Article October 22, 1955 Issue

THE TRUE SENSE OF JUDGMENT

FLORENCE ADAMS MC GILL

It is natural for intelligent people to form an impression about happenings, especially those pertaining to themselves; it is also most necessary for Christian Scientists to lift their thoughts from criticism to true judgment. A critical opinion may be a material view of a situation, but true judgment is based on spiritual discernment.

In many references in the Bible judgment is mentioned as an attribute of God. In Psalms we read (89:14), "Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne." One who understands that man, God's likeness, is the true spiritual man spoken of in the first chapter of Genesis, reflects this quality of judgment. Jesus said (John 5: 30), "As I hear, I judge," indicating that he was aware of the need for exercising this faculty. He also said (John 8:16), "And yet if I judge, my judgment is true." He knew that his thinking was always at one with his Father, the one Mind, God.

Mary Baker Eddy describes Jesus' ability to read the mind of mortals thus (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 94, 95): "Our Master read mortal mind on a scientific basis, that of the omnipresence of Mind. An approximation of this discernment indicates spiritual growth and union with the infinite capacities of the one Mind. Jesus could injure no one by his Mind-reading. The effect of his Mind was always to heal and to save, and this is the only genuine Science of reading mortal mind."

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