Editorial June 7, 1982 Issue

Citizens of liberty

BEULAH M. ROEGGE

Liberty is a state of freedom. Citizenship in this "state" is both inherited and earned. God's spiritual offspring are always free from restraint and oppression, while what are referred to by the Psalmist as the "children of men" have God-given opportunity and help to break out of mortal restraints and attain the liberty of living under God's eternally fair law.

The concept of matter always implies restrictions and limitations. But the truth of man's real, scientific being as the unfettered emanation of God, Spirit, can be brought to bear on matter-based beliefs and reveal our liberty. "Citizens of the world, accept the 'glorious liberty of the children of God,'" Christian Science invites, "and be free!" In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 227.

The desire to be free and to help others to greater freedom is deepened and fulfilled as we learn more about our true selfhood as children of God. Indeed, the work of Christ, ideal manhood, is depicted in Isaiah as a proclaiming of "liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound." Isa. 61:1. Christ Jesus did this gloriously, breaking every bondage of sickness, poverty, sinfulness, even mortality itself.

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