Editorial September 22, 1951 Issue

UNIVERSAL JUSTICE

Helen Wood Bauman

Justice is a universal fact. It characterizes God's will, and His will is the omnipresent law of being. Christian Science demonstrates justice because this Science is divine law, and justice is evident in every scientific proof that God's will is the supreme law of Life. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 391): "Justice is the moral signification of law. Injustice declares the absence of law."

Justice expresses the rightfulness of all that divine Principle, God, creates, and the love of it is inherent in man, who is the expression of Principle. No boast of the so-called carnal mind to hold men in depths and stages of ignorance has succeeded in wholly obscuring to human apprehension the love of justice. An appreciation of it is sometimes discovered even in aborigines who have had no ethical or moral education. Often devotion to it is found in countries whose present laws and courts afford little certainty that justice will be available to their inhabitants.

A Christian judge assigned to a post in a non-Christian land under his country's rule won the deep respect of certain natives, who learned that they could not buy judgments in his court. He made them realize that compensation is something that must be deserved. So greatly did they revere him that after his retirement they often made journeys to his distant home to discuss their problems with him; and this they did almost in the spirit of a sacred pilgrimage. So profound is the love of justice among men, so natural to thought!

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