Article February 19, 1921 Issue

Suffrage

FOLLETTE BROTHERTON

Christian Science in its infinite variety is declared and manifested in any and all forms of activity. The leaven of Truth, taught by Christian Science, is in operation to-day, just as it was centuries ago, when Jesus gave to the disciples the parable in which he likened the kingdom of heaven "unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavvened." It is interesting to observe that, in this parable, a woman contributed to the leavening of the whole; and it is a woman, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, and the Founder of the Christian Science organization, who has given to this age the leaven with which to leaven the whole; and this leaven is manifestly in operation to-day.

The absolute truth, as taught by Christian Science, frees mankind from sin, sickness, and death. Death, a belief of inactivity, is destroyed by Truth, which teaches and proves that in the real universe there exists only spiritual activity; therefore inactivity, the antipode of activity, cannot exist. Christian Science has unfolded the fact that man is made in the image and likeness of God, that God made all that was made, and that He endowed and blessed man with unbounded rights, privileges, and opportunities. Since God has endowed man without limit, it naturally follows that man and woman have equal rights.

Man is not a lawmaker, but the reflection of the one law-making by God. A man, then, cannot make laws that limit and bind; he cannot create laws which hold him, as well as woman, in bondage. Ignorance of right and of God's law has seemed to hold both men and women in bondage for centuries, to the laws that men thought they had a right to make and to enforce; but, as the truth of law is revealed, it sets men and women free from restraints imposed by material laws and conventions.

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