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88 That the moon symbolizes the Lord as our faith may be illustrated by these considerations: The moon shines by reflected light, while the sun is light and heat in itself. The faith of the mind is true and bright only as it is reflected from love—only as it is a response to the deep love of the heart. The moon's light is borrowed from the sun. Sunlight, therefore, is the great natural power of life and growth which broods upon the face of the earth. Moonlight has very little to do with covering the land with corn, with filling the gardens with flowers, or with loading the trees with fruit. The moon without the sun would have neither light nor life. Faith without love is cold and dead. It can neither warm the heart, enlighten the mind, nor give salvation to the man. But faith that is kindled at the shrine of the heart's best love, faith which borrows its light from love, faith which reflects the sunny glow of the heart's true love on every pathway of life—that is at once the sign and seal of a soul that is saved.

Thus while the Lord lights up our life with love, when love is triumphant in the world of the heart, it is faith which lights the path when all is dark. When we are happy, when we are loving, when we are in states of elevated spiritual feeling, when it is day time for the soul, we feel, and see, and recognize