p. 138 | God Is Light

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1887

God Is Light

God is light, God is righteous, God is love. There is in all nature no more expressive symbol than light. Think what light is; where it goes; what it does; what the world would be without it; how it makes visible what would otherwise be to us as if it did not exist; how it shows us the way, and makes the orderly activities of life possible; besides, all its subtle power in awakening life and producing the growth of life; and its exclusiveness, having "no fellowship with darkness." It is thus the fittest possible symbol, and that in a single word, of the divine intelligence, holiness, gentleness, purity, perfect moral goodness, blessedness and power to surround and pervade and fill others with its own blessedness and glory. The sun may have its spots, but in God is "no darkness at all," no ignorance, no evil, no error, no weakness, no decay; "no speck in that perfect orb."—Selected.