Article August 27, 1955 Issue

THE MIGHTY MISSION OF EMANCIPATION

MARION D. MAC CANN

Since man lives, he must have a place in which to live. We learn from the Scriptures that God is Spirit, and we understand therefrom that God is All; thus it is evident that man, as God's creation, must be spiritual and that he must be included in the spiritual universe. In reality man lives in the realm of Spirit.

Humanly, we appear to live in a material world. And at present the place we consider to be the world seems to be a caldron of strife or, to change the figure, a maze of confusion. Moreover, mortals clamor that there is no individual or government wise enough to save it.

On page 11 of "The People's Idea of God" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "The lame, the blind, the sick, the sensual, are slaves, and their fetters are gnawing away life and hope; their chains are clasped by the false teachings, false theories, false fears, that enforce new forms of oppression, and are the modern Pharaohs that hold the children of Israel still in bondage." A sick world, suffering from all forms of imprisonment, cries out for release from hopelessness. And to this world situation the Comforter is come as Christian Science! The comfort of the message of the Christ is not an assuagement, an amelioration, alone, but an enlightenment of such clarity that it destroys hopelessness.

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