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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 3.

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WISE FLIES.

The Common People.

Women keep their parlors dark to keep out flies. If men and women were as wise as flies, they would keep out of dark rooms too, and have far better health than they now have. The pestilence “walketh in darkness.” Ps. 91:6. There can be no good health without sunshine. A potato vine grown in a cellar, and a woman living in a sunless kitchen, are much alike in color.
Women set their flowerpots in the sunlight, and then seat themselves back in the shade. The flowers bloom, and the women fade. If the women would sit in the sun, and put the flowers back in the shade, they would soon grow radiant, while the flowers would fade and die.
“Sun yourself,” says a writer in the Home. “Sleepless people should court the sun. The very worst soporific is laudanum; the very best is sunshine. Therefore it is plain that poor sleepers should pass as many hours of the day as possible in the sunshine, as few as possible in the shade. Many women are martyrs, and do not know it. They shut the sunshine out of their houses and their hearts; they wear veils, they carry parasols; they do all that is possible to keep off the subtlest, and yet the most potent, influence which is intended to give them strength and beauty and cheerfulness. Is it not time to change all this, to get roses and color in our pale cheeks, strength in our weak souls? Women are pale and delicate. They may be blooming and strong, and the sunlight will be a potent influence in this transformation.”
“The Lord God is a sun.” Ps. 84:11. He would have us “walk in the light, as he is in the light;” for “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” 1 John 1:5, 7. Darkness and sin go together, and end in “outer darkness,” where there is “weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matt. 8:12, etc. The prince of darkness is “the god of this world,”
“Trust for to-day; Thou ownest no to-morrow, That thou shouldst from its store or care or burden borrow. To-day hath in itself thy work, thy joy, thy sorrow; Trust for to-day.”