Editorial May 9, 1903 Issue

Presumption and Reward

We must take care of presumption when we measure God's plans by our theories.—GEO. MACDONALD.

THE story of the mother's astonishing request of Jesus, that her two sons might occupy the highest seats of honor in his kingdom, illustrates the fact that error's counterfeits embrace very much more than the seeming things that are comprised in our sense of the material world. It assumes the semblance of unnumbered impulses and activities of Good, and the detection of these more subtle errors calls for a thoughtfulness and refinement of discrimination which was quite foreign to the consciousness of this good woman.

The true man is unrestrained in his expectation, and unreserved in his appropriation of good. The utmost fulness of privilege and richness of supply are his in the promises of Love, and he freely and legitimately claims his glorious inheritance in his Father's name, "Now are we the sons of God."

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