"IN THE SHADOW"

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To all of us, light is very precious to us and more so because this life is a twilight season to all of us, we are all in the shadow. It is not all dark, neither is it all light, but it is full of shadows, shadows of sin, shadows of sorrow, shadows of sickness,of want, of disappointment, of death. The brightest life cannot be all sunshine. Over the rich and poor alike the shadows fall. The brightest eyes must dim with tears sometimes, the gayest voices must turn to mourning sometimes. The church on earth has ever been in the shadow of trouble, its members have had to suffer many things. In the church there have been persecution, of division, of false doctrine, of lukewarmness,etc. So with our selves the individual members of the church, we are more or less in the shadow. Some of us are under a great sin, repented of, and so pardoned, but we have not forgotten. Some of us are under the shadow of a worldly loss. It may be the shadow of a great bereavment which has fallen upon us again. The shadow of an illness may have fallen. We cannot make the darkness light, or scatter the shadows, or hasten the day break. Jesus alone can do that. He once said," Let there be light." Will say so again in answer to our prayers.