As life confronts us it appears two-faced. One face is in the sunlight of Love; the other is in the shadow of fear. On the darker side is sickness and sin, want and woe. On the brighter side is faith and hope, love and life. The pathway of one leads towards disaster, disease, death. The highway of the other mounts upward toward victory, peace, life. The one is real and genuine: the other is only a spurious counterfeit. For it is written, "God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all."
The scriptures are all on the side of the true man. The Bible is a text-book on how to keep on the bright side of life. Its treasures of hope glisten with bright promises for success of the right. It gives assurance to man that he shall possess all good. It foretells that the dearest desires of his heart shall find fulfilment. To the afflicted it extends comfort. To the sick it promises health. To the weary and heavy laden it prophesies sweet rest. To the afflicted there comes the ray of sunshine, "O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires." To those in the darkened chambers of disease there are bright stars of hope, saying, "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily;" and another bright star rises with the message, "I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds."
To the weary and heavy laden there is the sweet promise, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
