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LUX IN TENEBRIS

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 23, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 4.

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LUX IN TENEBRIS.

By Susan Coolidge

Dark falls the night, withheld the day, Weary we fare perplexed and chill, Led by one little guiding ray Shining from centuries far away— Good-will and peace; peace and good-will.
The torch of glory pales and wanes, The lamp of love must know decrease, But still o'er far Judean plains The quenchless star-beam lives and reigns— Peace and good-will; good-will and peace.
And clear to-day as long ago The angel-chorus echoes still, Above the clamor and the throe— Of human passion, human woe— Good-will and peace; peace and good-will.
Through eighteen hundred stormy years The dear notes ring, and will not cease; And past all mists of mortal tears The guiding star rebukes our fears— Peace and good-will; good-will and peace.
Shine, blessed star, the night is black, Shine, and the heavens with radiance fill, While on thy slender, guiding track The angel voices echo back— Good-will and peace; peace and good-will.
—Susan Coolidge, in Independent.