How wondrous is Thy mercy, Lord,

How faithful is Thy kindness.

Thou gav’st the treasure of Thy Word;

That Word dispels all blindness.

Thou holdest all things in Thy sight,

For in Thy presence is no night,

And in Thy light shall we see light.

MATT. 5:10-12 NLT

God blesses those who are persecuted for doing right, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.

God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers. Be happy about it! Be very glad! For a great reward awaits you in heaven. Remember, the ancient prophets were persecuted in the same way.

Ps. 43:1-3

Declare me innocent, O God! Defend me against these ungodly people.

Rescue me from these unjust liars. For you are God . .. Send out your light and your truth;

Dan. 6:1-7, 9-10, 16, 19-23, 28

Darius the Mede decided to divide the kingdom into 120 provinces, and he . . . chose Daniel and two others as administrators . . . . Because of Daniel’s great ability, the king made plans to place him over the entire empire.

Then the other administrators and high officers began searching for some fault in the way Daniel was handling government affairs, but they couldn’t find anything to criticize or condemn. He was faithful, always responsible, and completely trustworthy. So they concluded, “Our only chance of finding grounds for accusing Daniel will be in connection with the rules of his religion.”

So the administrators and high officers went to the king and said, “Long live King Darius! We are all in agreement . . . that the king should make a law that ….for the next thirty days any person who prays to anyone, divine or human—except to you, Your Majesty—will be thrown into the den of lions. . . . . So King Darius signed the law.

[W]hen Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.

So the king gave orders for Daniel to be arrested and thrown into the den of lions. Very early the next morning, the king got up and hurried out to the lions’ den. When he got there, he called out in anguish, “Daniel, servant of the living God! Was your God, whom you serve so faithfully, able to rescue you from the lions?”

Daniel answered, “Long live the king! My God sent his angel to shut the lions’ mouths so that they would not hurt me, for I have been found innocent in his sight. And I have not wronged you, Your Majesty.” The king was overjoyed and ordered that Daniel be lifted from the den. Not a scratch was found on him, for he had trusted in his God. So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Dan. 2:20

“Praise the name of God forever and ever, for he has all wisdom and power. He controls the course of world events; he removes kings and sets up other kings.

Is. 33:22

For the lord is our judge, our lawgiver, and our king. He will care for us and save us.

II Kings 8:1-6

Elisha had told the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “Take your family and move to some other place, for the lord has called for a famine on Israel that will last for seven years.” So the woman did as the man of God instructed.

After the famine ended she returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to see the king about getting back her house and land. As she came in, . . . Gehazi was telling the king about the time Elisha had brought a boy back to life. . . .”Look, my lord the king!” Gehazi exclaimed. “Here is the woman now, and this is her son—the very one Elisha brought back to life!”

“Is this true?” the king asked her. And she told him the story. So he directed one of his officials to see that everything she had lost was restored to her, including the value of any crops that had been harvested during her absence.

Ps. 82:1

God presides over heaven’s court. He pronounces judgment . . . .

Ps. 146:7-8

He gives justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry. The lord frees the prisoners. The lord opens the eyes of the blind. The lord lifts up those who are weighed down.

Jer. 30:12-13, 17

“Your injury is incurable. . . . No medicine can heal you. I will give you back your health and heal your wounds,” says the lord.

Jer. 9:24

I am the lord who demonstrates unfailing love and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth.

Luke 13:10-17

One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, he saw a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit. She had been bent double for eighteen years and was unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Dear woman, you are healed of your sickness!” Then he touched her, and instantly she could stand straight. How she praised God!

But the leader in charge of the synagogue was indignant that Jesus had healed her on the Sabbath day. “There are six days of the week for working,” he said to the crowd. “Come on those days to be healed, not on the Sabbath.”

But the Lord replied, “You hypocrites! Each of you works on the Sabbath day! Don’t you untie your ox or your donkey from its stall on the Sabbath and lead it out for water? This dear woman, a daughter of Abraham, has been held in bondage by Satan for eighteen years. Isn’t it right that she be released, even on the Sabbath?”

This shamed his enemies, but all the people rejoiced at the wonderful things he did.

Gen. 18:25 KJV

Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

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SH 465:14-15

The attributes of God are justice, mercy, wisdom, goodness, and so on.

SH 106:7

God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.

SH 225:14-16

The history of our country, like all history, illustrates the might of Mind, and shows human power to be proportionate to its embodiment of right thinking.

SH 64:1-2

Want of uniform justice is a crying evil caused by the selfishness and inhumanity of man.

SH 239:5-12

Take away wealth, fame, and social organizations, which weigh not one jot in the balance of God, and we get clearer views of Principle. Break up cliques, level wealth with honesty, let worth be judged according to wisdom, and we get better views of humanity.

The wicked man is not the ruler of his upright neighbor.

SH 226:14-15

God has built a higher platform of human rights, and He has built it on diviner claims.

SH 381:2-4

Ignorant of our God-given rights, we submit to unjust decrees, and the bias of education enforces this slavery.

SH 381:10-16

We cannot in reality suffer from breaking anything except a moral or spiritual law. The so-called laws of mortal belief are destroyed by the understanding that Soul is immortal, and that mortal mind cannot legislate the times, periods, and types of disease, with which mortals die. God is the lawmaker, but He is not the author of barbarous codes.

