Article July 30, 1927 Issue

"We trust in the Lord our God"

LOUISE W. PRIMROSE

In the history of Hezekiah, king of Judah, we read of the attempt of Sennacherib to take and destroy the city of Jerusalem. Flushed with the success of victory over other cities of the land, and disdaining to come himself for what seemed to him so easy a conquest, he sent his servant Rabshakeh with a vast army to deliver his message to Hezekiah. Through this messenger he voiced a question, the exultant mockery of which rings repeatedly throughout the entire challenge: "What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?"

As we read the wonderful record of the triumph of that confidence, resulting in so great a deliverance, we realize that Hezekiah's trust in God must have been of such pure and steadfast quality as to exclude all doubt as to the result of his prayer. Faced with the host of would-be invaders, besieged on all sides by implacable foes, yet his courage never wavered, nor did his trust in God's willingness to answer his prayer fail or falter. Little wonder then, with such a ruler, that the people on the wall heard with calmness Rabshakeh's threats, "and answered him not a word."

Throughout the world to-day still echoes the question, "What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?"—sometimes asked in mockery, often in the silent longing of some burdened heart to find an answer in the lives of those whom Christian Science has touched with its marvelous light. Does it not then behoove us, as students of this great Science, to inquire into the measure of reliance we are placing on our Father-Mother God, that, when the hosts of doubt and fear cluster thickly at the gate of consciousness, we may stand upon the wall and look out upon them with fearless eyes, nor swerve in our express allegiance, lest at some crucial moment we merit the Saviour's gentle reproach, "O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?"

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