I am not acquainted with the spiritual rendering of "He giveth His beloved sleep," but I want to tell you how it helped me. My nephew (three years of age) sleeps in his crib by my side, since little sister came. His parents are not Scientists, but I care for him in Science when I have him in charge, and a wondrous work it has done for him. He was away, one day, and, in belief, played very hard. Upon his return he would scream in his sleep, at intervals, all night it seemed. I said, "God can deal with this." To thought came, "He giveth His beloved sleep." I had heard it rendered, "He giveth His beloved in their sleep." But I just gave the scriptural words, and left it with God to give the meaning. I laid down and slept unmolested. I felt that those words touched the need and I never questioned how.
I think sometimes I try too hard to realize the Truth. I look and look into the River of Life and try to make it a shallow stream, just my own depth of understanding. I think if I state the Truth and leave it to its unknown, wondrous work in trust, I gain the better results.
My pet knows little of Science, but for a belief of cold I said, "No impurity touches you. You are a pure thought of God." He said, "Auntie! is impurity naughtiness?" How soon the little ones speak untold Truth. He felt that I held him responsible for the claim I was treating.
