Article February 27, 1926 Issue

Limitations Overcome

FREDDA R. GRATKE

One bright summer day some little children were making an experiment, an experiment which pointed a lesson. A little bug had crawled upon the table on the lawn and a pencil line was drawn around it. To the tiny creature the line seemed an impassable barrier, and it went round and round within the line, vainly looking for an opening, not realizing that what seemed to it to be an obstruction was only a mark over which it could easily have passed.

How often we experience in life a sense of bondage and limitation only because we believe we see a barrier to progress where none really exists! An example of just such a seeming bondage once came under the notice of the writer. A young man who had left his home to accept a position in another town was expressing regret that his family would have to remain in the old home until the following summer. Upon being asked why the separation was deemed necessary, he explained that he owned the house in which they lived, and just before deciding to leave he had put in a whole winter's supply of wood; hence he felt they should remain there till the wood was used up so as not to entail that loss. It was at once pointed out to him that any one who would rent the house would certainly pay full value for the wood, a self-evident conclusion which had evidently not occurred to him. He and his family were actually binding themselves to a woodpile with self-made cords. Like the little bug on the table, they saw a limitation where no limitation existed. To how many woodpiles are we tied? Truly we forge our own chains through the ignorance that so-called mortal mind alone sees as limitations; while to God, divine Mind, there can be no bondage, no limitation, and man, His image and likeness, is free.

On page 227 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science, our beloved Leader writes, "Citizens of the world, accept the 'glorious liberty of the children of God,' and be free!" Now what have we to do in order to accept this "liberty of the children of God"? Since it is human belief that is responsible for a sense of limitation, the student of Christian Science must realize that whatever the problem may be which presents itself, it is in the realm of thought alone that the correct solution must be sought.

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