“Millions of people have memorized this psalm, even those who have learned few other Scripture portions. It has made the dying Christian slave freer than his master, and consoled those whom, dying, he left behind mourning, not so much that he was gone, as because they were left behind, and could not go, too.” (Henry Ward Beecher, cited in Charles Spurgeon) Dying soldiers have died easier as it was read to them ghastly hospitals have been illuminated it has visited the prisoner, and broken his chains, and, like Peter’s angel, led him forth in imagination, and sung him back to his home again. It has poured balm and consolation into the heart of the sick, of captives in dungeons, of widows in their pinching griefs, of orphans in their loneliness. It has sung courage to the army of the disappointed. It has comforted the noble host of the poor. It has remanded to their dungeon more felon thoughts, more black doubts, more thieving sorrows, than there are sands on the sea-shore. “It has charmed more griefs to rest than all the philosophy of the world. He had been a shepherd, and he was not ashamed of his former occupation.” Charles Spurgeon wrote, “I like to recall the fact that this psalm was written by David, probably when he was a king. Most account it to be a psalm of David’s maturity, but with vivid remembrance of his youth as a shepherd. Like many others, this beloved psalm bears the simple title A Psalm of David.
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