Editorial March 18, 1944 Issue

Setting the Captive Free

Evelyn F. Heywood

There is a door which is never closed, which stands wide open, leading into the sunshine and beauty of Soul, and it is the door of the spiritual senses. Once men perceive that their imprisonment behind the locked door of fear and suffering is but their own belief in a power apart from divine power, the bolts shoot back and the door swings, wide to freedom.

"Behold," we read in Revelation. "I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it." This is the forever voice of the Christ, assuring us of its mission as stated by Isaiah, reaffirmed by Jesus, and revealed in all its meaning by Mary Baker Eddy, "to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised."

Wherever the doors of tyranny and oppression have been closed and barred, they must swing wide open, that the liberating, revitalizing redeeming Christ may enter in. Whatever battles may have to be fought in the task of rescuing men, mentally and physically, from the mesmerism of evil, the only ultimate purpose is that the captive may be delivered, the blind may come, out of darkness, and those bruised in the conflict may be set free.

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