The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
"The True Light.

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 Thy Word Is lamp unto my feet, I05.
 Our first thought in time of anxiety or doubt or danger is to get a light. What seems awful in the darkness does not terrify use in the light. The light brings peace and comfort.
 on our juorney from this world to the next there are many paths spread around us. but only one true road: need true. steady light to guide us aright. The world offers many. diff ferent kinds of light; but to follow them ends only in darkness and de- lasting. and David tells us where to
 "Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet" the Lord Jesus Christs the Word of God. "1n the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" Jesus is the true cometh into the world. and that light shines still through the peges of the w We snsil never find the path to all of us is an uphill journey. There is only one safe. path; all others end in destruction. God Ted Israel forth by
 hs sty Tsat tU aws wsy that thSy % night s not 6o the same for us? In Gods Word we find the way we must take if we are to journey towards the heavenly city. light of warning. Perhaps we, are thoughtless. and taken up with our work or play. There is peril all around and the company we keep. Then Gods Word flashes danger signal a warn ing. guiding light-"Escape for thy life life" Q fellow traveller. beware! If course before 1t Is too late.
 This light may be also a light of comfort: The suffering invalid, in the Gods Word is the best light for these Is the promise: T will never leave thee Let not your heart be troubled. neither lot 1t be afraid" Do we suffer? My grace is sufficient for thee." My Hand shall uphold thee"
 With God the darkness is no dark ness at all; the day and the night are both alike. All have dark times of sorrow, of perplexity, of doubt. Some times we cannot see our way. nor Then 1t is that we turn to God and His Word comforts and instructs us. In the dark hour of sorrow this pillar perplexity the steady light shines, and we can see the narrow. the painful. but the sure path of duty. Be this, then, our prayer: o send out Thy light and Thy truth. that they may lead me and bring me to thy holy hill" Try to look at life in the light of Gods Word; see what 1t really means, It will not be mere selfish work. or play, nor self-gain, nor self-pleasing. nor self-anything. True life means doing our duty. praising God, and helping our heighbor, doing good. making the world better, purer. sweet CT. That is what life is meant to be- The whole duty of man lies in one word love. We must love God and love our neighbor. We must praise God. and work hard in any place that God sends us. Wherever that place may be. there our duty lies and there we can best serve Him.
 "Thy Word Is a lamp unto my feet" It will guide thee. then. to a home of pardon and peace. We may have wan dered far off in the wilderness, but in spite of that our Fathers house stands open and ready to welcome us. He gives us a light to show us the way. Some may have gone astray for long years, but the light is still burn ing to lead us home
 Do you know the way? Jesus says: T am the way. and I am the light" What are the words on which that light shines nes?-"Though your sins were az scarlet. they shall be white as snow" and Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out"