ii. 5. _O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the
light of the Lord._
"The light of the Lord" streams upon us from His Word (Ps.
cxix. 105). The knowledge of God and of His holy will which the Bible
imparts to us is the meridian sun which casts his rays on the cold
scenes of our earthly career. +I. The religion of the Bible
illumines.+ Into how many errors did unaided human reason fall, when
the nature of God and of His operations was the subject of its
inquiries![1] Did not the wisest grope in darkness? Did they not
conceive absurdities, even when man and his fate were the subject of
their inquiries?[2] How full, clear, and steady is the light which
the Scriptures cast upon these and other great subjects of human
thought! +II. The religion of the Bible warms.+ That God is great and
all-powerful some philosophers imagined before the divine light of
inspired truth shone forth; but the human heart remained cold, and
felt in itself no point of contact and union with so exalted a Being.
Until God said, "I am your Father," we were as orphans in a strange
land; but then at once the world became to us as a parent's dwelling,
and our heart began to warm with love towards God and man. +III. The
religion of the Bible vivifies.+ It animates and restores the weary,
the dying! +IV. The religion of the Bible blesses+--now,[3] and for
ever (1 Tim. iv. 8).--_G. Salomon, Twelve Sermons,_ pp. 1-24.