Article July 14, 1934 Issue

Freedom

CORINNE M. MC CONNICO

Certain Jews who had listened to Jesus' discourses and "believed on him" were nevertheless quite astounded by his declaration, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Startled and indignant, perhaps, they replied, "We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?" Jesus then proceeded to tell them that "whosoever committeth sin" is in bondage to sin. Continuing, he said, "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." Jesus, of course, was not referring to any human or political influence or power as able to set them free, but to the understanding of God which he had been teaching and demonstrating before them, and which would bring them freedom greater than they had yet dreamed of.

Today there are many who would be equally shocked to hear it declared of them that they need freeing, their thought has not yet awakened to the fact that they are submitting to unnecessary bondage to evil in various forms. There are also many who—thanks to Christian Science—have come to know and experience something of that spiritual freedom to which Jesus referred, that which is freedom indeed.

It is not unusual to hear one say today, "Oh, I believe in Christian Science, but I do not need it." What a mistaken sense is this! Whether or not he realizes his need, there is no human being who does not need Christian Science, that is who does not need the right concept of God which it reveals, because there is no man, woman, or child who is not touched by the belief in evil in some form—as either sickness, sin, limitation, sorrow, or other of the myriad forms in which evil presents itself to human consciousness. Assuredly, as Mrs. Eddy says in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 323), "When the sick or the sinning awake to realize their need of what they have not they will be receptive of divine Science, which gravitates towards Soul and away from material sense, removes thought from the body, and elevates even mortal mind to the contemplation of something better than disease or sin."

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