Speaking of newspapers, a certain writer said recently: "The distinction between a good paper and the 'yellow' kind is not that the one always contains the truth and the other does not, for both may print false reports. But the line runs between those papers that try to tell the truth and those who make no special effort; and between those who care if they have failed to be correct and those who print anything that sounds well and do not care whether or not they misrepresent facts; and between those who are quick and glad to make a correction and those who have to be forced to do so with the strongest compulsion." And the distinction between good and bad men, in like manner, is not that the one never sins, while the other does; but that the one "stumbles and rises again, while the other lies down and wallows;" the one sins and does not care, the other does care and confesses and repents. "Does not God see everything?" asked a very little boy of my acquaintance, when he had been scolded for being naughty. "Yes," said his mother. "He sees, then, that I want to be good, doesn't he?" And the mother could not deny it. Yes, God sees we want to be good, and it is a long step toward him to even believe this and to long for the better things. But we cannot stop at that, for intentions are not yet conquests. Nor do we need to stop there. We have the help of Him on our side who is able to fulfill our every desire of goodness and work of faith with power. (2 Thess. 1:11.) [15]

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