"Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings."
-MAL. iv. 2.
"O send out Thy light and Thy truth; let them lead me." -PS. xliii. 3.
OPEN our eyes, thou Sun of life and gladness,
That we may see that glorious world of Thine!
It shines for us in vain, while drooping sadness
Enfolds us here like mist; come, Power benign,
Touch our chilled hearts with vernal smile,
Our wintry course do Thou beguile.
Nor by the wayside ruins let us mourn,
Who have th' eternal towers for our appointed bourn.
-J. KEBLE
BECAUSE all those scattered rays of beauties and loveliness which we behold spread up and down over all world, are only the emanations of that inexhausted light which is above; therefore should we love them all in that, and climb up always by those sunbeams unto the eternal Father of lights: we should look upon Him, and always eyeing Him, should, as Hierocles speaks, 'polish and shape our souls into the clearest resemblance of Him'; and in our behaviour in this world (that great temple of His) deport ourselves decently and reverently, with that humility, meekness, and modesty that becomes His house.
DR. JOHN SMITH, d. 1652.
