Article August 17, 1940 Issue

"Judge not"

JANET MC CORMICK-GOODHART

HOW patient was Christ Jesus with his followers, and how tenderly desirous that their unity in Spirit be understood and preserved! How wise is his counsel, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment"! In "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy, our Leader, herself so deeply honest a follower of the Master, writes (p. 290), "When will the world cease to judge of causes from a personal sense of things, conjectural and misapprehensive!"

Prayerfully, Mrs. Eddy desired that her followers experience the true sense of harmony in their work together for the Cause of Christian Science. People seem so apt to make snap judgments that cause temporary friction and separation—judgments that are false and could not possibly stand in the light of divine Love. A student of Christian Science knows that there is only one standard by which to see and measure man—the standard of perfection.

Man, the perfect effect of perfect cause, must be upright, whole, pure. Perfection includes all loveliness, loveableness; all right qualities, such as grace, poise, beauty, kindness, honestly, activity. If one seems to express something contrary to man's true, Godlike nature, a Christian Scientist need not magnify the error, but rather must nullify it, for to spiritual understanding all that is present is some precious manifestation of God. Often when one is tempted to judge a brother, he fails to take into account the difference in human experiences and environments. Everyone must prove the nothingness of material personality and the presence of spiritual identity step by step. We accept Christian Science in the place where it finds us, and we begin to work out our salvation from that point of our experience.

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