Turning Toward the Sun

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 19, 1885

Turning Toward the Sun

Why is it that, although the sun is nearer to the earth during our northern winters than he is during our summers, our winters are so piercingly cold? Not because the sun is colder, but because the earth has turned away our northern lands from the face of the sun, so that all through the winter the sun rises but low in our heavens, and his rays slant feebly through our atmosphere. What avails it that the Sun of Righteousness is near to every one of us and shines on undimmed, if we have turned away our faces from Him?