“The night also is Thine.” — Psalm 74:16

Yes, Lord, Thou dost not abdicate Thy throne when the sun goeth down,
nor dost Thou leave the world all through these long wintry nights to be
the prey of evil; Thine eyes watch us as the stars, and Thine arms
surround us as the zodiac belts the sky. The dews of kindly sleep and all
the influences of the moon are in Thy hand, and the alarms and solemnities
of night are equally with Thee. This is very sweet to me when watching
through the midnight hours, or tossing to and fro in anguish. There are
precious fruits put forth by the moon as well as by the sun: may my Lord
make me to be a favoured partaker in them.

The night of affliction is as much under the arrangement and control of the Lord of Love as the bright summer days when all is bliss. Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise. From the first watch of the night even unto the break of day the eternal Watcher observes His saints, and…

overrules the shades and dews of midnight for His people’s highest good.
We believe in no rival deities of good and evil contending for the mastery,
but we hear the voice of Jehovah saying, “I create light and I create
darkness; I, the Lord, do all these things.”

Gloomy seasons of religious indifference and social sin are not exempted
from the divine purpose. When the altars of truth are defiled, and the ways
of God forsaken, the Lord’s servants weep with bitter sorrow, but they
may not despair, for the darkest eras are governed by the Lord, and shall
come to their end at His bidding. What may seem defeat to us may be
victory to Him.

“Though enwrapt in gloomy night,
We perceive no ray of light;

Since the Lord Himself is here,
‘Tis not meet that we should fear.”

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