70 THE CHRISTIAN NATURALIST. 



another, has expressly directed our thoughts to him 

 who is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the 

 express image of his person. The rising of this great 

 spiritual luminary upon the world was reserved for the 

 New Testament dispensation, and the present part of 

 it may be considered as the Summer season of God*s 

 Church ; and the realization of the famous prophecy 

 of Malachi, " Unto you that fear my name shall the 

 Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings." 

 If, indeed, in contemplating this great mystery of 

 godliness, •* God manifest in the flesh," we are struck 

 with wonder and astonishment, our thoughts may 

 naturally turn also to the mystery which envelopes the 

 solar orb. Surely if we cannot comprehend the mate- 

 rial image of the Creator and the Redeemer, how much 

 less can we presume to know of that Great Being him- 

 self, who is the cause of causes and the power of 

 powers; by whose word it is that all the wheels of 

 nature are kept in continual motion through the agency 

 of the Sun as the main-spring, or central wheel, of 

 the whole system. Let those who deny the doctrine of 

 Christ's Godhead, because they cannot reason upon it, 

 explain to us first the mysteries of the natural world. 

 Let them tell us, what is Light? and whether it is a 



