Editorials

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.
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.
Divine Love is omni-active, and human love, its reflection, expresses itself in action.
No question of the efficacy of Christian Science in cases of infectious and contagious diseases is involved in Mrs.