midnight
I wish they would get some other name for that -- the Tombs -- for it is the cleanest prison I ever saw . But the great want of that prison and of all others is sunshine . God 's light is a purifier . You can not expect reformation where you brood over a man with perpetual midnight . Oh that some Howard or Elizabeth Fry would cry through all the dungeons of the earth , `` Let there be light ! '' I never heard of anybody being brought to God or reformed through darkness . God Himself is light , and that which is most like God is most healthful and pure .