Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-06-01
SATURDAY MIGHT
SERMONS
BY, .@M7NZZ
REySAMUELW. pUPvIS.D.D.
TIRE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.


THE LIGHT or THE WORLD.
Text. 81 am the light OF the world
John viii. ~
Light OF the world Light Dying
cry OF Goethe, great German philoso-
pher and poet. was: More light More
light" That's the cry OF the world
today. More light Is the need of
every mission field. moral reform.
church. hearth and home. Light means
growing grain. robust health, rompIng
children. rustIing harvest. whlstlIng
factories Light builds cities. churches.
schools and colleges. Darkness gives
birth 10 rcbcllious. plncks out the stars
aud leaves the world to grope In de-
spair Darkness means ignorance. ruin,
sin and death. For 1900 years the
world groaned and stumbled on In
darkness until upon n night there
hung In the eastern sky star. not of
first or seventh. but OF Unreasonable
magnitude. II you would know It's
name you would write. not Arcturus
nor Sirius nor polar star, but the Star
OF Bethlehem. Light terrestrial! Light
CELESTIAL Light OF the world. Not
light OF nature. for they have that
In China. India. Korea. but II brings
no light TO their darkened hearts. II
hangs no star In the sky OF their
eternity. Il flashes no ray through
the gloom of their lives. Light of ma.
ture has brought Juggernaut TO crush.
Gauges TO drown. swords to Stay.
funeral pyres to burn. From Green
land TO FIJI the light of nature has left
men to wallow In slime and degrade.
ton.
First Iaw-Refleetion
Let us step into Gods laboratory TO
study the light of the world. The first
law of light Is reflection. Light strikes
opaque body. Part is absorbed. part
reflected Reflection, Lighthouse. sin
gle lamp. myriad glass prism refiectors.
catch one light. multiply It. magnify 1t.
scatter II out into the darkness. until
It IS 200 lamps. Pulpit refectors. ser
mon reflectors. catching light, multiply
ing. scattering into dark places. Saul
of Tarsus, swift OF stecd. bloody Of
sword. official papers in pocket TO Stay
Christians In Damascus. But the light
strikes him. dazcs him. surcharges him.
until IL reflects from his face and lips
and life. Phlipplan TALLER strikes
light and Is struck by a greater one.
what shall | do to be savedT u
,,.,t.as .to foaa 40 Nfnsaa on tho mount
and of the Nazarcne on the hill OF
TRANSPORTATION. Reflected light. DO
you see IT. Strikes Richard Baxter.
curslng iniidel: John Bunyan. bias
phemlng tinker: Jerry MacAuley. a
New York river thief; John i. Cough. a
hopeless drunkard. They become flam-
Ing cvangels. lighting ten thousand
back 10 Gods sunlight. Science OF re-
Election Is called "catoptrics." Beauti-
full science. heaven born. Christ In.
spircd. God given. Catch the secret of
the Kaleidoscope Common bits of col
ored glass. cheap mirrors. but catches
and reflects light gloriously. Take your
ordinary. common. humdum affairs OF
each days life and let Christ transform
them INTO things OF light and beauty.
Second Law-Refraetion.
When light passes from one medium
to another 1t changes its direction. Re
fraction is change OF direction. a few
years ago in little community In Ohio
was man who was the leading sports.
man and frecthinker In his town. lie
Is now the leading pastor In the lead
ing church in the leading town OF that
state, whose name is well known TO
you. How do you account for IT. The
law OF refraction that changes dire
ton. The light struck him. then
changed his direction from poolroom TO
church. from gambling den to altar
One sunday morning IN 1915 John
Stewart. a worthless negro at Mariei-
tn, o.. was going to Ohio river 10 com
NIT suicide. passed tent where Mar
Gus Lindsay was preaching on the
Light of the World" The light struck
this snegro. changed his direction
When lie came out of the tent he went
not south. but north: not 10 suicide. but
as one Of the first negro missionaries
OF my denomination. What multitude
OF men once passing down through
darkness TO death. struck 10y this light
are now passing upward through light
10 life, The four principles OF light
are illumination. heat. actinism-the
fructifying principle-and therapy. the
curative prInciple-lIght and life. heat
and health.
Follow the Gleanl
Christ Is the light that llghtcth every
man that cometh into the world Who
so followeih that light shall be saved