Article August 14, 1971 Issue

Stand or Appease?

ROBERT J. HILL

It was three o'clock in the morning. The young lawyer had been restless all night. The telephone rang, and when he answered it, an angry voice said, "If you continue with the case, you won't live out the week." He recognized the voice.

He arose and began to pray. It was difficult. Many fearful thoughts came to him, as well as temptations to appease the one who had threatened him. But as he continued to pray, this passage from a psalm brought him comfort: "The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust." Another verse assured him of God's protection: "Yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man."^{Ps. 18:2, 48;}

The attorney began to discern the operation of the law of God, the governing Principle of all. He saw that this law controlled not only him but also the one who had threatened him. Consequently there was only one solution to the problem—God's solution, embodying justice, strength, fearlessness, and peace. He saw that no harm could come to him or to anyone who acknowledges this law. He continued to carry out his highest sense of justice in the case and heard no more from the one who had threatened him.

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