Article May 13, 1939 Issue

Overcoming Confusion of Thought

JOHN F. WADDINGTON

In these stirring times there is a tendency to become confused. People everywhere are asking themselves: "What is right? What should be done under the circumstances? How is war to be avoided and peace established?" The so-called forces of evil, obstruction, and destruction, produce the confusion and the fear which, in crucial moments, would drive mankind into hasty or ill-considered action. In any circumstance we can ask ourselves: What is the absolute truth? Is this seemingly overwhelming sense of fear and foreboding true or false? If it is true, how can we meet it? If it is false, need we continue any longer under its mesmerism?

Christian Science teaches men to separate the chaff of false belief from the wheat of divine fact. Love and hate, Spirit and matter, Truth and error, are wholly opposed today as ever; and when faced by crises, or evils of an acute or chronic nature, students of Christian Science know how to distinguish between the real and the unreal; to know that which is true, and deny and reject that which is false and unlike good.

Mrs. Eddy states in "Miscellaneous Writings" (pp. 122, 123): "Divine Love knows no hate; for hate, or the hater, is nothing: God never made it, and He made all that was made. The hater's pleasures are unreal; his sufferings, self-imposed; his existence is a parody, and he ends—with suicide." And she goes on to say, "Evil was, and is, the illusion of breaking the First Commandment, 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me.'" Obviously, then, obedience to the First Commandment overcomes confusion of thought and the temptation to fear evil. Those who realize the presence of Love, which overcomes fear, are safe.

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