Article November 26, 1979 Issue

A reason for confidence

EDWARD C. WILLIAMS

Today many people's faith in human institutions and government is shaken. This lack of confidence signals the need for a higher faith—a faith in God, based on an understanding of Him and His control of His spiritual creation.

When there's a decline in faith in Deity the effect on society is a gradual erosion of confidence in the superiority of good, in the triumph of right, and in mankind's inherent nobility. The pursuit of justice and freedom falters before a creeping cynicism. Public confidence and an understanding faith in God go together, and without them freedom declines.

Divine Spirit, infinite Love, has made all things spiritual and perfect, and maintains them so. Mrs. Eddy writes: "The government of divine Love is supreme. Love rules the universe, and its edict hath gone forth: 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' Let us have the molecule of faith that removes mountains,—faith armed with the understanding of Love, as in divine Science, where right reigneth."^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 278;}