DISC. NO NIGHT IN HEAVEN. 4 t Remark IV. " Under our darkest nights, our most in- active and. heavy hours, our most uncomfortable seasons hereon earth, let us remember we aie travelling to a world of light and joy." If we happen to lie awake, in mid- night darkness, and count the tedious hours one after another in mournful succession, under any of the'mala- dies of nature, or the sorrows of this life, let us comfort ourselves, that we are not shut up in eternal night and darkness without hope, but we are still making our way towards that country, where there is no night, where there is neither sin, nor pain, malady nor sorrow. What if the blessed God is pleased to try us by the withholding of light fromour eyes for a season ? What if we are called to seek our duty in darkprovidences, or are perplexed in deep and difficult controversies, wherein we cannot find the light of truth? What if we "sit in darkness and mourning, and see no light, and the beams of divine consolation are cut off, let us still trust in the name of the Lord, and stay ourselves upon our God, especially as he manifests himself in the Lamb that was slain, the blessed medium of his mercy," Is. 1. 10. Let us learn to say with the prophet Micah, in the spirit of faith ; Micah vii. 8, 9. " When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light unto me ; he will bring me forth to the light and I shall behold his righteousness." " Blessed be God, that the night of ignorance, grief, or affliction, which attends us in this world, is not ever- lasting night. Heaven and glory are at hand : wait and watch for the morning star, for Jesus, and the resurrec- tion. Roll on apace in your appointed course, ye suns and moons, and all ye twinkling enlighteners of the sky, carry on the changing seasons of light and darkness in this lower world with your utmost speed, till you have finished all my appointed months of continuance here. The light of faith shews me the dawning of that glorious day, which shall finish all mynights anddarknesses for ever. Make. haste, O delightful morning, and delay not myhopes. Let me hasten, let me arrive at that blessed inheritance,, those mansions of paradise, where night is never known, but one eternal day shall tuake our know- ledge, our holiness, and our joyeternal." Amen.
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