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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 26, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 46.

EDITORIAL

By Editor

Let Us Give Thanks

EVERY day of the Christian should be a day of thanksgiving. It is an inspired exhortation, "In everything give thanks," and the encouraging assurance, "for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." 1 Thess. 5:18. That is, it is God's will that we shall give thanks, not at stated times, or when prosperity's tree is loaded with benefits above our head; but "giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." Eph. 5:20. We may safely do this, for the God of infinite love will gather up the all things of good or ill, of temporary blessing or bane, and make for His thankful, trusting child a composite of eternal good.

"Let us give thanks" "at all times." To do this we must be Christians. Our faith must bring Christ Jesus to our souls a present help. It must bridge the empty coal bin and flour box, hide the worn shoes and ragged clothes, shut out the hatred and malice and envy and wrong of this old world, tunnel the dark grave, and vision God's great beyond of eternal right and might, of eternal justice and mercy, of eternal peace and glory.

Americans in general have cause to be grateful, and together, as invited by President Taft, let them give thanks. He that "offereth praise glorifieth Me," says our heavenly Father.