A Gospel Object-lesson.
By Editor
Ye editor lives—sleeps—one and one-half miles from his office. “What a beautiful, glorious world, despite of sin,” he mentally remarked this morning. The full moon was sinking toward the western horizon as he arose at 5 o’clock, and yet in a room that faced the west he had sufficient of the silver radiance, without artificial light, for a morning bath and the necessary toilet preparations of the morning. One hour and a quarter later he mounted his wheel for office bound. What a grand morning it was in the twilight of the moon and the dawn-break of the sun. The receding moon hung low over Mt. Tamalpais. The sea-fog like a black wall shut out the stars, but as it floated past the radiant moon it was dissipated into a gauzy veil that scarce dimmed her brightness. In the orient the dull red of morn was tinting the eastern side of the clouds three-fourths athwart the sky, rapidly changing to gold, and leaving an ever-narrowing dominion to the queen of night. Soon after the day burst, the moon sank from sight, and the light of the sun illumined all the dark places of earth. Thus will be the Lord’s coming. We are now in earth’s night of sin, lighted with the reflected light of the Sun of righteousness, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There is sufficient to prepare for His coming; but before the surpassing glory of the coming eternal day, all the glory and light of this world of sin will vanish, even as the light of the moon before the rising sun. “The night is far spent, and the day is at hand;” “be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer.” Every day has its Gospel object-lessons.