Editorials

Whoever takes the time to look through the pages of current religious literature will be impressed with the warring incongruities, the turmoil and tussle of the world's expressed convictions.
True gratitude expresses itself in higher living.
We are informed that some of the smaller churches, when electing new Readers, have been impressed with a lack of available material within their own ranks, and have felt compelled to draw upon other fields, a condition that should not exist after three years of active public work.
There shall be a Building Committee which shall consist of not less than three members of this Church in good standing, elected by a majority vote of the Christian Science Board of Directors and with the approval of the Pastor Emeritus.
IN our Master's wonderful object-lesson, which for nineteen centuries has been directing men back to the simplicity of childhood if they would find the gateway to heaven, the child has, by common interpretation, come to mean the consciousness of innocence, purity, and obedience.
The service of Mammon brings such large returns that it may come to seem contributory to the service of God.
CHRISTMAS comes again to remind us that it is the world's giving time.
THROUGH the courtesy of a friend we are able to give the following information regarding a case recently tried in Los Angeles, Cal.
IN counselling the Colossians Paul said, "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man,"—and the injunction is certainly very wise and pertinent.
WE are compelled to ask our readers and contributors to be satisfied with this acknowledgment of the reports of the Thanksgiving Day services in the branch churches, and to accept the statement that we would gladly publish all the reports if space permitted.
THE words we listen to, how much less important are they than the words we speak?
When Jesus said, "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you," he gave unqualified assurance of the possible results of that "little faith" which is spiritual understanding,—the God with us who is "able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.