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light in its radiance and absorb its wondrous 

 influence. But the secret of its transforming 

 power is known only to Him Who commanded 

 its existence back at the dawn of creation. That 

 first mandate of the Creator. "And God said, 

 Let there be light, and light was," is unques- 

 tionably the grandest sentence ever spoken or 

 written; at least, so all rhetoricians agree. 

 Earth was without form and void and darkness 

 dense and dismal reigned supreme. A world 

 of darkness would have been a world of death. 

 Light was God's fashioning spirit, crystalizing 

 and unifying matter, establishing order and 

 evolving life and beauty. 



How subtly suggestive of the spiritual. It is 

 everywhere, yet invisible; ever revealing and 

 ever concealing; enwrapping objects in transfig- 

 ured beauty and infusing life as at creation's 

 birth. Light is never confined to its centre but 

 ever out on diffusive errands flooding a uni- 

 verse and revealing worlds on worlds far out 

 into space. How pure and beautiful. 



"Hail, Holy Light, offspring of Heaven, first 

 born — 

 God's eldest daughter." 



We do not need the authority of the scien- 



