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DISC.
VI1.i
NO
NIGHT
IN
HE.wfiN.
459
the
light
of christianity
is
added
to the
light
of Judaism and
the
light
of
nature;
and
that
the
law
of
Moses
and the
gospel
of
Christ,
are
set
before
us, in
this
nation, in
their
distinct
views,
on
purpose' to make
our
way
to
happiness
more evident and
easy. May,
the
song
of
Moses,
and
the
sting
of
the"
La
be
sung in
our
land
!
But
let
us
never
rest
satisfied till
the
light
that
is
let into
our
minds
become
a
spring" cif
divine
life
within
us,
a
life
of
know
-
ledge,
holiness'
and comfort.
Let
us
not
be
found
amongst
the'number of
those
who
when
"
light
is
come
into
the world,
love
'darkness
rather
than light,"
lest
we
fall under
their condemnation,
John
iii. 19.
Let
us
never
rest
till
we
"see
the
evidences
of
the children
of God
wrought
in us with
power;
till the
"
day
spring
that
has
visited
us
from
on
high,"
!has
entered
into
our
spirits,
and
refined and moulded
them into
the divine
image;
till
we
who
are
by
nature
all
darkness are
made light
itu
the
Lord.
O
what
a
blessed change does
the
converting
grace
of
Christ
make
in
the soul
of
a son or
daughter
of
Adam?
It
is like
the
beauty and pleasure
which
the rising
morn-
ing
diffuse
over the
face
of
the earth,
after a night
of
'storm
and darkness
:
It
is so
much
of
heaven let,
into
all
the-chambers
of
the
soul;
It
is
then only
that
we begin to
know ourselves aright,
and
know
God
in
his
most awful
amd most
lovely
manifestations
:
It
is
in
this light,
we
see
the
hateful
evil
of
every
sin,
the beauty
of
holiness,
the worth
of
the gospel
of
Christ, and
of
his
salvation.
It
is
a light
that
carries
divine heat and
life with
it;
it re-
news
all
the
powers
of
the spirit, and
introduces
holiness,
hope
andjoy,
in
the room
of
folly
and
guilt,
sin,
dark
-
'ness
and
sorrow.
Remark
III.
If
God
has
wrought
this
sacred and divine
change
in
our
souls,
if
we
are made the
children
of
light,
or
if
we
profess
to
have
felt this
change, and hope for
an
interest
in
this
bright inheritance
of
the saints,
"
let
us
put
away all the works
of
darkness,
with
hatred and de-
testation. Let
us
walk
in
the light
of
truth and
holiness,"
Eph.
y.
3.
"Ye
were
once darkness,
but are
now
light
in
the
Lord
;
walk as
children
of
light." And the
apos-
tle
repeats
his
exhortation
to
the
Thessalonians
;
"
'VC
are
all
children
of
the
light
and
of the
day,
and
not
the
.sns
of night
or darkness
,
therefore' let
us
not
sleep as