Have we learned that lesson even to-day; a lesson which the Master emphasized when He sat and watched the people of His own time—the direct descendants of these men of Malachi—putting their offerings into the treasury? He did not measure a single gift, intrinsically; but by its cost to the soul who offered it. The rich men gave of their abundance. He saw every gift, recognized its worth, was cognizant of its marketable value, in every case. Presently there came along a woman who was a widow, and
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