Article April 27, 1940 Issue

"Hope thou in God"

MINNIE H. GRISWOLD

"Hope thou in God." With this prayerful attitude of mind, the Psalmist replaced his fear when the way seemed dark and his thought was disquieted within him. Later in the forty-second Psalm, when hope brightens the outlook, he continues, "Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life." Throughout the Psalms we find joyous expectation and renewed hope counteracting despair, keeping thought buoyant with confidence in the goodness and mercy of God. Christian hope has been defined as "an enduring trust and firm expectation of all promised good." Then, surely, we may all hope to receive the good and perfect gifts which the Scriptures inform us come from above.

When everything else has failed, men instinctively turn to God in their helplessness. In humility all must at last acknowledge the disappointing results of material ways and means. This prepares them to lift thought trustingly to God as the only possible deliverer from evil. This turning to God, as Christian Science teaches men to do, is the basis or starting point of all right reasoning. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the first sentence of the Preface is one that breathes the spirit of hope in God (p. vii): "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." The quiet assurance of this message has brought peace to many a troubled heart. It awakens the thinker to a diviner sense of the one creation, governed harmoniously according to Love's directing.

What is of more vital importance to a man than to find God? His whole outlook upon life is changed when he discovers his divine birthright as a child of God. Now he can feel secure in the knowledge that no circumstance or condition can separate him from this eternal relationship or the blessings of joyous spiritual freedom.

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