Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Just as the sun does not cease being visible even if it is not actually seen at times when clouds cover it - since its radiance later shines with very brilliant splendor - so the church does not cease being visible even if the true confessors are hidden in saves and secret places, because they will again come out into public when the madness of their persecutors cools and the darkness of heresy has ended. -- Blessed Johann Gerhard, *On the Church* p. 185.