The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-09

The lights of the city are a mile or more
away from our windows, but from north
to south they stretch, flashing and glim-
uering, through the
THE LIGHTS darkness of the
OF THE CITY. night Each night
before the chamber
shades are drawn down and we go 20 rest.
look out on the far city lights from
Church Hill acros the city to the Soldiers
Home. There are the towers OF the City
Hall and the Jefferson, and broken rows
of street lamps and from uucounted
homes the lights shine out. i city al night
is a pathetic sight. Many are asleep IN
their homes, resting from toll; some arc
happy in the social gathering, some are
sick in the hospitals, some are in the cells
of the white prison. Sin there is and It's
Shadows, sorrow. Want and pain and grief
are there. Some tempted, some burdensd.
some weary of life. some hard of heart ant.
slow to believe Jesus looked on the city
and wept over it.
How many in all the city are the chill
dren of God, and so the children OF the
light. How many have uncovered the
faith and obedience of the heart, and are
letting their light shine, In the darkness
of the world. all Christian disciples are
called TO De burning and shining lights"
One eye looks Gown upon the city in Its
nigh. and sees the shining tapers of his
children. He knows where the lights are.
though they are often shaded and hidden
from those around them. They are all
very dear to him, and he feeds them from
the one olive tree with the oil OF the one
Spirit.-Central Presbyterian.
It is quite enough to know the devil as
the head center Of evil; what his ancestry
and origin was, it hardly justifies waste
of time to inquire.
THE ENEMY OF 1t is profitable to
ALL SOULS neither angels nor
men to look into IT.
1t is enough to know him by his works. his
tracks. footsteps and defiling touches.
His name is Devil. That means SLAM
derer. And his first appearance in human
history is as the slanderer OF the Almighty
He charged the Great God with uHtruth;
t.at. in the ear of Mother Eve And our
mother lent her ear to his falsehood- He
told her that no harm would come OF dis
obeyiug the Heavenly Father in small
way; that the end justified the means:
that to be an angel would give her d
great chance OF. usefulness and honor She
believed him, tried to exaIt herself. and
was debased That was all she gained by
disloyaIty and ambition But the devil
accomplished his purpose and degraded
our race And the business OF the dew!
and his followers has ever since been TO
SANDER and degrade
brr1ise the head OF the sLanderer, 20 recon
Gle man to the offended Father: to raise
man 10 his original and native dignity
and honor And The business OF man Is to
believe in his own nature as after the
Divine image; in his soushlp with Coo. 10
respect himself. and use all the means OF
grace necessary to restore and re-eztao-
iish him in the privileges of his creation:
The way. the truth and the NE io3Niss7
the Messiah-the Elder Brother. the sa-
And His office is to exalt the righteous
ness and holiness of God. and make make man
believe in its reality and practicaoiLity,
~. the help of the blessed Spirit
The devil is at his old business, SANDER.
suspicion. distrust. doubts, oiasphemy.
sacrilege. sensuality. the supremacy OF
W OH II all his study. And among man
and womankind all those things are his
rsn;ratiors.-Southern Churchman-