With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . lived, where they did not have gas andelectric lamps to light the streets, when people went out at night theyalways carried a lantern. And so David said, Thy word is alamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Ps. cxix: 105.) When people go out of doors into the darkness with a lanternthey do not hold it way up high, but hold it down near their feet, sothat they can see the path, and it enables them to walk with securityand safety. Sometimes there are men who have gone to college,and have learned Lati
With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . lived, where they did not have gas andelectric lamps to light the streets, when people went out at night theyalways carried a lantern. And so David said, Thy word is alamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Ps. cxix: 105.) When people go out of doors into the darkness with a lanternthey do not hold it way up high, but hold it down near their feet, sothat they can see the path, and it enables them to walk with securityand safety. Sometimes there are men who have gone to college,and have learned Latin and Greek, have studied the sciences andphilosophy, and they think they have learned a very great afterwards they have studied medicine and become physi-cians, or have read law and become lawyers, and they think thatthey are able with all they know to find the true path of blessingthrough life. They think they have light enough of do not seem to know that all about them there is a darknessof great mystery; that sin and death and destruction lurk all along. 142 Coming Across the Hill Carrying this Strange Lantern. LANTERNS. 143 their way through life, and that their pathway is full of snares, andpitfalls, and dangers, but they try to walk with the little light thatthere is in the human understanding. There is another class of men who go through college and whomay, perchance, study much, and the more they study the more theycome to realize how little they know, and how much there is beyondthem that they do not understand at all. With the little light ofhuman understanding they comprehend how very dense and darkare the mysteries all about them, and so in order that they maywalk safely through life, and come at last to the city of eternalsafety, they take Gods Word as a lamp to their feet. Just thesame as a person in the country carries a lamp in order that he mayfind his path, so these good people take the Word of God and theymake it the lamp unto th
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