Article July 31, 1937 Issue

"Thy way of freedom"

HARRY B. MAC RAE

The desire for freedom is universal. It is a concomitant of the desire for life, and is sought in as many ways as there are concepts of what it is. The only way truly to obtain it is set forth in the words of Christ Jesus, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in a lucid statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," indicates the process of right thinking through the application of spiritual truth, which is available to all. She says (p. 269), "Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul."

His experiences as an aviator during the World War provided a student with many opportunities to prove that "metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul." The lessons thus learned have since been most helpful to him in the solving of difficult problems, both for himself and for others.

One of these experiences, his first flight upward through a heavy layer of clouds, was to him a most impressive one. On the ground, the day was a dark and misty one. Taking off, and pointing the nose of his ship upward, he soon became enveloped in the even more dense and impenetrable mist of the cloud layer itself. Continuing his upward course, however, he suddenly emerged into the beauty and brilliance of a perfectly clear atmosphere. The sun shining undimmed overhead, and underneath, the fleecy white cloud-tops spreading out in all directions like a billowing sea, formed a resplendent scene of grandeur and glory, the more amazing and inspiring because of its sharp contrast with the dark earthscene just left behind. The remarkable sense of freedom inspired by this transition would be hard to describe.

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