Light! Light! by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 25, 1880

Light! Light!

By Editor

LIGHT! LIGHT!—Neither plants, nor animals, nor men can exist and enjoy health without an ample supply of light. Witness the vine that grows in your cellar; note the animal brought from the jungle and put in close confinement; witness the prisoner in his dungeon cell, the debased dwellers in your city cellars, and more especially the halt and crippled crowds of the Vaudois valleys who live under the dark shadows of the Alps and Apennines. Let in the light, if you would have pure air, good cheer, and a vigorous flow of the life-blood. Shame on our city churches that shut out the light of Heaven. It would seem that closed shutters and a gloom of dense darkness had become a very fashionable concomitant of a city church. Why this? Do they love darkness? Do preachers in their pulpits love darkness? and the people love it to? For our part we prefer the light of day, blazoned upon an audience when we preach to it.