my heart's desires. I cannot detail all the things that happened to me; but I can tell you this: I found that the way out of an individual trouble is exactly what Jesus says it is. Why not follow it just as carefully as you would follow a bread recipe? that is, put in all the ingredients in full measure. For "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you." Just let go of worry, and believe that the law is going to work. It is; because when people are really willing to do all they
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