...and luxury, and in expenses for amusement or vice, and the consequence is poverty and want. " There is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty ;" Prov. xi. 24. The divine blessing rests upon the liberal ; and while every person should make a...

...lost heavily." The observation was startling, and could be explained only by Prov. xi. 24 : " There is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." All we look upon as our possessions is included in the words, "Ye are not your own, ... ye are bought...

...yet, remember that you cannot from this day accumulate one shilling too much :—and yet you may; " There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and...withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." " Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase; so shall thy...

...TVTiat a beautiful illustration is the last remark of the language of Scripture! " There is that giveth and yet increaseth, and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." Speaking of the spiritual improvement of the people of Kidderminster, under him, he says:— " Before...

...the Baptist churches able to do this? Would it not be a blessing to (lie churches to do it ? " There is that withholdeth more than is meet and it tendeth to poverty." Hus not the church, and even each individual church, ever been blessed in proportion to her efforts...

...It exactly accords with the inspired word : " There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth : there is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." Feeble piety produces feeble action, and there is no generous effusion of feeling in the alleviation...

...of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." " There is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." It is impossible to say how much more prosperous this world might have been, if men had expended their...

...haughtily declared he would give ' nothing,' was so reduced as to be supported by the two brothers ! ' There is that scattereth and yet increaseth, and there...more than is meet, and — it tendeth to poverty.' The above anecdote is a striking illustration of these words of Solomon. Men of property should contribute...

...directed efforts to spread sound knowledge among a people. " There is that giveth and yet encreaseth, 'and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." So we have actually found it, and so it will be found still more, as the channels are more freely opened...

...exclude each other. Just as mastery means service, possession, in the highest sense, means impartation. " There is that scattereth and yet increaseth, and there...withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." Some one once said, " What I kept I lost ; what I gave away I have." You do not truly possess without...