A GENTLEMAN gave a boy a gold dollar. “Now you must keep that,” he said. “Oh, no,” he replied, “I shall halve it first. Maybe I shall keep my half.”
“Your half,” said the gentleman: “why, it is all yours.”
“No,” answered the child, with a shake of the head, “it is not all mine, I always go halves with God. Half I shall keep and half I shall give to Him.”
“But,” said the man, “God owns the world; He does not want your gift, the silver and the gold and the cattle upon a thousand hills are His.”
“It seems to me that God halves with us, and oughtn’t we to give Him back His part?” said the little boy.
And, yes, dear reader, the Lord Jesus gave up ALL that He had in order to make us His own.
ML 10/19/1902