On tonight's episode, readings will come from in the lights and shadows of life by T.S. Arthur.

The readings will be slightly different because they will be coming from the intro and the preface

and autobiography section at the start of the book.

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Preface, to all as they pass through the world come light and shadow.

Though the sun may be in the heavens, clouds often intervene and cast deep shadows about our footsteps.

But it is a truth which we cannot too deeply lay to heart that in our life, as in nature, the exhalations which form the obscuring cloud arise from below. They are not born in pure heavens, but spring out of the earth beneath.

If there was nothing evil in the mind, there would be no cloud in the sky of our being,

all would be eternal sunshine.

If therefore in this book, the lights and shadows, all would be eternal sunshine.

If therefore in this book, the lights and shadows are blessed,

if in a word the clouds often hang heavy and remain long in the sky.

The fault is in those whose histories we have written but the sky does not always remain dark as the heart becomes filled with better purposes through the trials and pains of adversity or comes out purer from the furnace of affliction.

The clouds disperse and the blessed sunlight comes again.

Lay this up for your consolation, all ye who are in trouble and affliction,

and look hopefully in the future.

It will not always remain dark as in the present time.

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