Editorial June 26, 1948 Issue

THEY HUNGER FOR JUSTICE

Paul Stark Seeley

Because justice is a quality of causative Mind, God, Christian Science teaches that it must come to prevail in every detail of the life of the individual and in the laws and policies of nations. In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy names justice first in giving some of the attributes of God (see page 465, line 14). But how justice can be brought to light in human affairs is a question, the need to answer which becomes each day more imperative.

Something is going on in the consciousness of the human race more basic than the clash of two political ideologies. That something is the hunger of great masses of mankind for a fairer share in the fruit of their labor. This hunger and the determination to satisfy it are healthy signs. They are a challenge to the enlightened thinking of nations to see what is wrong in national and world economy and find the way to its correction.

If you or I were a peasant in one of the lands where there is the most ferment, barely eking out an existence, perhaps paying high and unjust land rent, and with little or no share for ourselves or our dear ones in the things that represent security, comfort, education, and progress, our thought might be fertile ground for the theories of those promising an improved state of life. We might not stop to ask if that improvement were being bought at too high a price. We might not even be greatly impressed by the thought that while the democratic way of solving economic injustices is often slow, it does preserve the right of the individual to govern himself and to live and worship according to his highest light. Our immediate hunger for what we felt was a decent standard of living might easily blind us to the factors that would produce a balanced judgment as between democracy and totalitarianism.

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