In verse 3 we have a picture of God as Light shining into the dark and empty heart. In verse 4 we see that God separates good from evil. Now I want you to think of these things, and as we have been talking of the words, God is Light, God is Love, I am going to copy for you a hymn, which speaks of them very beautifully; my children know it well, and often sing it. "God in mercy sent His Son To a world by sin undone. Jesus Christ was crucified; _'Twas for sinners Jesus died_. Oh! the glory of the grace, Shining in the Saviour's face, Telling sinners from above, 'God is Light,' and 'God is Love.' "Sin and death no more shall reign, Jesus died and lives again! In the glory's highest height-- See Him God's supreme delight. Oh! the glory of the grace, Shining in the Saviour's face, Telling sinners from above, 'God is Light,' and 'God is Love.' "All who on His name believe, Everlasting life receive; Lord of all is Jesus now, Every knee to him must bow. Oh! the glory of the grace, Shining in the Saviour's face, Telling sinners from above, 'God is Light,' and 'God is Love.' "Christ the Lord will come again, He who suffered once will reign; Every tongue at last shall own, 'Worthy is the Lamb' alone. Oh! the glory of the grace, Shining in the Saviour's face, Telling sinners from above, 'God is Light,' and 'God is Love.'" H. K. BURLINGHAM. THE SECOND DAY. THE OCEAN OF AIR. "_Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of Him which is perfect in knowledge?... Hast thou with Him spread out the sky?_"--JOB xxxvii. 16-18. "_When He prepared the heavens, I was there: when He set a compass upon the face of the depth: when He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep._"--PROVERBS viii. 27, 28. "_Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span?_"--ISAIAH xl. 12. In reading these beautiful verses, let us remember that in the second of them it is the Lord Jesus Christ who says of that time when God prepared the heavens, "I was there." And now, as we are going to think about what God did on the SECOND DAY of Creation, I want you not only very carefully to read those verses in the first chapter of Genesis which tell us about it (verses 6-9), but to keep your Bible open at the place, so that you may be able to refer to them constantly. When we had read them together, my children noticed that in these verses we find once more three words which are used to tell us about the work of God upon the FIRST DAY. You see these words, do you not? "God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters." "God divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament." "God called the firmament Heaven." And there is one word which has not been used before: "And God made the firmament."