Mankind generally looks upon justice as a human virtue. Consequently it believes justice to be inconstant—here today, gone tomorrow—and sometimes protests that there is no justice at all. Is it any wonder, then, that mankind believes itself afflicted, neglected, or forsaken? Those who have found Christian Science are grateful for the understanding it gives them of justice as an attribute of God, eternal Truth, hence inseparable from Him. They know that because God is omnipresent, justice is an ever-present fact, and this understanding enables them to demonstrate in their everyday affairs that justice, being of God, good, does not come and go, but is as invariable as the Father Himself.
Fundamentals of this Science are that God is universal Love and that His administration of His creation, man and the universe, is equitable, exact, and perfect. These truths have Biblical authority, for we read in the Scriptures (Deut. 32:4), "His work is perfect: ... a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." God, divine Love, is unfailingly impartial in His bestowal of good, and man, His idea, or reflection, is the recipient of His munificence. Every idea is equally endowed with the heavenly gifts of innocence, health, integrity, perfection, and dominion. Not one has more or less of good than another.
"But how can this possibly be claimed," one unfamiliar with Christian Science asks, "when deformity, disease, poverty, and sorrow are seen as the fate of some, and health, prosperity, and happiness as the lot of others? Surely there is no least semblance of equity or justice in this." Indeed not. Christian Science compassionately assures. Such discrimination denotes favoritism, and favoritism is not an impartation of divine Love. Throughout her writings Mary Baker Eddy reveals the creator of man and the universe as all-inclusive Life, divine Mind, outside of which nothing really exists. Material existence, with its conflicting conditions of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow, abundance and lack, she exposes, not as the truth of being, but instead as the misconception of life—foundationless and unreal.
