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 The soul then hungers and thirsts no more, for she has her true food. ' My meat is to do the will of him that sent me,’ said the Saviour, ‘that I may perfect his work.' This, therefore, is what Christ calls ‘ all justice ’: — to accomplish in all things the perfectly just will of our Heavenly Father, and to make it the rule of our own wills also in everything. But when we do the will of God, He will do ours. The Psalmist sang: 'He will do the will of those who fear him,’ and thus he will satisfy all their desires. Blessed are those who desire justice as eagerly as they long for meat and drink when they are exhausted with hunger and thirst; for then shall they be filled. With what, indeed, should we be filled if not with justice? We shall be partly satisfied even in this life; for the just man will become more just, and the holy man more holy in return for his eager longing; but perfect satisfaction will come in heaven, where eternal justice will be given to us, together with the fulness of the love of God. 'I shall be satisfied,’ declares the Psalmist, 'when Thy glory shall appear.’

But are we always to thirst for justice? Our Saviour said to the Samaritan woman, 'He who