light in the primitive days of
Christianity will be light at any other time. Whatever may be claimed to
be light, if it is not the light of Christ, is a false light.

May God help people to see the true light. Oh, glorious light of the
morning! Christ and his church in all humility, gentleness, spotlessness
and love. In their lowly, inoffensive walk with God, holy, harmless,
undefiled, unblamable, separated from and unspotted by the world,
persecuted, rejected, and despised by men. Enduring all without a murmur,
contented in any and every circumstance of life; counting everything joy,
glorying in tribulation, patient in imprisonments, in stripes, in tumults,
in hunger, in fastings, in necessities, in afflictions, in distresses,
always rejoicing. When reviled, they reviled not again; when they suffered
they threatened not, but showing all meekness and gentleness unto all men,
loving and praying for their enemies, feeding them when they hungered and
giving them drink when they thirsted, preaching the gospel without money
and without price, led exclusively by the Holy Spirit, having power with
God over devils to cast them out, to heal the sick and lame, to restore
sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf, to give speech to the dumb,
and to raise the dead. Wonderful light of the gospel morning! Dear reader,
we invite you to look upon the picture. See it in its beautiful
transparent effulgent light. Pure as heaven, holy as a band of angels,
peaceful as the silent, flowing river, harmless as the gentle dove, in a
oneness equal with the holy trinity, and conquerors of sickness, sin and
Satan. Such was the pure virgin bride of Christ--the church--when she was
the light of the world.

O Moon--so fair in the rosy morn,
Reflecting the light of Christ--the Sun,
So spotless and pure in robes of white,
Beautiful, wonderful city of light.

PART II. THE NOONDAY.

Or,
The Doctrines Of An Apostate Religion Obscuring The Gospel Light.

The prophet Isaiah said. "The morning cometh, and also the night." Isa.
21:11, 12. A dark night succeeded the morning of this gospel day. Jesus
said to his disciples, "But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun
shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light." Mark 13:24. The
tribulation here spoken of was the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, the
city of the Jews, by the son of Vespasian, A.D. 70, in which eleve