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of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of
man are fully known and acknowledged.
(Higher law ends bondage)
I saw that the law of mortal belief included all error,
and that, even as oppressive laws are disputed and mortals
are taught their right to freedom, so the
claims of the enslaving senses must be denied
and superseded. The law of the divine Mind must
end human bondage, or mortals will continue unaware
of man's inalienable rights and in subjection to hopeless
slavery, because some public teachers permit
an ignorance of divine power, - an ignorance that
is the foundation of continued bondage and of human
suffering.
(Native freedom)
Discerning the rights of man, we cannot fail to foresee
the doom of all oppression. Slavery is not the legitimate
state of man. God made man free.
Paul said, "I was free born." All men should
be free. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty." Love and Truth make free, but evil and error
lead into captivity.
(Standard of liberty)
Christian Science raises the standard of liberty and
cries: "Follow me! Escape from the bondage of sickness,
sin, and death!" Jesus marked out the
way. Citizens of the world, accept the "glorious
liberty of the children of God," and be free! This
is your divine right. The illusion of material sense, not
divine law, has bound you, entangled your free limbs,
crippled your capacities, enfeebled your body, and defaced
the tablet of your being.
If God had instituted material laws to govern man,
disobedience to which would have made man ill, Jesus
would not have disregarded those laws by healing in
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