SH 227:3, 30

I saw that the law of mortal belief included all error, and that, even as oppressive laws are disputed and mortals are taught their right to freedom, so the claims of the enslaving senses must be denied and superseded. The law of the divine Mind must end human bondage, or mortals will continue unaware of man’s inalienable rights and in subjection to hopeless slavery, because some public teachers permit an ignorance of divine power, — an ignorance that is the foundation of continued bondage and of human suffering.

If God had instituted material laws to govern man, disobedience to which would have made man ill, Jesus would not have disregarded those laws by healing in direct opposition to them and in defiance of all material conditions.

SH 369:16

Jesus never asked if disease were acute or chronic, and he never recommended attention to laws of health, never gave drugs, never prayed to know if God were willing that a man should live.

SH 391:17-24

Justice is the moral signification of law. Injustice declares the absence of law. When the body is supposed to say, “I am sick,” never plead guilty. Since matter cannot talk, it must be mortal mind which speaks; therefore meet the intimation with a protest. If you say, “I am sick,” you plead guilty. Then your adversary will deliver you to the judge (mortal mind), and the judge will sentence you.

SH 393:16-18

Be firm in your understanding that the divine Mind governs, and that in Science man reflects God’s government.

SH 127:25

[M]atter is not a lawgiver.

SH 28:6

The determination to hold Spirit in the grasp of matter is the persecutor of Truth and Love.

SH 381:20-24, 27

Think less of the enactments of mortal mind, and you will sooner grasp man’s God-given dominion. You must understand your way out of human theories relating to health, or you will never believe that you are quite free from some ailment. Let us banish sickness as an outlaw, and abide by the rule of perpetual harmony, — God’s law. It is man’s moral right to annul an unjust sentence, a sentence never inflicted by divine authority.

SH 390:12-18, 29

When the first symptoms of disease appear, dispute the testimony of the material senses with divine Science. Let your higher sense of justice destroy the false process of mortal opinions which you name law, and then you will not be confined to a sick-room nor laid upon a bed of suffering in payment of the last farthing, the last penalty demanded by error.

Meet the incipient stages of disease with as powerful mental opposition as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law. Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit. Blot out the images of mortal thought and its beliefs in sickness and sin. Then, when thou art delivered to the judgment of Truth, Christ, the judge will say, “Thou art whole!”

SH 430:17-24, 27-29

Suppose a mental case to be on trial, as cases are tried in court. A man is charged with having committed liver-complaint. The patient feels ill, ruminates, and the trial commences. Personal Sense is the plaintiff. Mortal Man is the defendant. False Belief is the attorney for Personal Sense. Mortal Minds, Materia Medica, Anatomy, Physiology, Hypnotism, Envy, Greed and Ingratitude, constitute the jury. . . . Judge Medicine is on the bench.

The evidence for the prosecution being called for, a witness testifies thus: —

I represent Health-laws.

SH 431:2-10

Notwithstanding my rules to the contrary, the prisoner watched with the sick every night in the week. . . . During all this time the prisoner attended to his daily labors, partaking of food at irregular intervals, sometimes going to sleep immediately after a heavy meal. At last he committed liver-complaint, which . . . is deemed punishable with death.

SH 433:1-3, 18-19, 31

The testimony for the plaintiff, Personal Sense, being closed, Judge Medicine arises, and . . . then proceeds to pronounce the solemn sentence of death upon the prisoner.

Ah! but Christ, Truth, the spirit of Life and the friend of Mortal Man, can open wide those prison doors and set the captive free. Swift on the wings of divine Love, there comes a despatch: “Delay the execution; the prisoner is not guilty.” Consternation fills the prison-yard. Some exclaim, “It is contrary to law and justice.” Others say, “The law of Christ supersedes our laws; let us follow Christ.”

SH 437:32-7

The attorney, Christian Science, then read from the supreme statute-book, the Bible, certain extracts on the Rights of Man, remarking that the Bible was better authority than Blackstone: —

Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion.

Behold, I give unto you power . . . over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

SH 441:33-8

We have no trials for sickness before the tribunal of divine Spirit. There, Man is adjudged innocent of transgressing physical laws, because there are no such laws. Our statute is spiritual, our Government is divine. “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

The Jury of Spiritual Senses agreed at once upon a verdict, and there resounded throughout the vast audience-chamber of Spirit the cry, Not guilty. Then the prisoner rose up regenerated, strong, free.

We lift our hearts in praise,

O God of Life, to Thee,

And would reflect in all our ways

Thy purity.

Thy thoughts our lives enfold,

And free us from all fear;

All strife is stilled, all grief consoled,

For Thou art here.

We lift our hearts in praise,

O God of Love, to Thee,

With joy to find through darkened days

Thy harmony.

O Father-Mother Love,

We triumph ‘neath Thy rod,

We glory in Thy light, and prove

That Thou art God.

To God compose a song of joy;

To God make melody,

Whose arm of strength does wondrous things,

Whose hand brings victory!

Before the nations God reveals

A just and righteous will,

Remembering in faithful love

The house of Israel.

In every corner of the earth,

God comes to save and free;

Break forth with shouts of holy joy;

All lands, make melody.

With trumpet, with the sound of horns,

With strings, yes, with the lyre,

With voices praise the sov’reign God,

O rousing, joyous choir.

Let seas in all their fullness roar,

And people of all lands,

Let mountains join and shout for joy,

Let rivers clap their hands.

Let earth make melody!