--BISHOP KEN.
LIGHT.--We should render thanks to God for having produced this
temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world,
spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth,
and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold His works.--CAUSSIN.
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first-born.--MILTON.
Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that
are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light
of day.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.
I am the light of the world.--JOHN 9:5.
No wonder that light is so frequently used by the sacred oracles as
the symbol of our best blessings. Of the Gospel revelation one apostle
says, "The night is far spent, and the day is at hand." Another, under
the impression of the same auspicious event, thus applied the language
of ancient prophecy: "The people who sat in darkness have seen a great
light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light
is sprung up."--BASELEY.
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,--the sun,
and the student's lamp.--BOVEE.
LOVE.--Love is the purification of the heart from self; it strengthens
and ennobles the character, gives higher motives and a nobler aim to
every action of life, and makes both man and woman strong, noble, and
courageous.--MISS JEWSBURY.
We never can willingly offend where we sincerely love.--ROWLAND HILL.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less
difficult to know it has begun.
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