loveliness and beauty of the allusions to green pastures, still waters, and the like. The valley of the shadow of death, however, is what faces all people of every race and clime. A Greek village woman of olden time once took her baby to a wise man, asking him if he could foretell the child’s future. “There is only one thing that I can tell you for sure about your baby,” he replied, “and that is, he is going to die.” The tremendous lesson of this psalm, then, is that God is love, God is loyal,