Editors' Table: Walk in the Light

Editors' Table

Walk in the Light

"He that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."

Hence, when we know what is right, when we are in the midst of the light, it is a duty to walk in that light as the Savior did, that we may have fellowship with each other and fellowship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, so that his blood may cleanse us from all sin. Prayer, as we have learned, is a duty imposed upon all. It is more than a duty; it is a pleasurable way to God, through his Son Jesus Christ. The hearts of all should be softened to pray to God. Prayer is a requirement of the great gospel of life and salvation. Spiritual salvation? Not only spiritual but temporal. There is joy and satisfaction to the con- trite heart and the humble soul who invokes the blessings of the living God. It is a joy which surpasses the comforts and joys of temporal things. It creates a something in one's soul that lifts up, makes better, comforts and softens the heart. It gives con- viction of the truth, and creates in men a desire to walk in the light and in the truth t and to shun the very appearance of sin. These are some of the spiritual blessings that come through prayer. Temporal blessings will not produce these feelings. Men, on the contrary, are sometimes so absorbed in the temporal blessings of life that they forget the Giver of these spiritual gifts.

Let us bear in mind that the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof. There is nothing in and of the earth which he has not created, nothing that he has not made and ordained, nothing that is not his by right divine. We are permitted to use the materials of the earth, which he has given us, freely for this purpose, but we are to be wise in the use of them and not covetous. We are not to grasp at more than will be for our good, thus hindering others from receiving their share of the benefits of God's provi- dence and love. The Lord gives us all that we need in this life, and confers these blessings upon us that we may share them with the good and with those who are not good, with the just and with the unjust. He allows his sun to shine upon the good and upon the evil, and sends his rains upon the just and the unjust. He rewards the labor of men according to their industry and persever- ance, and fidelity in their labor. The Lord bestows upon us great temporal blessings, comfortable homes, food, raiment, lands, cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, automobiles, railroads and steamships,