October 11
Companions of the Way (Morning)He brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made, for in those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it. And he called it Nehushtan.
ONE representation of our Lord's Second Advent is "as a thief in the night." The principle of spiritual deprivation of imperfect faith, or of unreasoning acquiescence in traditional interpretations of truth, is a law of spiritual progress. . . . In the night of Jewish conservatism the Lord of Life and Light came as a thief, to take from Scribes and Pharisees their confidence in natural birth, and their dependence for salvation on a strict observance of ritual. . . . So long as we are content with imperfect things, we are unprepared for the more perfect. When our candle ceases to give light, and we reverence the FARQUHAR empty candlestick, it is time for its removal.
A LIVING ORTHODOXY