A writer in the '"Spectaitor" long ago pointed out that though sunrising and sunsetting both consisted of the mingling of light and shadow, there is an enormous difference in the impression they make, because one has for a background the light that is frding, the other the light that is growing. True religion that has the signature of Jesus has this mark upon it of undying hope, and makes us read the changes and sorrows of our time not against the dusk of the gods, but against the Day of the Lord, and by this hope we are saved.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.