Article January 3, 1976 Issue

Where Is Justice?

FRANCES ELMINA BROWN

Faced with this question, many would answer, nowhere!

Christian Science challenges this negative assertion. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy refers to justice as an attribute of God. See Science and Health, p. 465; Since God is infinite Mind, and everything that is real is Mind's manifestation, justice must be infinite and ever present. The source of the illusion that man is separated from justice is the claim of a material universe—of a mortal man formed by and born into matter and separated from God. Man, created in God's image, necessarily includes justice as an attribute of God, Mind. Infinite Mind makes man and causes him to embody Mind's qualities. When the Pharisees asked Christ Jesus when the kingdom of God would come, he answered, "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17:21;

When we are tempted to believe in the illusion that man is mortal and separated from justice, or that some person or thing is responsible for this separation, we should remember the Master's words. Let's resist the temptation to believe either that justice is "here"—limited to someone's acts—or that it must be found "there" in some needed legal process. We begin to set mankind free from the merciless bondage of injustice as we know the truth that God's idea, the spiritual selfhood of individual man, includes His attributes and qualities. Understanding this, we cannot be mesmerized into believing anyone is separated from his eternal source. Mrs. Eddy tells us, "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration." Science and Health, p. 259;

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