Justice through reliance on prayer

By Louis Mulumba Mwamba

In April 1984, Christian Science came into my life while I was working in a shoe factory in Kinshasa, and at the same time taking a religious course by correspondence to become a pastor. I abandoned this course shortly after I started to study Christian Science as I found this teaching very appealing to me. Since then, I have had many blessings, which if recounted would take many pages.

Not long after I had been offered a copy of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, a problem broke out at our factory. The workers were unhappy with their wages. They believed that the personnel manager was influencing the owners of the company, all whites, not to increase workers’ salaries. So, they wanted him out. The manager claimed that he was innocent. The atmosphere was tense and attempted mediations failed.

I had read testimonies in The Herald of Christian Science showing that similar situations had been resolved through prayer as practiced in Christian Science. I read many pages in Science and Health, and I pondered most the ideas found on page 340, some of which are as follows: “One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself;’ annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry,—whatever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.”

I also read verses from the Bible relating to peace, harmony, and truth. John’s Gospel speaks of Christ Jesus’ teaching that “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32, New King James Version). I also prayed about justice. Many Bible verses refer to God as a just God. He does not allow any cheating. One proverb states, “Honest weights and scales are the Lord’s” (Prov. 16:11, NKJV). I understood that in God, there is no injustice and felt confident that the workers would receive fair treatment. The personnel manager was also praying on his own, and he knew that I was praying too.

Shortly after this, the company manager called a meeting with all the workers, and told them that he was the only decision maker and that the personnel manager had nothing to do with how salaries were allocated. He also agreed to raise salaries a little bit. That made everyone happy, and harmony was back.

I felt so good about this healing as it strengthened me in my study of Christian Science, and established me firmly on the fact that Christian Science practice is about the application of God’s laws.

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