Excerpt
from
Watch and Pray
ETHEL
MUNRO GOSS
Daniel's
victory over the lions was not the sudden triumph of a day,
but it was the result of many days of faithful prayer when,
with face turned toward Jerusalem, he looked away from
material sense and prayed to the God of his fathers. This
daily watchfulness and prayer had formed in his
consciousness a rock-bound confidence in the allness of God,
a sense of the unreality of that which is unlike God, and so
he was ready for the larger problems when hate and malice
threw him to the lions. We are not tested beyond our
endurance if we are faithful, and so Daniel's faith and
trust, strengthened by those days of prayer, enabled him to
prove the nothingness of animality, and when the morning
light came, he could turn his back on the lions, aware of
their utter powerlessness, and then serenely look up and
answer the king, "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut
the lion's mouths."
Excerpt from "Watch
and Pray" by Ethel Munro Goss
Christian Science
Sentinel, December 27, 1919
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