The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-11

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Il IL always tho way with light II
will not live IN the same room Win
darkness. II chases It away.
Now the child Of light resembles
light In this very thing. But ! must
| explain to YOU before saying more, that
there IA n worse darkness than the
darkness which flllS the room at night.
II a the darkness OF the Kingdom OF
Darkness, And the Kingdom OF Dark
| ness e tUst the kingdom Of evil men
and women. Bad deeds belong TO this
kingdom, and bad thoughts and WORDS.
These are 1.-THE works OF darkness. you
read about In the Bible. A child o.
light cannot endure these works OF
darkness. The darkness which the chila
OF light chasea away Is the darkness OF
sin. He abhors bad thoughts and
words. He hates the darkness ana SIN
Of them, and tries TO chase tnsm away WY
But only children OF light chill
dren who have the beautiful name-do
this. There are people who love evil
better than good, and darkness better
than light. These people would not
try to put the darkness Of evil away.
The bad black sins Of an evil heart, the
bad black deeds Of an evil life. are
loved by such people. People OF this
kind are called In the Bible, "Children
OF darkness"
Third, there is a third thing in light.
which we find also, in the children OF
God. It brings gladness with It where
ever 1t comes
Light is sweet and pleasant to the
eye. And It makes the place Il comes
to, sweet and pleasant, too. II 1t only
peeps into a corner Il brings smIle
there. You have seen ut the close OF
the day. when the sun was going down,
how sad the earth begins to be. You
cannot help being sad yourselves. All
things grow dark and silent. One
might fancy that the earth was losing
It's voice. Fewer footsteps sound along
the road. The road itself grows black:
Blnckness covers houses, and nils, ana
trees, and everything. You dislike the
darkness. You shut your doors upon It.
You shut your eyes against 1t and go
to sleep.
The Glory Of Light,
But rise up In the morning and look.
Look at the red sun climbing up the
eastern sky, with daylight in his arms.
The whole earth is gladdened. The
swallows fash out from their nests in
the corners of the windows to welcome
the light. The larks spring up from
their nests in the fields to sing their
morning song In the light. All the birds
of the air break out into hymns of
gladness. The cattle are led out to
the pastures. The Bower goes forth
with his seed. The steam-whistle Is
heard calling the men to the mills and
factories, The streets resound with the
noise OF wheels and the tread Of human
feet. These shops and the warehouses
throw of their shutters, and open
their doors, and spread cut their wares
to the light. And town and country
and sea and land, are filled with the
hum and stir Of life. Brightness rests
on everything. So pleasant Is the
light! So much gladness 1t carries with
II wherever 1t goes. So 1t Is with the
children OF light; they bring gladness
wherever they go.
Fourth have now given you three
marks OF the children OF light have
to name one mark more, and 1t Is this,
They do not live for themselves.
Light does not live for itself. The
sun does not shine to give light to It,
self The fire does not burn to warm
itself. They never think about them
selves. Light shines to do good to man.
There are hundreds and thousands ev-
cry morning who bless God for the help
which comes to them with the dawning
light.
Not one morning only. but every
morning since the world began. the
morning light has been coming to the
help OF men. See how 1t has come to
ourselves. Since the day Of our birth,
day after day, 1t has come laden with
good things. And year by year 1t has
brought summer and harvest in Its
BOSOM and laid them down Mt our
doors. 1t has shone upon field and gar
den until the flowers sent up their fra
GRANGE and the berries hung ripe upon
the bushes, and the cars Of corn were
yellow on their stalks, and the apples
and pears brown and juicy on the
trees. And still It continues to come.
And In this very thing, too, chill
dren OF light" resemble the light. They
love to do good to their fellow-men.
They know that there are hearts ana
homes, over all the world, where the
story OF Christ's love has never been
told. And they spend their lives IN
trying to send that story there. In
LUElE OhH lllklE IAANAG SAAGS 49,
ChrIst's love to themselves, and OF the
beautiful name and Of Gods willing
ness TO bestow it upon all. They gather
poor children out OF poor homes and
tench them to read Of Jesus. Or they
pray to God to bless the lObors OF mis-
sIonarles in heather lands. Or they
give money to send missionaries to
these lands. 1t is but q little portion
some children Of light can spare. Per-
haps It is no more than penny No
matter. The penny helps to buy BIZ
BILE, or to send out a missionary, or to
build a church or school.
/ once heard q poor African kattir
woman, whose heart was turned to Je-
sus by the reading Of single tract.
Who can tell but that this tract was
bought with the one penny Of some one
child of light! And II so, across the
broad sea, this ray OF light, this one
little CLEAN in the tract, from the child
Of light here, had shone into the henrt
and hut OF that poor ignorant karlr'
and called her out OF darkness into
Gods marvellous light.
Light VIII Reach All.
Perhaps there are boys hearing my
words who shall grow to be learned
men. And some day they may read the
old story of the statue which was set
up In Egypt once. 1t was the figure OF
an ancient king with a harp IN ms
hand. The story says that whenever
the morning light TOUGHER the harp II
began to sound. do not know wheth-
or it happened Just as 1t Is told or not.
ant this | know, that the earth in
which we live ls like nothing else so
| much as that great stone kinB WIN me
hnrp In his hand The harp Is the
heart Of man. And the light which Is to
nil It's strings with music, Is iight