It has been well said that "curses come home to roost." Yea; so do blessings. Every ray of sunshine we send forth into the world comes back to light up our own hearts. That bitter, fault-finding, censorious, judging spirit has its intensest effect on him who has it. It mars his happiness, it embitters his life, it destroys his power. Worse still, he will begin to think of God as being that way, for we cannot avoid measuring him by ourselves. Thus we grow hopeless and are driven away into the darkness of despair. For "he that loveth not knoweth not God." But love increased a hundredfold comes back to him that has abandoned self in the love of God and man.

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