Article June 30, 1973 Issue

Today's Crusade for Liberty

REGINALD EVELYN NICHOLLS

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Such are the famous words of the American Declaration of Independence.

It was not until almost a century later, however, that President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in the United States to be "thenceforward, and forever free." This was some thirty years after Great Britain had abolished Negro slavery in her dominions.

In Science and Health, under the marginal heading "Liberty's crusade," is Mrs. Eddy's statement: "The voice of God in behalf of the African slave was still echoing in our land, when the voice of the herald of this new crusade sounded the keynote of universal freedom, asking a fuller acknowledgment of the rights of man as a Son of God, demanding that the fetters of sin, sickness, and death be stricken from the human mind and that its freedom be won, not through human warfare, not with bayonet and blood, but through Christ's divine Science."^{Science and Health, p. 226;}

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