Editorial September 29, 1923 Issue

"Thou hast been a shelter for me"

Duncan Sinclair

The Psalms contain many a reference to God as the protector of man, but few can surpass that which occurs in the sixty-first. There David is depicted as fleeing to God, beseeching Him to hear his cry and to attend unto his prayer. Then, almost immediately after his entreaty, there comes an experience: of gratitude out of the deep heart of his "For "For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings."

David, as shepherd boy and king, typifies in many ways those who have more than glimpsed the truth that there exists a God in whom they can put their trust. As shepherd boy he had found protection and deliverance from evil through his faith in God; as ruler over a primitive Eastern people, he had been able through the same faith to shelter them from their enemies. But David's life was one of spiritual ebb and flow, reaching at times to lofty heights of spiritual understanding and blessedness, on other occa sions sinking to depths of degradation from which his understanding of good must have revolted. The most interesting fact, however, about the life of David is that it did rise to great spiritual heights, in spite of the materiality of the period in which he lived; and that, in consequence, he was able to leave his spiritual experiences on record as a help and a comfort to all who came after him.

"Thou hast been a shelter for me"! What a great company in these days can utter the words as if they were their own, in all sincerity and in all truthfulness! For God has been revealed to them through Christian Science, in all the glory of His omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. The truth about God was dawning upon the consciousness of the human race in David's day; now it has risen to full-orbed splendor, and pours its blessings without measure upon every receptive, humble heart the world over. Christian Science has brought this about; and now as never before every one may prove for himself that God can become a shelter for him in every trouble, in every difficulty.

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