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Last Updated on : July 10, 2013

 

 

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May 2nd -- Ecc. 11

The Light Is Sweet


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"Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun." These words which are to be found in the 11th chapter of Ecclesiastes, 7th verse, are very beautiful in a natural sense; but what Christadelphian is there who has not felt how applicable they are to that Word which is truly a light to his feet and a lamp to his path? By the intelligence and honest courage of brethren, to whom we are deeply indebted, the mysteriousness of orthodoxy has been dispelled, the multitude of errors which darkened the horizon of truth has been cast away, and our eyes which were obscured by false doctrines, now see in the oracles of God the way to that inheritance which Peter declared to be incorruptible, undefiled, and which will never fade away. And what makes the light, in which we rejoice as Christadelphians, so sweet to the mental eye? It is because in it there is no contradiction; in it there is nothing contrary to our reason. As to a beautiful object, smoothness and regularity are essential features; so perfect harmony distinguishes Christadelphian principles -- harmony not only with a man's reason, but with his spiritual aspirations.

Robert Roberts, The Ambassador of the Coming Age, 1868, page 345

 

 


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