Article August 6, 1949 Issue

"JUDGE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT"

ANNE R. ADAMS

When the master Christian, Christ Jesus, was defending his healing of the impotent man on the Sabbath, he said to the Jews (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." The Master never judged after the evidence of the physical senses. He listened for his Father's voice and perceived the truth of man and the universe. He did not see as real the suffering of those who sought his aid, because he looked away from the false material evidence and beheld man in the image and likeness of God. And by judging those who came to him in the light of spiritual understanding he healed and saved them.

Christian Scientists follow the teachings of Christ Jesus. They early learn that they cannot accept as true what the physical senses tell them. They find that physical sense is delusive, and that true understanding can be gained only through spiritual discernment. They learn to "judge righteous judgment," that is, to accept as real only such conclusions as come to them through communion with God and such as give evidence of God's perfectness and love. They listen for God's voice and strive to see only what God sees. With wisdom they turn from mortal pictures and search the realm of Mind for the truths of God and man.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick."

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