Editorial August 1, 1925 Issue

"A very present help in trouble"

Duncan Sinclair

What deep assurance of God's care and of His presence and power to help runs through the Psalms! Open them almost where one may, it is the same. One moment the heart is found giving utterance to its despair; the next it is singing the praises of God and rejoicing in His goodness and love. Thus, as it is written in the forty-sixth psalm, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble;" and in the ninety-first: "I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.... There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling."

What profound faith in God these words depict! And yet, they were penned long before Christ Jesus delivered his message of the Father's love to mankind, and longer still before Christian Science gave its great teaching to the world, teaching supplementary to that of the Master and of all the spiritual seers who had preceded him. If the Hebrew people of these far-off days of the Psalmist could sing so exultantly of their trust in God, how much more should those living in our own day of greatly increased spiritual enlightenment be able to do so! And indeed, many are doing so, many who have obtained an understanding of God through Christian Science.

Christian Science is showing that every trouble which afflicts mankind is due to wrong thinking about God and His creation, the spiritual universe, including man. How do the majority of men think at present? Do they not persistently believe that evil is as real as good and as powerful, if not more so? Believing this, are not many practicing evil incessantly,—dwelling upon it in their thoughts, manifesting it in their actions? The fact is that evil thinking and acting make up a not inconsiderable portion of human existence. And the result is trouble,—trouble of all kinds, including the most trifling sickness, disease in its severest forms, sorrow, and lack.

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