Editorial March 15, 1947 Issue

In What Are We Confiding?

Margaret Morrison

In what am I confiding? This is a question one may frequently ask himself as he goes about his daily business of living, for consciously or unconsciously one is continually confiding in some power to sustain and govern him. Of paramount importance is the answer to this question, for on the right answer depends one's health, harmony, enlightenment, progress, and immortality.

If one fears evil, does it not signify that he has confidence in evil and ascribes to it power to accomplish its ends? Obviously one cannot believe in—have confidence in—two opposing factors at the same time. One either through fear of evil has confidence in evil or through love of good has confidence in good. To attempt to put confidence in both good and evil is to live in a state of uncertain balance without true poise, authority, or rest. Many indeed are the so-called ups and downs of the one attempting thus to balance good and evil. Christian Science offers a way out of this unstable sense of living and gives one an understanding of a changeless divine Principle, whose law is immutable, in which to confide; even the God of whom the Psalmist wrote when he apostrophized the "God of our salvation" as "the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea."

On page 368 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "The confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact that Truth is real and error is unreal." And later on the same page she continues, "When we come to have more faith in the truth of being than we have in error, more faith in Spirit than in matter, more faith in living than in dying, more faith in God than in man, then no material suppositions can prevent us from healing the sick and destroying error." Throughout all of her writings we find an authoritative assurance of immunity from evil for him who has unwavering confidence in God as All.

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