![Bookmark Saving](/bundles/mugosentineldigital/images/loading_black_80.gif)
![Folders Loading](/bundles/mugosentineldigital/images/loading_black_80.gif)
Are you sure?
This bookmark will be removed from all folders and any saved notes will be permanently removed.
Overcoming Confusion of Thought
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.
Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.
![](/mediafile/file/scans/SEN/SEN_1939_041_37/SEN_1939_041_37_0001_thumb_medium.jpg)
May 13, 1939 issue
View Issue-
Man versus Human Personality
ALBERT F. GILMORE
-
"Thine is the kingdom"
LAURA DUNBAR HAGARTY
-
"They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament"
ELFRIEDE HOFFMANN
-
Practical Demonstration
JOSEPHINE IRENE FENTON
-
Overcoming Confusion of Thought
JOHN F. WADDINGTON
-
"Up into a mountain"
NORMA STREBLER
-
Your Joy
ALICE CORTRIGHT
-
Dawn
MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL
-
In a recent issue I read with interest an article by a...
Marcel G. Silver, Committee on Publication for France,
-
In a recent issue you report an interesting and able...
B. Palmer Lewis, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
-
In a recent issue of Y Cymro, reference was made to...
Lt.-Col. Robert E. Key, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
-
Entertaining Angels
MARION ALICE BOWERS
-
"They that are whole"
George Shaw Cook
-
"Ruler in Israel"
Evelyn F. Heywood
-
From the Directors
William Wallace Porter
-
The Lectures
with contributions from Margot Emma Frey, Kate A. Pieratt
-
It is with deep and sincere gratitude that I thank God...
John Arthur Moore
-
Deep gratitude impels me to testify to the following...
Mina Walliser-Lang
-
I became interested in Christian Science several years...
Mildred Nelson Engel
-
I am very grateful for a healing which took place about...
Margaret Milligan with contributions from Jack Milligan
-
Many years ago I became interested in Christian Science...
Lulu E. Woessner
-
I wish to express my gratitude for a healing which took...
Annie Maude Lowden
-
I feel that I owe a great debt of gratitude to God for what...
James H. Colbert
-
Today
LILLIAN D. AULD
-
Signs of the Times
with contributions from Thomas W. H. Inskip, Murray H. Leiffer, James Quigley, W. H. Armstrong
-
ANNOUNCEMENTS
with contributions from HARRY I. HUNT