Article June 16, 1973 Issue

The Joy of Justice

ELAINE HIBBARD ROBINSON

Like all heavenly gifts, genuine, spontaneous, overflowing joy comes in a way least looked for—through justice and righteousness.

Many people associate justice with punishment. The whole subject seems to them a somber one; they try to turn away from it. Yet justice is one of the primary attributes of God, universal and infinite divine Love. We can't get away from justice, but we can find out that in turning toward it we will have deep and permanent happiness.

Mrs. Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, "In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above what it reflects, all is one grand concord."^{Science and Health, p. 240;} This Science opens to us a living sense of God's kingdom as the stupendous manifestation of divine Principle operating according to perfect laws and expressing good alone. Everything in the creation of divine Love is entirely spiritual—actual, genuine, exact, and ever present. It is a beautiful, light-filled, harmonious universe. Nothing is wrong in it, and nothing goes wrong in it.