Lightless Bulbs by T. E. BOWEN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 26, 1914

Lightless Bulbs

By T. E. BOWEN

T. E. BOWEN

STRUNG upon a wire about a large pavilion were numerous electric light bulbs. The current was on, yet several bulbs were lightless. The keeper appeared, and from his high stepladder, screwed up these bulbs a little tighter, and how quickly they, too, became as radiant with light as were the others!

What a lesson to lightless Christians! Attached to the wire with the current of God's power, perhaps only a fractional thousandth of an inch away, and yet as lightless and powerless as if a thousand miles distant.

The remedy: Press up to the current by prayer. Eliminate the little sin that cuts off from God's heavenly current. One little sin will do it as effectually as a sheet of paper in an electric light bulb. “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see.” The letting is our part—always. Prayer alone presses the human light bulb up against the Infinite, and invariably the heavenly current of light and love and power is found to be operative. Like the woman of old, we must touch him, at least the hem of his garment. Prayer removes the obstruction; prayer makes the connection, while God produces the light.