Gratitude
has long been considered a passive virtue, and one that, as expressed among mortals, often presupposes superiority in the recipient and inferiority in the giver.
The right note was struck in the editorial of a recent issue, entitled "The Glad Smile," and it will doubtless have the effect of spreading the contagion of cheerfulness broadcast in our city.
A sermon on "Jesus, the Teacher and Healer," recently published, contained many points of excellence, especially the contention that man's reasoning did not take the place of inspiration and revelation of God.
Sitting
in a Christian Science service one Sunday morning, the writer heard the words, "uncontaminated and unfettered by human hypotheses," read from The Christian Science Quarterly.
When
, after the temptation in the wilderness, Jesus returned to Nazareth, and, upon going into the synagogue to read, claimed that the words of the prophet Esaias were that day fulfilled in him, it aroused the wrath of those who heard, that he should claim with so great confidence such mighty things for himself.
