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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 15, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 37.

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Light and Gladness

By G. B. STARR

G. B. STARR
THESE two most beautiful and suggestive words represent joyful, glad experiences, that belong to every child of God. Light and gladness are theirs by right of inheritance; for “light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.” Ps. 97: 11. We are not the children of darkness and gloom, nor are we of the night; but we are the children of the day and of the light.
“God is light, and in him is no darkness at all,” and those who live near him, and walk close by his side, do not walk in darkness and uncertainty. “Light is sown for the righteous” to reap, and we should daily gather our souls full of it to carry to all about us.
It is the duty and privilege of every child of God to be filled with gladness also. “Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.” Ps. 32: 11. “Thou hast put gladness in my heart” (Ps. 4: 7), “that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.”
Our blessed Leader has been anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows, so that he is the gladdest One in all the glad procession. Heb. 1: 9. He is leading the righteous over a pathway of gladness and light, that is to grow lighter and lighter until it ends in the light and gladness of eternal day. But now, just now, God wants his children to glorify him, being glad and rejoicing all their days. Ps. 90: 14. The heavenward, homeward journey is a happy, joyous road.
“And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”
Melrose, Mass.