Article April 2, 1966 Issue

Freedom Is Natural

JOHN B. WEBB

Freedom has always been a cherished ideal in human experience. The constitutions of many countries are framed around the thought that the expression of this ideal should he available to all. Many governments are planned so that freedom from undesirable impositions, restrictions, persecutions, and fears is guaranteed, and freedom is provided for each individual to act in the way his conscience dictates.

Christian Science extends our concept of freedom. Freedom from restriction and imposition is a step beyond the usual implication of the word. Science teaches that man is not a mortal, dependent upon the whims of chance for his security and happiness, but that he is spiritual, made in the image and likeness of God, and has dominion over all the earth. His freedom, then, is divinely established. It is his by reflection, by virtue of his relationship with his supreme and infinite creator. The Psalmist recognized this and said, "Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet."^{Ps. 8:6;}

Christ Jesus proved man's dominion by bringing comfort to the needy and healing to the sick, the blind, and the lame. And practicing Christian Scientists the world over are proving in ever-increasing measure man's freedom from everything unlike God: freedom from fear, anger, lack, sickness, sensuality, and countless other would-be impositions of materiality.

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