Editorial June 11, 1949 Issue

RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT

Helen Wood Bauman

Christ Jesus counseled his followers to judge righteous judgment, and he warned them that their own judgments would judge them. On one occasion he said (John 5:30), "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me."

Christian Science explains the Master's judgments as based upon the evidence he gained from spiritual discernment—evidence of God as the only Father of man and of man as the Father's perfect spiritual son. It was his discernment of spiritual facts that gave him spiritually scientific judgment and made his judgments invariably righteous. He could mediate between the real and the unreal, the spiritual and the material, because he was so deeply conscious of God's kingdom. He could evaluate the vagaries of flesh and matter as illusion because of his familiarity with the substance which is Spirit. His decisions were evidenced in healing and reformation, for they brought to light the will of God as the creative, governing law of the universe. And the Master's works judged him. They proved the purity of his thoughts and the truthfulness of his declarations that man is the son of God.

Mary Baker Eddy corrects the false theological doctrine of a final judgment day when she writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 291), "No final judgment awaits mortals, for the judgment-day of wisdom comes hourly and continually, even the judgment by which mortal man is divested of all material error." Christian Science brings the righteous judgment which proves the presence and reality of embodied good, and the illusory nature of matter and inharmony which is without identity or the support of divine Mind. It judges the world of matter to be unreal, the belief of a false mortal mind, which is itself an unreal belief. Science appraises this false belief as one evil, as impersonal and suppositional, and thus it judges "the prince of this world" (John 12:31) and casts out the delusion of many minds.

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