FROM THE PULPIT.
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concerns itself solaly with the Vaible, causes of the changes
which take place in the world.
Another thing to be remembered, and too easily forgotten when things are not to our mind, is that after all sunshine in its season is the rule and the lack of it, the ex- ception. "I go mourning without the sun "only one who had been used to walking joyfully in the light would utter such a lament, And all our complaints about the damp and discomfort of the gloomy season is really an ad- mission that in the goodness of God we usually have something very different. Why else indeed all the surprise, the disappoint- ment, the searching of memories and examination of "records to see how long it is since we had Tach a year as this? But if our season has been sunless it is cer- tainly not because the sun has failed to shine as usual. His
have rays
Hot been stopped at the fountain, only earth-born clouds" have hidden
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him from our eyes. The vapours which cut off his cheering beams come not from above, but from underneath. Similarly God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. He changes not, but al ways directs the light of His coun- tenance toward His intelligent creatures. And if the souls of men are unillumiced the cause must be found elsewhere than in God, whose goodness is constantly, as widely, and as impartially diffused as the rays of the great orb which rules the day. A sunless season is bad enough in its way, but infinitely sadder is a sunless soul. The clouds
from ourselves. earth born every one of them, emanations from our own sinful natures. This, said our Saviour, is the condemnation, not that there is darkness in the world, but that hight is come into it and ren love the darkness better because their deeds are evil. None so bliad as those who will not see, and none! so darkened as those who will not look, but cover themselves with the veiling vapours of unbelief.
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