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Light from the Bible
In this picture you see a lamp, a torch, a rock, a ship, and a book. All these objects are suggestive. Lamps and torches are used to light up dark places. If we go down into deep mines, or caves, or into some dens of the city, what do we find? Darkness. Yes. The sunlight never enters these places, and so we must take the lamp or torch along to light up the way. Go down into the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and you must flash your torch upon the darkness if you would see.
There is darkness in the spiritual as well as in the natural world. Hence, Paul said of wicked men, "Their foolish heart was darkened." Rom. i. 21. He also affirms that the Gentiles had "the understanding darkened." Eph. iv. 18. Now, what do we need in this darkness of the soul? Light. Yes. Where shall we find it? In the Bible. Men who follow the Bible never go astray. It banishes their darkness. Hear what Peter says about it: "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place." 2 Pet. i. 19.
This is the book we love to study Sabbath after Sabbath, and BLACKBOARD ILLUSTRATIONS, &c. 241 no other book can guide us to heaven. What would we do without it? "Rob us of our Bible, and our sky has lost its sun, and in the best of other books we have naught but the glimmer of twinkling stars." - Guthrie.
In the picture you also see a vessel and in the distance a rock. The vessel seems to be dashing right on toward the rock. But there is a chart on board, and this gives timely warning, and the vessel is saved. There are rocks in the current of your lives. children. Name some of them. Pride, Revenge, Falsehood, Disobedience, etc. Take the Bible for your chart. After one of the old Reformers had finished a controversy with an enemy of the truth, a friend begged to see the notes he had used in the discussion, and was surprised to find written there, many times in succession, the words, "More light, Lord-more light, more light!" Make this your prayer. "More light, more light!"