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LIBERTY
This cheering word expresses a divine sentiment, and the love of it stands for the greatest human progress yet attained. It points to and is correlated with the saying of Jesus, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." While it may be true that crimes due to the greed and avarice of depraved mortals have been committed in the name of liberty, yet it nevertheless stands for a widening of the bounds of freedom. Liberty is opposed to slavery, subjection, or bondage of every nature whatsoever, and perfectly understood it means a complete independence from external causes or motives, wherein thought remains unbiased by rules and dogma.
Jesus came, in fulfilment of prophecy, to set the oppressed at liberty, and St. James refers in his epistle to "the perfect law of liberty." St. Paul admonishes his followers: "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free," and he further declares that "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." Of old the psalmist sang, "I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts." Personal liberty, national liberty, liberty of thought, has cost and is costing a vast amount of endurance, suffering, and treasure. Contrast, if you will, the broad, permanent foundation of liberty now being established throughout the world by the true "embodiment of right thinking," which abolishes "mental slavery" (Science and Health, p. 225) and demonstrates "on earth peace, good will toward men," with the price of liberty on a much lower plane of existence, as here pictured by Henry Giles:—

July 3, 1909 issue
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"UNDERSTANDEST THOU WHAT THOU READEST?"
SAMUEL GREENWOOD.
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THE MASTER'S SERVICE
EDITH L. IVES.
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
ALICE L. NICHOLS.
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SINCERITY
FLORENCE ELLIOTT.
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LIBERTY
GEORGE W. WILSON.
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A CHILD'S FAITH
ELLA T. GEORGESON.
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The resurrection symbolizes to Christian Scientists the...
W. C. Williams
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Our critic says that "religious healing must take into...
J. V. Dittemore
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Christian Science is here to stay
Walter Sickels
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Christian Science teaches and proves sickness as well as...
Algernon Hervey-Bathurst
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More than a million who have been lifted from beds...
Gray Montgomery
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Among other subjects our critic plunges lightly into...
Frederick Dixon
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AMONG THE CHURCHES
with contributions from Abraham Lincoln
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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DEDICATION OF CHURCH IN LONDON
Editor with contributions from Mary Baker Eddy, Mabel S. Thomson, W. S. Montgomery Smith
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A NEW BY-LAW
Editor
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"CONSISTENCY, THOU ART A JEWEL."
Archibald McLellan
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THE RETURNS OF GRATITUDE
John B. Willis
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LETTERS TO OUR LEADER
with contributions from Mary Brookins, Frank Chaney, Jeanie W. Robbins, Lawrence, Maude Addison, Lynn Lloyd Rowan, Maud Mary Jennings, Mary Wood Griffiths, Cora P. Hill, Edward W. Dickey, Board of Directors and Trustees, August Kahn
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from James H. Davidson, F. G. Underwood, W. K. Bartels
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For over three years I have been a student of Christian Science,...
Florence H. Geary
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I had suffered for many years with several diseases...
Sarah R. Woods
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I am very grateful for what Christian Science has done...
E. Denison with contributions from Sarah D. Sassaman
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I feel deeply grateful to our heavenly Father, and to...
Oscar E. Preston
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About seven years ago I became acquainted with Christian Science
Frau J. Pawelczyk
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I was taken very ill in July, 1906
Garrett C. Rucker
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About seven years ago my little boy, then nearly three...
H. H. Blackley
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Something over twenty years ago, I became interested...
Henry W. Morgan
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Hoping that this testimony will be a help to others who...
J. B. Cheatham
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I would like to tell how Christian Science helped me...
Charles Nevins
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WATCH!
KATHARINE T. PORTER.
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from G. B. F. Hallock, Charles F. Aked