Article October 8, 1904 Issue

Enrichment

F. M. M.

The picture of the poor widow with only a cruse of oil and a handful of meal raises the question, When did God supply the meal, and when did He furnish the oil? Did not the widow first have to make the handful of meal into a little cake and give it to Elijah before the meal was replenished from God's storehouse? Did she not have to trust all to God first and act upon that trust? She did not wait to see the barrel filled before she opened her hand and made the cake, but trustingly she put all the meal she had into that first little cake, and what was the result? If we will but heed this lesson we shall give all we can to—day, and when the to—morrow comes with another demand it will be another "to—day" in which we may again give all. Withholding impoverishes, but true giving enriches.

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