Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 12, DeMotte, Jasper County, 18 February 1949 — Star Light [ARTICLE]

Star Light

How good it is to step forth into the night after a day of rain and see that the sky is clear and the stars gleaming in their accustomed places. A sky that clears by daylight is full of radiance but when it clears in darkness there is a glittering promise in every winking ray of starlight. There is reassurance in such stars hung in a night sky washed clean and made ready for clear days to come. Work is done by sunlight but it is under the stars that great dreams are dreamed. There is warmth and life in the day’s sunshine; but it is the stars that lure man’s mind to the endless immensity of a universe so broad that tangible reality can never span it. . No night is so dark as a starless night, nor is any life more drab than that of one who has never known the thrill of starlight after a storm, the comfort of it and the soothing assurance of stars once more in order. Give a sailor a star to steer by and he will come home to port. Give an airman the company of a star shining clear and you have given him both certainty and direction. Give any man a star on which to fix his eye and he can reach as far as his imagination points the way. The rains come, ana the dark days of a perverse season; and

the sky clears at evening. There is a sweet smell to the darkness, the fresh fragrance of a rainwashed world. And there is the brilliance of a thousand, galaxies overhead, starlight in the clear night sky.

G. F. Woods,

DeMotte, Ind.