Editorial October 14, 1950 Issue

OIL FOR THE TORCH OF FREEDOM

Richard J. Davis

Freedom and slavery are two words that are and should be increasingly important in the thought of everyone today. The pressure of world events is forcing us to consider and appraise the heritage of freedom, which many people have taken too much for granted, and which from now on may be more highly valued. If the meaning of freedom is not understood, it certainly will not be appreciated.

Paul said (II Cor. 3:17), "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty," indicating that the fount and source of real freedom is spiritual. Spiritual ideas were basic in the founding of the United States and are evident in all free democracies and peoples. The greatness of any nation, as well as its freedom, lies in the degree that Spirit governs the consciousness of its citizens. If spiritual ideals are lost in the worship of the gods of materiality, money, human power, and ease and pleasure in matter, they will have turned away from that which alone can give and preserve freedom.

Christian Science declares that man, as Mind's infinite idea, exists forever at the standpoint of permanent oneness with that Mind. Because of his coexistence with and inseparable realtionship to God, man is in the truest sense free. True knowledge is unfettered knowledge. It appears through reason and revelation, unfolding as man's individual consciousness. It is never imposed by some external authority.

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