But old Christmas smiled as he laid this cruel-seeming spell on the outdoor world, for he meant to light up home with new brightness, to deepen all the richness of indoor color, and give a keener edge of delight to the warm fragrance of food; he meant to prepare a sweet imprisonment that would strengthen the primitive fellowship of kindred, and make the sunshine of familiar human faces as welcome as the hidden
day-star. His kindness fell but hardly on the homeless,--fell but hardly on the homes where the hearth was not very warm, and where the food had little fragrance; where the human faces had had no sunshine in them, but rather the leaden, blank-eyed gaze of unexpectant want.
In the same way Amadis was the polestar,
day-star, sun of valiant and devoted knights, whom all we who fight under the banner of love and chivalry are bound to imitate.
In this first issue, Jacobs explained the new title of the paper, stating that God provided a light for his followers that will "guide them in a dark place." (19) Further, he claimed, "the
day-star must arise before the Sun of Righteousness: The Resurrection must take place before Christ can come with 'all his saints.'" (20) Jacobs's new assertions differed greatly from his Millerite beliefs and even bore resemblance to Shakerism.