There is an inherent sense of justice with every one which is expressed in efforts for healing the sick, protecting the weak, raising the fallen, comforting them that mourn, and in the general desire and struggle for fairness of purpose and squareness of conduct. As the standard of Christ becomes better understood, the sense of justice is higher, more clarified, more transparent for Truth's intelligent shining, and more lovingly practical for helping humanity.
Many times in the Bible there is reference to God's being just, and Jesus was spoken of as "the Just One." Herod's wife warned him against harming "that just man." Such a perception of the great Galilean's character appeared as the one outstanding, redeeming feature of Herod's family, and it may have brought regeneration to some members of the household, even as it did to the malefactor who, about to be hanged beside Jesus, said. "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." and to whom Jesus replied, "To day shall thou be with me in paradise."
For, indeed, justice is a divine quality, healing, illumining, energizing, saving, when imbued with the Christspirit. Jesus' emphasis of the Golden Rule meant square-dealing conjoined with brotherly love; and that is what Christian Science reemphasizes.
