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Whence cometh it? What is it that binds man with iron
shackles to sin, sickness, and death? Whatever enslaves
man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes
man free.
(Truth's ordeal)
You may know when first Truth leads by the fewness
and faithfulness of its followers. Thus it is that
the march of time bears onward freedom's
banner. The powers of this world will fight,
and will command their sentinels not to let truth pass
the guard until it subscribes to their systems; but Science,
heeding not the pointed bayonet, marches on. There is
always some tumult, but there is a rallying to truth's
standard.
(Immortal sentences)
The history of our country, like all history, illustrates
the might of Mind, and shows human power to be proportionate
to its embodiment of right thinking. A
few immortal sentences, breathing the omnipotence
of divine justice, have been potent to break despotic
fetters and abolish the whipping-post and slave market;
but oppression neither went down in blood, nor did the
breath of freedom come from the cannon's mouth. Love
is the liberator.
(Slavery abolished)
Legally to abolish unpaid servitude in the United
States was hard; but the abolition of mental slavery is
a more difficult task. The despotic tendencies,
inherent in mortal mind and always germinating
in new forms of tyranny, must be rooted out
through the action of the divine Mind.
Men and women of all climes and races are still in
bondage to material sense, ignorant how to obtain their
freedom. The rights of man were vindicated in a single
section and on the lowest plane of human life, when African
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