LIGHT FOR RESCUE
The recently improved buoy is a remarkable device now in use in the life-saving service of the United States. By means of the signal lights, its position will always be known to those on shore and on the wreck. The green light moving toward the vessel mutely tells the shipwrecked passengers that help is at hand and encourages them to hold on until the buoy reaches them.
How many imperiled mariners on the sea of life are lost in the darkness because they see not the helping hand stretched out to save them.
(1843)
LIGHT-GIVING
One of the first lessons that Jesus inculcated in the minds of His disciples who were to become His messengers, was that they should be lights in the midst of the moral and spiritual gloom.
A preacher one dark night lost his way in a corner of a strange neighborhood. Meeting a farm laborer and asking his way, he received for answer, “Follow that light and you will not have gone far before you hear the bells of the next village.”
(1844)
LIGHT, IMMORTAL
Richard Watson Gilder, who died in 1909, and whose dream is now reality, wrote this beautiful prayer: