We need solid convictions. Convictions based on truth, on spiritual understanding of God, of God's man and God's universe. If we heed the New Testament teaching (Phil. 2:5), "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus," we shall be thoroughly convinced of what is true, and we shall be so filled with ideas which express good alone that we cannot be tempted to believe in the reality of evil, or be deceived or used by it.
Nothing seems more characteristic of our troubled times than the prevailing confusion of individuals and national governments. A quick survey of the cases of those charged with subversive activity shows much confusion, arising from false loyalties, mistaken concepts of freedom and equality, a wrong sense of progress. And this confusion results from the lack of sound convictions, lack of solid ideas.
Writing about the law of God as a moral force opposed to the so-called law of matter, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says of the latter (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 257), "It fosters suspicion where confidence is due, fear where courage is requisite, reliance where there should be avoidance, a belief in safety where there is most danger."
