Article August 5, 1939 Issue

Finding Freedom

BESSIE B. MC APLINE

"I love Thy way of freedom, Lord." Thus begins one of the inspiring hymns in the revised Christian Science Hymnal. All men, deep in their hearts, love freedom. The desire for it is inherent in the human heart. All are not agreed, however, as to the exact nature of freedom or the method by which it may be individually attained.

To the man or woman who has endured long, weary months of bondage to physical suffering, freedom might well mean relief from such an unhappy condition, and, in the effort to obtain relief, various material means may have been resorted to. The business man, faced with the threat of certain failure, might pin his hope of freedom on timely financial assistance; while the young person, chafind under what he considers undue parental restraint, possibly looks forward to the time when he will be free to choose his own course of conduct.

It will be noted that in the line quoted above it is not "my" way, but "Thy" way—God's way—of freedom that is specified. What is this divine way of freedom, and how may it be gained? How may all place themselves under its beneficent control? Experience brings the conviction that freedom, to be satisfying, must rest on a more secure basis than that afforded by the unreliable human will. It must be beyond the reach of self-will, self-seeking, and self-love.

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