Article September 8, 1956 Issue

LIBERATION

MARY BARNES

"Truth brings the elements of liberty. On its banner is the Soul-inspired motto, 'Slavery is abolished.' The power of God brings deliverance to the captive. No power can withstand divine Love." These ringing words are to be found on page 224 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Farther on in the same paragraph she writes (p. 225): "Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes man free."

The realization that enslavement "is opposed to the divine government" creates in us a spirit of rebellion against every appearance or mode of captivity which presents itself in human experience. Recognizing that any form of bondage is a contradiction of divine law or true being, we can set about freeing ourselves and others from the seeming mesmerism of the material senses, no matter what its form or how long the slavery seems to have existed. The understanding and acknowledgment of freedom as man's divine birthright, the present and forever fact of his being as the child of Spirit, God, are potent to liberate from every phase of captivity.

So important did our Leader consider the subject of liberty that she devotes several pages to it in Science and Health in the chapter entitled "Footsteps of Truth." In these pages may be found the statements quoted above. There also one finds a call to the world's citizens to rise and claim their God-bestowed freedom as the heirs of all good and to refuse any longer to be the victims of corporeal sense.

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