Editorial June 30, 1962 Issue

The Price of Liberty

Carl J. Welz

An early American patriot helped to encourage a nation to gain its freedom by stating the price he was willing to pay for it. "Give me liberty," he said, "or give me death!" When the Apostle Paul's friends begged him not to go to Jerusalem, fearing that he would be captured and bound, Paul answered (Acts 21: 13), "I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

To the American patriot death was the alternative to freedom. To Paul there was no alternative, for freedom and life in Christ were to him synonymous. This life was indestructible. As Christ Jesus said (John 11:26), "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."

Christian Science teaches that liberty is mental. It can never be found in the flesh, in material circumstances or conditions, but only in Christ, Truth. God is Spirit, and man is the image of Spirit. God is Love, and man is the reflection of Love. God is Mind, and man is the idea of Mind. God is Principle, and man has his origin and existence in Principle. The perfection of God is the perfection of man; the health of God is the health of man; the immortality of God is the immortality of man. The oneness, or unity, of God and man constitutes both life and liberty.

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