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NO
NIGHT
IN
HEAVEN.
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world,,there
is
no
dark
hour;
there
is
nothing
that
can
en,
courage
such
mischievous
designs; nor are
any
of
the sons
of
violence,
or the
malicious powers
of darkness
suffer-
ed
to
have
an
abode or refuge
in
that
country.o
sur-
:prize
nor
fear belongs
to
the
inhabitants of
those regions.
Happy
souls, who
spend
all
their
life in
the light
of
the
countenance
of God,
-and are for ever secure from the
plots and mischievous
devices
of
the
.wicked!
While
we
dwell here
below
amongst
the
changing sea-
sons
of
light and darkness what daily care
is
taken
to
shut the
doors
of
our. dwellings
against
the
Alen
of
mis-
chief? 'What solicitude
in
a time
of
war
to
.keep
the
gates of
our
towns
and
cities,well
secured against
all
in-
vasion
of
enemies
?
("attic
iii.
b:
" Every
man with
.his
sword
,upon
his.
thigh, because
of fear
in
the night."
But, in
that
blessed
world,
there
is
no
need
of
such
de-
fences.; no,s.uch
guardian
cares to secure the
inhabitants.
"
The
gates
of
that
city shall
not
he
shut
by
day,
and
there
is
no
night
there.
There
shines
perpetual
day light,
and
the gates
are ever open'to..receive
new-comers
,from
our
world, or for the conveyance
Of,
orders
and messages
to
and
fro from
the throne,
through
all
the
dominions.
of
:God, and of
the Lamb. Blessed
are the inhabitants
of
that
country,
where.
there are
no
dangers arising
from any
of
the
wicked powers
of
darkness, nor any
dai
k
minute
to
favour
their
plots
of
mischief.
6.
"
The
time
of
night and darkness
is
the time
of the
concealment
of
secret
sins."
Shameful iniquities
are then
.
practised
amongst
men;
because the darkness
is
a cover
to
thern.
"
The
eye
of
the
adulterer'
watches for
the
twilight,
saying,
no
eye
shall
see
me,"
Job
xxiv.
15.
"
In
the black
and dark night
he
hopes for concealment as
Well
as
the
thief and
the
murderer,
and, they
that are
drunken, are drunken
in the night,"
1
Mess.
v.
7.
The
hours
of
darkness
are
.a
temptation
to these
iniquities,
and
the shadows
of
the
evening are
a
veil;
to
cover
them
from the sight
Of
men: They
find
a
screen
behind
the
curtains of
the night, and a refuge
in
thick darkness.
But, in
the
heavenly
,world,
there
is .no
temptation
to such iniquities,
no
defilement can gain
an
entrance
there, nor could
it
find
any
veil
qr covering.
The
're-
gions
of
light,
and peace, and
holy love,
are never vio-
lated
with
such scenes
of
villainy
and guilt.
No
secret
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