THE ILLUMINATED CLOUD

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 14, 1876

THE ILLUMINATED CLOUD

When Rev. Dr. Scudder, of Brooklyn, was returning from India, he saw, one evening, a dark, unlovely cloud blackening the western horizon and shadowing the sea. As he gazed upon it, the sun sank into the cloud. It at once softened, mellowed, and finally blazed with light. Pierced with ten thousand beams, it poured forth cataracts of liquid splendor that bathed the pavement of the great deep as with a flood of molten gold. That which before cast a sullen shadow, now hung in the heavens transfigured with celestial light. The change was wrought simply by the entrance of the sun. So of Christians it may be said, “Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are light in the Lord.” The indwelling Christ changes that which is by nature dark and unlovely into a glory and a joy. Softened and mellowed by his presence, we are changed from glory to glory till we are finally melted and merged into the brightness and bliss of the heavenly world.—Sel.