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DISC.
NO
NIGHT
IN
HEAVEN.
4
t
Remark
IV.
"
Under our darkest
nights,
our
most
in-
active
and.
heavy hours,
our
most uncomfortable seasons
here
on
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
from
our
eyes
for
a
season
?
What
if
we
are called
to seek
our duty
in
dark
providences,
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 my
nights
anddarknesses for
ever. Make. haste,
O
delightful morning, and delay
not
my
hopes.
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
joy
eternal."
Amen.