Visitors to the Mammoth Cave

When visitors to the Mammoth Cave are preparing to enter that wonderful cavern, the guide puts a lighted lamp into the hand of each tourist.

It is noonday perhaps, and it seems very foolish to walk down the green bank carrying the lamps in the bright sunshine.

But when the party enters the mouth of the cave, and go a little distance — they understand the use of their lamps. In the darkness they would perish, but for their pale light.

Just so, some people do not think, when they are moving along in joy and gladness, that they need Christ; but by and by it grows dark in some path of sorrow — and then they learn the blessing of having Christ beforehand.

If they have Him in their hearts, they find it light all about them; if they have Him not, the gloom is turned to despair.

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