Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-07-21
REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEF
True Liberty
r1HE EXPERIENCES OF the Pill

grim Fathers illustrate the de-.
Sire to find true freedom where
alone it can be found, namely, in
spirituality. In the days Of the
early settling of New England the
brave pioneers sought liberty to
worship God after the dictates of
their conscience, and this they OBJ
tanned in a measure
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer
and Founder of Christian Science,
a descendant of Puritan ancestors,
found that the contamination of
such hope as theirs must finally
come from understanding God
Alright. Speaking on one occasion,
on Independence Day, as observed
in the United States of America.
Mrs. Eddy said miscellaneous
Writings, p. 176), '"The day we Gel
citrate reminds US of the heroes and
heroines who counted not their own
lives dear to them, when they sought
the New England shores, not as the
flying nor as conquerors, but, stead
fast in faith and love, to build upon
the rock Of Christ, the true idea of
God-the supremacy of Spirit and
the nothingness Of matter"
Her words remind us that human
limitations are due, primarily, not
to forms of government or to cir
cumstanceS of environment, but to
the basic error of materiality. &.
When anyone begins to reckon ex-
istence from the basis of Gods all
ness, affirming His utter goodness
security and harmony of man, as
effect, the limitations of matter are
giving. way. II.
On page 106 of "Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
Mrs. Eddy says, "God has endowed
man with inalienable rights, among
which are self-government, reason,
and conscience" Inseparable from
these are such other rights as
health, opportunity, joy, and prog
ress. These spiritual privileges may
be utilized in the proportion that
their divine. ever-availability is dis
cerned, for as the Bible says John
1920, GA man can receive nothing,
except it be given him from heaven"
Conversely, men receive everything
essential to happiness as they look
to God, the Giver Of "every good
gift and every perfect gift" (James
lid. Doctrinal theology has re-
garded God as partial, as though
lie were a finite person; but Chris
tIan Science reveals God to be the
infinite divine Principle of all true
being, whose laws may be under
stood and demonstrated. This teach
ing is based upon that of Christ
I Jesus.
The enslaver of mankind is ig-
noranee of Gods law, or false be-
lief. Superstition and partial knowl-
edge accompany this ignorance. En-
l1ghtenment, based upon a recogni-
ton of God as absolute good, de-
stroys the fearful thinking charac-
teristic of false belief, thus en-
abling men to Judge their fellows
fairly and to estimate correctly the
trend of the times. Spiritual en-
ifghtenment makes for patience, toll
GRANGE, poise, and hope, because it
penetrates the seeming reality Of
disturbances and reveals the ever
presence of God, good. 1t acknowl-
edges His omnipotence, and so it
fears no lesser power; His omnis-
| clence, and SO it breads no unwis-
dom of mortals; His omnipresence,
and SO it rejoices that in reality ali
men are eternally enwrapped in
Gods great love.
From this it is apparent that the
substance of human liberty is spir-
itual freedom. This freedom is
found in rejecting God, the origin
of all real being, thus proving that
ones actual selfhood is GodIike.
The basis of demonstration is the
fact that creation is good, that it
cannot be different in quality from
It's creator. When one gives this
subject his fullest attention, he con-
cludes that nothing save the testi-
mony of material sense pictures
man as mortal. It's claims must he
corrected. Its accusing suggestions
must be silenced by the knowledge
that ones fellows and oneself-all
that really exists-are Godlike. An
unsettled endeavor to express spirit
ual reality by availing oneself of
ones normal power to think spirit
ually, kindly, BEAUTIFULLY, is the only
sure way to enduring emancipa-
ton.
Progressive spiritual thinking
and living are evidence of a meek
and mighty assurance of infinite
Life. May we echo the Scriptural
assurance (Joel sgd, Gear not. o
land; be glad and rejoice: for the
Lord will do great things"
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