ONE of the best-known passages in the Bible, and perhaps the most quoted, is that beautiful song of David, the twenty-third psalm, which begins with the lines: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters."
On page 93 of "Retrospection and Introspection" our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says, "The best spiritual type of Christly method for uplifting human thought and imparting divine Truth, is stationary power, stillness, and strength."
We cannot demonstrate the allness of God by evading the problem that confronts us, by fleeing before the frightening sense-evidence it may present, or by running around in circles, seeking the answer in a change of material conditions. There is no record that Daniel did any of these things when he was told he was to spend the night with hungry lions. We are prone to think that Daniel's demonstration was his coming out of the den the next morning, when, in fact, the real test was his ability to endure through the long night in that situation; to remain there quietly and trustingly, holding his peace, keeping his mental stillness intact, his sense of joy active, in spite of the presence of the lions. One could easily walk out of a den of lions were the way open; but to be calm in such a test one would need to find the "still waters" of Spirit, to quiet the temptation to give way to turbulent, fearful thinking.
