CHRISTIAN LADY'S MAGAZINE.
"I am the Light of the world." Such is the brief and
sublime description which our Lord has given us of His
own true character. Light, with all its many wonders,
as observation and science have revealed them in every
field of Nature, is only a type; and He himself is the
glorious antitype. Above and beyond this outward
world, lit up with the sunbeams, there is a higher and
nobler world of thought and reason, of truth and eter-
nal wisdom, of which the Lord Jesus is the Sun and
Centre, the one source of true light to the whole intel-
lectual and spiritual universe. Here then, is a still
wider field of meditation, in which to explore His un-
searchable treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
The truth itself meets us, in various forms, throughout the whole course of inspired Scripture. Do we read, in its very opening, the sublime fiat of the Creator ? "God said, Let there be light, and there was light."