The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-06

: we cannot see why things are as they
are-'we see through a glass dark
| ly." Some timid souls grow fright
ened in this darkness where every
There shall be no night there! We
shall see and understand all Gods
plans and purposes for our lives, and
we shall see that they are all good.
Gods love ard presence will flood
everything, the spectres of fear will
flee away, We shall know as We are
known" we shall see the meanings of
life in that heavenly home where all
is highland this seeing will make
for US a heaven of content.
The night of sin-how it shadows
this lifei Judas went out, land it was
night" the record reads. 1t is always
so when a Judas betrays his Lord
sin brings the night of gloom and
darkness upon this world. How angry
words darken the sunlight of home,
how greed and jealousy and strife
darken the social life But There
sheil be no night there" ''There shall
in no wise enter into the city anything g
that defileth. neither whatsoever
worketh abomination, or maketh a
lie.' There shall be no night of sin
there-that is what is taught us also
in that beautiful symbolic passage
which says that they that are in that
heavenly city walk in white" They
have washed their robes and made
them white in the blood of the lamb. ."
The night of sickness. of suffering,
of bereavment-how it shuts down
about us in this world! But There
shall be no night there" And God
shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes; and there shall be no more
death. neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall be any more pain.
The night of inactivity-that shuts
down upon US inevitably in this world.
Hearts and minds may be eager to
continue work. but darkness comes
and says, Put away your work" and
be no night there''-"His servants
shall serve Him. continually. What
joy activity brings to the healthy
mindI That joy of activity. uninter-
rupted by the night of enforced idle
ness, shall be the Christians in that
land to which we go.
How the absence of loved faces
makes darkness and night for us in
this world. Since my son left home
and went to the city life seems very
dark and lonely" said an aged mother.
But there shall be no parting there,
zone by one we are passing over,
and soon we shall ali be gathered by
the river of life. The light OF Gods
faeef and the light of friends faces
shall be there. There shall be no
night of parting there.
How do I know all these things?
Surely not by my own guessi I know
Inem on NnS testimony OF Ine oIlly
sinless Being who ever entered this
world. I know them on the testimony
of Christ, the Christ who said SOL
emnly as one takes an oath. eff these
things were not so I would have told
you" \
And so bring these teachings of.
Christ today % comfort all our hearts
Let US refuse to think of death as
tragedy. Let US obey Christ and think
of it as coronation. Let US sorrow
not as those who have no hope" Let
US rest back in the arms of the Christ
who has promised that His followers
shall pass through death to a world
where there shall be no night.
On the grave OF the painter, AL
brecht Durer. there is engraved Just
one word, :Emigravit''-''he has emf
grated" Emigrated to the land where
there is no night; and there is moth
ing to fear on the journey to the
promised land A little girl was tax
ing her first railroad journey which
included the crossing OF several rivers
Each time the train approached a
river she clung 10 her mother in a
panic of terror, for IL seemed about
to plunge into the river. But each
time a bridge appeared and over It
they passed in safety. At last in