Article August 14, 1948 Issue

WINNING FREEDOM IN GOD'S WAY

LINDEN E. JONES

Nearly two thousand years ago the following incident took place when Paul was in prison in Jerusalem (Acts 22:27, 28): "The chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said. But I was free born."

The soldier had purchased with much money the liberties vouchsafed at that time to a Roman citizen. On the other hand, Paul, knowing his rights as a son of a Roman, declared himself to be free born. Christian Science teaches that man is created in God's own image, as the Bible declares, and that boundless freedom is his inalienable birthright as the spiritual reflection of God.

Today, freedom from want and fear, deliverance from disease and sin, can be obtained, but not for the sum of silver and gold. The price to be paid for this liberation is our willingness to sacrifice the false concepts of a humanly circumscribed God and of a mortal universe and man. Abandoning that which is false enables us to accept that which is true, even the spiritual idea of God and man, which Christian Science brings to light.

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