The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-01-01

that are waiting to
become nights SEN
AkHN6NAlI tinels. The labor
er's tasks are
$1,000 done and from fiel3
and toll weary steps
are turned toward home. The after
glow has famed from horizon to re-
NTH and back to horizon again and
the world SO recently alive with light
fades into the time of reverie and
rest. And yet at eventide 1t shall be
light. The prophet Is somehow kin
to the Scotch minstrel whose song
Of the "Cotter's Saturday Night" best
lends meaning to the prophetic word.
For the evening light is surely not
the sunlight. nor Is 1t yet the moon
light; but 1t is candle light that cheers
the hour that would else be filled with
the deepening gloom of dusk and
dark. Not until most recent years
could the twilight hour be filled with
any other light than that of the primi-
tive candle. whose pleasant rays,
though soft and feeble. sufficed to set
ablaze that great light which makes
clear and plain life's pathway. For
In the light of the candle our fathers
read the Book from which the true
light shines. Robert Burns has
caught the spirit of the prophetic
truth as he says:
The cheerful supper done. with serious
face
They round the ingle form a circle
wide:
The sire turns DER with patriarchai grace
The precious Bible. once his fathers
pride.
Then kneeling down. to Heavens Eternal
| King
The saint. the father. and the husband
| prays
however, to Scotland, but they have
been characteristic Of the homes Of
Christian folk of every kindred and
tribe and tongue since that long ago
Easter dawn which heralded the risen
Lord. When shadows have been deep
ening the faith of Christian hearts
has been as the light Of candle to
set ablaze the beacon light of endless
day. And herein Is evidenced the true
worth of our religion, for 1t alone
among all the religions the world has
known gives light at eventide.
False and True Lights.
All men have not always thought
so. and when the pages of history are
consulted scenes are witnessed that
portray the efforts men have made to
tighten the shadows of life's waning
day. Here Is banquet hall in Rome
flooded with the myriad lights OF
lamps and brilliant with the scintil
lating gems that bedeck the gorgeous
ly appareled personages of that impe
rial city of the Caesars. The delica
cies of the market and the choicest
vintages of the years are placed be
fore the favored guests. The extreme
of indulgence is permitted in the sen
sual pursuit Of pleasure and the
sounds of revelry arise while fast and
furious grows the spirit of misrule.
Beneath that hall different com
pany gathers. They have no blazing
lights nor flashing gems. No costly
food nor vintages. The room in which
they meet Is bare Of luxury and fal
from the light Of day. and such light
as is provided serves to accentuatt
the shadows of the catacombs into
which the little company has cautious
ly found its way. AS eyes grow &C
customed to the place a table Is seer
and on It there is cup of native
wine. and some bread which Is being
broken as one says. This do in re
\ wa hro ~ n,,k vuk1 L. ~
true light shining? In the hall of the
Caesars or in the catacombs?
The shadows are gathering rapidly
and Rome's day Is nearly done. Eat
drink and be merry" is the Romans
motto. and soon the day will end In
night. The shadows are gathering
fast and faster and the Christian
hearts in Rome might well be strick
en- with despair as prosecutions and
martyrdoms become their lot. But the
faith of Christian hearts is the candle
shining In the gloom and from It,
little flame the great light of eterna
truth is set ablaze.
The Light That Jesus Casts.
And 1t is all happening because Je
sus had light for the shadows. His
faith in God was the candle that a,
his eventide enabled him to read Gods
message and to interpret It for al
mankind. The message which he read
in his soul was the principle of the
resurrection. He himself was the res
direction. Such he was to Martha
The woman that she became, filled
with loyalty to her Lord. she became
because he had Influenced her life
The man that Saul of Tarsus became
when az the apostle to the Gentiles
he urged men to become Christians
he became because Christ had brough,
him to life and to the light Of immor
tally. The church that was constitut
Cd By men who had been cowardi
when they ned from the disaster d
his death. was possible because h
had made these same men coursgeoul
~ his resurrection. Always whom h<
has touched human hearts it has ben
| % make them grow humane; when n
ne touched human laws ho hoo med
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