The Whole World Was Lost in the Darkness of Sin Hymn Lyrics
Philip Bliss
1 The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin;
The light of the world is Jesus;
Like sunshine at noonday His glory shone in,
The light of the world is Jesus.
Come to the light, ’tis shining for thee;
Sweetly the light has dawned upon me;
Once I was blind, but now I can see;
The light of the world is Jesus.
2 No darkness have we who in Jesus abide,
The light of the world is Jesus;
We walk in the light when we follow our Guide,
The light of the world is Jesus.
3 Ye dwellers in darkness with sin-blinded eyes,
The light of the world is Jesus;
Go, wash, at His bidding, and light will arise;
The light of the world is Jesus.
The Whole World Was Lost in the Darkness of Sin Hymn Story
DR. S. EARL TAYLOR, now missionary secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has visited Christian missions around the world, and has had unusual opportunity to hear missionary hymns sung in many different lands.
But rarely has he ever been so thrilled by hymn-singing, he declares, as during an eclipse of the sun in the Orient.
In India, the natives have a superstitious dread of an eclipse of the sun. They fear that the sun is being swallowed by a demon of some sort.
Once Dr. Taylor was in Calcutta during an eclipse of the sun.
For days before that event, he saw the city’s streets crowded with pilgrims on their way to various sacred places, where they hoped to worship and bathe in the Hoogly River just below the Ganges during the time of the eclipse, expecting thereby to ward off evil.
When at last the fateful hour of darkness arrived hundreds of thousands of natives thronged the sacred waters, terrorized by the eclipse and making a great clamor because they feared that a great power of evil in the form of a snake was about to swallow the sun-god.
As Dr. Taylor, looking from the Y. M. C. A. Building on the heights above, witnessed this terrible evidence of heathenish superstition, he heard a group of native Christians singing in their meeting:
“The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin;
The Light of the world is Jesus.”
The effect was thrilling! For India’s spiritual darkness is due solely to the eclipse of Jesus, the Light of the world, made by heathenism in the hearts of her benighted millions.
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