Paul
in writing to the Thessalonians says, "The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ," but the marginal note explains the better translation as being, "The Lord direct your hearts.
In
the night men who must follow some path carry all sorts of tapers, torches, candles, lanterns, in whose insufficient light they travel or stumble on their way.
Ever
since Adam and Eve disobeyed God, and sin received the sentence of destruction which must inevitably be meted out to it, men have expected and feared condemnation.
Sometimes
a politician is heard declaring that honor does not exist in these days and appeal must be made not to the fineness of character which should be in men, but merely to the gross selfishness which holds the multitude in darkness, and we are unable to think of such a politician as being a light in that darkness.
