Editorial May 1, 1937 Issue

"My refuge and my fortress"

Duncan Sinclair

"I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust." What faith in God do these words of the ninety-first Psalm show! What confidence in His power to shield and protect! The whole of the Psalm is a song of gratitude for the goodness and protecting power of the Almighty. Are we thankful enough for the Psalms as they are preserved for us in the Bible? Probably more than any other religious literature that has reached us from the past, they portray the thoughts of the sons of men in their joy and in their sorrow, in their gladness and in their pain, in their reaching out to the Most High and in their reliance upon Him.

Sometimes, in Christian Science practice, it is found that a Psalm such as the ninety-first, the twenty-third, or the forty-sixth, will bring great comfort to one in distress, more especially if he be a beginner in Christian Science. They serve to lead his thought to God, and away from contemplation of himself; to strengthen his hope in the divine presence and power, and to increase his faith in the Giver of all good. Time and again such Psalms as these have calmed the troubled thought, comforted the sorrowing heart, relieved the physically distressed. And in so doing they have greatly aided the Christian Scientist in his healing work.

Christian Science enlightens the understanding on the nature of God. This is one of the first things the Christian Science practitioner endeavors to bring about when a case comes to him for healing, especially if the patient knows little about the Almighty. And what can be more arresting to the thought of the one who is believing in some form of evil, be it disease, sin, sorrow, or lack, than to be told that God is infinite Love, infinite good? Naturally, he will consider what is implied by this great truth. He will see that the fact that God is infinite Love, infinite good, means that in real being nothing harmful really exists. He will thus realize that evil is unreal; and with the realization a change for the better will come over him. He will continue to ponder Mrs. Eddy's great discovery, seeking to make it his own, seeking to realize the immensity of it; and while he is doing so his consciousness will be yielding up its erroneous dross, thus making way for establishment therein of the good, the lovely, the true, and the pure.

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