
“Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness”
Song (1883).
“Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness”
Apologia
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), Forest of Wild Thyme
I'd mourn the Hopes.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Was falsely attributed to Rutherford by Joni Eareckson-Tada in Heaven: Your Real Home http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=cQrPd8R0o0kC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (2010), p. 259 From Edward Payson in " Momentos of Rev. Edward Payson D.D., ed. Edwin L. Janes (New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1873), p. 87 https://archive.org/details/mementosofrevedw00pays/mode/2up.
The Original version reads: "... for if you should see a man shut up in a close room, idolizing a set of lamps, and rejoicing in their light, and you wished to make him truly happy, you would begin by blowing out all his lamps, and then throw open the shutters, to let in the light of heaven."
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Samuel Rutherford / Misattributed
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
Context: And now we are wanting everyone in every country through the education department of every government to unfold that inner content of life. It’s very simple to light the lamp is so easy. And yet that process of lighting the lamp is enough to eliminate the difficulties in the darkness.