Article June 29, 1974 Issue

No Prison Can Hold You

ARTHUR THORNTON MOREY

Some prisons have bars and walls; others, keeping mankind in bondage, are poverty, hatred, drug addiction, and many other conditions seemingly beyond control, such as chronic illness.

A person, Christian Science teaches, can be freed from any kind of prison. This freedom has to be earned through an honest application of spiritual Truth. Christ Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."^{John 8:32;} How, we may ask, can Truth, which is spiritual, be applied to our human experience? The answer lies in understanding the nature of Truth.

Truth is a synonym for God. It implies everything upright, just, merciful. Truth necessarily includes nothing unlike God. God is one God. He is All-in-all. He has created everything and has done it perfectly, exactly. "God saw every thing that he had made," we read in Genesis, "and, behold, it was very good."^{Gen. 1:31;} Mrs. Eddy emphasizes the allness of God in the statement: "There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God."^{Science and Health, p. 228:} God, our creator, the loving Father of all, never made a prison. In a universe completely good where can a place or state of confinement or restraint emanate from? No kind of prison can exist in the real, spiritual universe. And as certainly as there are no prisons, there can be no prisoners.