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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE I With some people the act of giving 'is like a surgical operation. It is accompanied ac-companied with pain ften a seda-Itlve seda-Itlve must be administered hut if skil!-full skil!-full and thoroughh done the patient I recovers, and is usually in a better of moral and noclal health for going under the knife, If. Is funny about giving. Usually l the more one does it, the better he I likes it It gets to be a habit, a kind of holy one. . He gets his fun not out of his gains, but out of his gifts, and is prepared to underwrite what the ?aior said when He said: It is more blessed to give than to receive." I This conviction comes not as tho result re-sult of a mental oroccss, but through , life-action. It must be experienced to be discovered To tell a money-grabber thnt plvlng a Jo -producer is to make him cynical. But to get him to hr the thing out Is to make him j happy. It is not strange that giving should ha ve the reaction of Joy, because It is life functioning In harmony with a universal law. Evervthlng lives to five. The sun-shim, the flowers, the soli, even God, comes into our world j not to be ministered unto, but to , minister." H And so the more one gives the more he lives. Life Is liko the spring I yonder by the roadside It has been giving since the first crystal rill split I i the rock and gleamed In the sunlight. , It has been giving drink to everything that has gone by men and cattle and the soil all along ita green banks hava bcn watered Klch and poor, men and women, old folks and little children, chil-dren, white and black, have dipped I from the spring and slaked their I j thirst. Not once has the wayside H spring declined to give It keeps nothing noth-ing for Itself, but it never runs dr,. Water purifies itself by circulation. So does money So does life We iivs H I to give Who gives not Is not living," |