Editorial October 7, 1939 Issue

"The divine Arbiter"

Evelyn F. Heywood

Through prophetic insight the assurance came to Hosea that the Lord "will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely." But with it there came an even greater and more significant assurance for God's people in these words: "And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies."

This betrothal, this promise that men shall be united not only in right thinking, in love and mercy to each other, but also in judgment, establishes the fact that each decision shall be that of divine Mind and not of mortal mind's jurisdiction; that men will be delivered from the enforcement of oppressive tyrannies and cruel exactions, because the only sentence to be uttered, the only decree to be formulated will be that which manifests itself through the qualities of divine Love.

It was before this tribunal of divine justice that those came who sought the Christ. And the arbitrament of Jesus with regard to what was right or wrong never varied; it never failed to set them free. It brought them, in love and in mercy, the consciousness of their oneness with the Father. "All these deeds manifested Jesus' control over the belief that matter is substance, that it can be the arbiter of life or the constructor of any form of existence," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 369 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

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