Evening journal., 1912-03-30
"THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD"
Quarterly Review-March 81.

"The people which sat in darkness saw
great light; and 10 them which sat I'm
the region and shadow of death light
is sprung up."-Matthew iy. l6.
In the Bible symbols light stands as
the representative of God, of Christ OF
the Church. of Truth, which by and
by as "the Sun of Righteousness shall
arise with healing in its beams for
the cure of all the masses OF the earth.
! IL will scatter the darkness of sin,
ignorance and superstitlon-the works
of the Prince OF Darkness, who will
then "be bound for a thousand years
that he may deceive the nations no
more until the thousand years are
finished" OF the heavenly Father we
read, God is light, and in Him is no
darkness at ALL"
OF Jesus we read, Il am the light of
| the world" OF the Church i'm her
present condition we read, Let your
| light so shine before men that they
may sec your good works and glorify
your Father which is IN heaven"
Hide not your light under a bushel,
but set it on a candlestick that It may
give light unto all that are i'm the
/ house" Nevertheless, "The darkness
I hateth the light. neither cometh to the
! light and the whole world lieth in
the Wicked One"-in darkness. Not
withstanding the faithfulness of Jesus
and the few light-bearers enlightened
with the Holy Spirit Of which they are
! begotten, still darkness covers the
earth and gross darkness the heather" "
"Thy Word Is a Lamp TO My Feet"
This same thought pervades the
! Scriptures from first TO last, namely
| that for six thousand years from the
time of the entrance of sin to the
second coming of Jesus, the world
will be subject 10 a reign of sin and
death-it will be under a pail of dark
ness, ignorance, superstition, sin. The
only ones who will see the path of
righteousness distinctly will be those
guided by the "lantern"-God's Word,
They are represented as saying, "Thy
Word is a lamp to my feet and a
i lantern to my footsteps" st. Peter
writing TO the Church from the same
lstandpoint, declares, I'VE (the church,
have a more sure Word Of prophec,
whereunto ye do we'll that We take
i heed, as unto a light that shineth ia
a dark place until the day dawn" (Psa
exix. 1O5: II Peter T. 199
The Prince OF Darkness has been in
/ command for centuries The lights OF
the past were the noble Prophets o
the Jewish line whose lights affected
few in their own nation, and we're not
discernible at all amongst the heather
world. John the Baptist, we are told
was a burning and shining light, and
Jesus was a still more brilliant light;
and His faithful few during the past
eighteen centuries have shined forth
rejecting their Masters light But
all of these have had comparatively
little influence I'm the world. II still
lies i'm the Wicked One-in darkness,
seeing not, neither understanding
Divine things.
A Better Day Coming.
our text tells of a better day sure
to come. Il is not sure TO come be-
cause of the operation of the evolu-
tionary law. for the natural law would
seem to contradict such a thought
4 Darkness leads on to darkness more
intense; and while light begets dark
ness; and the masses are il the dark.
ness, and in the Wicked One, the
Prince of Darkness. Never, then
might we hope for the astonishmeni
, OF darkness except I'm the way n
which God has foretold it-througt
the establishment of Messiahs King
dom-through the shining forth o
= the sun of Righteousness-th,
E Church "a g,ory.-Matt. xiii, AZ.
Our text is a quotation from tn,
Old Testament; il had beginning o
y its fulhlment in our Saviour and II
?, the Apostles. The people of Palestine
d long In doubt, uncertainty, etc. say
a great light In Jesus and His teach
ID ings. And throughout this Gospe
Age, for more than eighteen centuries