Light and Health
2 Samuel 22:29
For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.


Sir James Wylie, late physician to the Emperor of Russia, attentively studied the effects of light as a curative agent in the hospital of St. Petersburg, and he discovered that the number of patients who were cured in rosins properly lighted was four times that of those confined in dark room. These different results are due to the agency of light, without a full supply of which plants and animals maintain but a sickly and feeble existence. Light is the cheapest and best of all medicines. Nervous ailments yield to the power of sunshine. Pallid faces grow fresh and ruddy beneath its glow. The sun's rays have wonderful purifying power.

(H. L. Hastings.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

WEB: For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.




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