(See illustration on cover).
You see the prisoner in his lonely cell. His days are spent in solitude. At a certain time each day, the light of the sun at dawn shines into his cell; then, he gets as near as he can to the window to bask in the glorious rays. The shadows are behind him as he gazes on the clear shining of the morning.
What a picture is this of the sinner “sitting in darkness and the shadow of death” in the cell of sin. We are told that those who “sat in darkness saw a great light.” Yes, many a sinner has seen the light of salvation dawning upon him. “The light of the knowledge of the glory of God its the face of Jesus Christ.” When the sinner sees the glory of that light, his prison doors are open and he is set free. To the dear man in the picture deliverance came at last, and it will come to all my readers if they look to Jesus, who when on earth was the “Light of the world,” and who in heaven today is the light of eternity.