In these days when business schemes, so unjust, so unholy, are being practiced, when lying and cheating are so common, it means something to “do that which is honest” in all our relations with the world. Again, we are told to “provide things honest in the sight of all men.” This means that we are to pay for the things we get. “Owe no man anything,” is preceded with, “Render therefore to all their dues,” and followed with the statement, “But to love one another.” Getting into debt sometimes seems unavoidable, but usually it is the result of failing to live within our income. Our supposed wants lead us to go beyond the point where we can reasonably expect to pay. By exercising self-denial we might be comfortable, and save ourselves and others much trouble by not getting involved in debt. We can not do as others do. Let us not forget that we are closely watched by the world. Keep your word. Better not promise, than promise and fail. Can we imagine that Jesus Christ ever promised to make a house, a dining-table, an ox yoke, or anything of the kind in a carpenter’s line of work, and slighted the job? or failed in doing precisely as he agreed to do in every particular? Much care should be exercised in making bargains. A close spirit should be avoided on the one hand, and an extravagant one on the other. “There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.” It is possible for us to “do that which is honest” in the sight of God and all men, and let us not flatter ourselves that we are following Christ if our dealings with others savor in any way of dishonest practices. It is by beholding the pure, unselfish, and upright “works” of the children “of light” that unbelievers are led to glorify the Father which is in heaven. Are these works in sight? Let us get just as many as possible before the people. They are as beacon lights to the wrecks floating by.—The Indicator.