Editorial April 1, 1950 Issue

EMANCIPATORS

Robert Ellis Key

Inherent in every normal individual is the love of liberty Slavery is abhorrent to those who have tasted freedom, and the strive to break their fetters by every means within their power. The men and women who have helped to abolish human bondage shine like beacon lights along the highway of history. They are to be found in many fields of endeavor, religious, legislative, and scientific. Great emancipators have often met with stubborn opposition, because the tendency of the human or mortal mind is to resist change and cling to selfish and acquisitive methods.

At one time navigators were afraid to sail the uncharted ocean lest they should come to the rim of the earth and fall over the edge. Ignorance spells limitation; enlightenment sweeps it away.

Moses, the Hebrew Lawgiver, was a great emancipator, a meek man with a mighty purpose. His love for God and man gave him the strength and wisdom to lead his people out of the bondage of Egypt and frame a code of commandments for their safety, a code which today, many thousands of years later, forms the framework of our common law.

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