Article January 22, 1944 Issue

Are We Judging Righteous Judgment?

EUGENE HOLMES HOLLOWAY

The message of Christ Jesus in his parable of the Pharisee and the publican who went up into the temple to pray applies to all ages with startling directness. Referring to the publican who sought divine mercy, Jesus said, "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." It is obvious that we prove the presence of perfection, health, and freedom for ourselves and others proportionately as we demonstrate love and co-operation and cast out the unlovely arguments of prejudice, resentment, and unjust criticism. How careful we should be to guard against these traits in our home, our business, our church!

Moses, the lawgiver, admonished, "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour." Does any church worker cherish a feeling of resentment or hurt feelings? Let him strive to establish in his own thinking a true sense of love, loyalty, and a desire to serve, and he will bring into the church the benefit of his own experience. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy defines "Church" as "the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle;" and she adds, "The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick."

The Master, Christ Jesus, said: "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." Jesus, in his healings of disease, of limitation, and of the many discordant conditions with which he was confronted, never accepted a false argument. Had he judged according to appearances and believed in a power opposed to God, or in many minds, he would not have been able to heal sickness and sin. If we are annoyed by the faults and failings of our brother, it is time to examine our own thinking and see what it is in ourselves that responds to error with error—what we are accepting as real. There is much error, such as thoughts of irritation, prejudice, resentment, and hatred, which needs to be rooted out of our mental household; otherwise we should not find ourselves disturbed about something which has no reality and is no part of the real man of God's creating. And we must be alert to cast out thoughts of indifference, stagnation, and apathy.

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