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.
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.
How
prone we are to justify ourselves behind the acceded limitations of time and sense! Many of the sweet amenities of living, gentle courtesies, yes, even Christian obligations, are crowded out by the self-justifying, self-satisfying assurance that they would be done, and gladly done, but for lack of time.
Fortunately
for mankind, religious intolerance, which has been the cause of more bitter quarrels, more shedding of blood, more suffering than all else in the history of the world, is on the wane, and the rights of each person to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience is more clearly recognized.
Our
appreciation of the common kindnesses of neighbors and friends impels us to make due and loving acknowledgment and a return of kindred favors when opportunity offers, but gratitude for higher and nobler gifts.
Our
faithful laborers in the field of Science have been told, through the alert editor-in-chief of the Christian Science Sentinel and Journal, that "Mrs.
The
greatest wisdom is shown in foreseeing and forestalling evil, and thus avoiding threatened dangers; but the consciousness that does this is entirely distinct from the mental condition which is forever fearful for the future, forever crossing bridges that have not been built.
