As I read the Bible Lesson (subject: GOD) this morning, I came to the part about Daniel’s experience when the rulers and presidents were jealous of him.
“Then Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes,
because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over
the whole realm” (Daniel 6: 3). [Although this particular passage is not
included in the Lesson's citations this week, it is close by.]
The thought came that, like Daniel, John Wyndham, the author of
our book The Ultimate Freedom, seems to have been an extraordinary
presence, which his Japanese captors recognised. Like Joseph in captivity too.
How about Psalm 27:1 in the second section (citation 9) of the
lesson! It could easily have been one of the Bible truths which came to our
hero. Paraphrase: “The Lord was/is the light of (his) salvation; whom shall
(he) fear?”.
I am reminded of John Bunyan’s allegory, The Pilgrim’s Progress
(published in two parts in 1678 and 1684). Not that I really know the book, but
it did come to mind. There were excerpts from the book in my School Reader, the
study of which was, I feel, the foundation of my love of reading and of good
books – back in the 1940s.
In that imprisoned situation, John Wyndham lived the truth of the
Bible and Science and Health, even though those “companion books” were
not available to him.
Joyce Voysey, Jan. 4, 2024
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