Christ's Influence as the Light and Life Most Productive To-Day
H. W. Beecher. John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. Never was there a time when there was so much of Christ in the world as now, because the human race was never so largely in a condition to accept the Divine activity, and to be rendered productive by it. As the sun never had such harvests as now, so there never were such harvests of the Sun of Righteousness. As there is more raised in the State of Illinois in a year now than there was in ten thousand years before the prairies were brought into a state of cultivation, so the products of morality and spirituality are more abundant than they ever were before. In proportion as the minds of men are cleared and rendered susceptible to the activity of the Divine mind, human inspiration is increased individual by individual, family by family, nation by nation. (H. W. Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: In him was life; and the life was the light of men. WEB: In him was life, and the life was the light of men.