We are in darkness till we are converted; because we are blind—and that not by accident, but by nature—born blind. There are animals, both wild and domestic, which by a strange and mysterious law of Providence are in that state when born. “Having eyes, they see not.” Apparently unripe for birth, they leave their mother’s womb to pass the first period of their being utterly sightless.
But when some ten days have come and gone, time unseals their eyelids, and they are delivered from the power of darkness. But not ten days, nor years, nor any length of time will do us any such friendly office. Not that we shall be always blind. Oh, how men shall see, and regret in another world, the folly they were guilty of in this! Eternity opens the darkest eyes, but opens them at last too late —GUTHRIE.
