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Justice and Mercy
"Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face." Thus wrote the Psalmist in proclaiming the praise of the Almighty. Men who have believed in God have almost universally accepted the concept of Him as a God of justice. Many have also believed Him to be merciful. They have not, however, always understood that one of these qualities is practically valueless unless associated with the other, and that they are invariably united in the Mind which is God.
The human sense of justice, on the other hand, is apt to know little if anything of mercy. "The rendering to every one his due," is the most common definition of justice; and its fulfillment often appears to produce veritable Shylocks. Moses' precept, "eye for eye, tooth for tooth," was apparently the highest type of justice understood and expressed in the early Levitical days; and even in this more enlightened age mankind still believes that what it calls retribution is just and right. Consequently, much of the same unmerciful element is to be seen to-day in the expression of what is known as human justice.

January 29, 1927 issue
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"Unselfed love"
IVA B. LINEBARGER
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Protection versus Self-Will
GERTRUDE S. PERKINS
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Democracy
HAROLD FARMER HALL
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Forward, Christian Scientists!
LAURA SPENCER DOW
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"If ... thine eye be single"
E. HOWARD GILKEY
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True Happiness
OLIVE M. PRICE
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With reference to the editorial in your recent issue, commenting...
Arthur P. De Camp, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,
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Members of the Christian Science church have no desire...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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For the information of your readers, kindly allow me...
Stephen J. Sametz, Committee on Publication for the Province of Manitoba, Canada,
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The Goal
MINNY M. H. AYERS
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Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for the Year Ended September 30, 1926
Henry Van Dyke
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True Worship
Albert F. Gilmore
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God's Pardon
Duncan Sinclair
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Justice and Mercy
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Bernard Joseph Hinkle, Emil Haupt, Herman P. Thomas, Walter Alfred Tanner
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Nearly four years ago, when I was very much discouraged,...
Marie Antoinette Legros-Barbe with contributions from Ernest Legros
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In the fall of 1916, after experiencing, as I believed,...
Olive A. DeCamp
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Eleven years ago I turned to Christian Science for physical...
Walsworth T. Dimmick
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I feel that the time has come for me to testify to the...
Harriet McKenzie
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For ten years I was an invalid, under the care of various...
Lelia B. Gregory
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"The redeemed should be happier than the elect," Mrs. Eddy...
Louise Eleanor Chapman
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About four years ago I received my first introduction to...
Louisa Elizabeth Gasson
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Christian Science is the "pearl of great price" to me,...
Gladys E. Smith
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Love Divine
THEODORE ALBERT SCHROEDER
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from E. M. Cotton, Canon Anthony C. Deane