Editorial November 30, 1957 Issue

GOD'S JUSTICE

Helen Wood Bauman

However mortal experience may obscure God's justice, that justice is a universal fact. Being universal, justice is available to all. By means of it, all good is possible of achievement. But to avail oneself of divine justice, one must understand its relation to God's law. Mary Baker Eddy makes these remarkable statements in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 391): "Justice is the moral signification of law. Injustice declares the absence of law."

It is obvious that one must obey divine law in order to benefit fully by its just provision and government. Christian Science explains divine law as the only law and proves its supremacy over every unjust repression that mortals may encounter, over so-called forces of matter, diseased beliefs, political tyranny, economic conditions, inherited tendencies, and personal domination. Always, God's will is the only real law, and His will is just.

In the kingdom of heaven, where God reigns supreme, infinite good is reflected by man, God's spiritual son. Nothing good is withheld from any child of the Father, and this impartial order is the divine justice. In the human realm, we find much to contradict God's will, but justice has never actually been reversed or overthrown; it has only been hidden temporarily by the corporeal senses, which give no evidence of what is really going on.

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