"As the sun goes forth on its errand of love,--dispelling the shades of night and awakening the world to life,
so the followers of Christ are to go forth on their mission,
--diffusing the light of heaven upon those who are in the darkness of error and sin.
The whole earth, wrapped as it is in the darkness of sin, and sorrow, and pain,
is to be lighted with
the knowledge of God's love.
From no sect, rank, or class of people is the light shining from heaven's throne to be excluded.
True character is not shaped from without, and put on;
it radiates from within."
Ellen White