“THE night also brings us a great many blessings:
“1st. It instructs us by withdrawing from our use and our sight the creatures which surround us. It recalls to our mind the nothingness from which we have sprung, and the darkness of idolatry from which have have been freed by the gospel.
“2d. The night brings us rest and sleep, but it does it gently and with deference, to teach us that all things are made for us, and ourselves for God.
“3d. The night refreshes the air, and preserves the herbs and plants, which would perish if the sun were to remain always above the horizon.
“4th. It secures our lives against wild beasts. These beasts go forth during night to seek their prey, but if there were no night, hunger would force them to go forth during the day, and thus man would be incessantly exposed to their fury.”
— The Catechism of Perseverance, Abbé Jean Gaume (1858)
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