The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-11

uNes IN an hlmObpneIe OF freedom
seldom appreciate what they have
II would seem as II the heritage
OF liberty had been too easily be-
slowed.
The United States OF America
was not established as a free ma
ton without a struggle. The free
dom that you and ! enjoy as ours
was the outcome OF the spiritual
determination on the part OF our
forefathers to secure II, and repre-
sents struggle and privation. This
nation Is the expression OF an
ideal. II came into being through
the desire OF those early Pilgrim
settlers and others to establish and
perpetuate freedom for the indi-
vidual. Their ideals were later EN-
bodied in the Constitution and the
Bill OF Rights, designed to accord
civic. religious and economic free
dom TO every citizen.
True Basis OF Government
MAN as idea exists at the stand
point OF divine Mind and is, there
fore. forever one with Mind. For
that reason. one who understands
the truth about God and mans re-
lationship to Him is in the truest
nd best sense a free thinker.
fundamentally, no one else can
,tually tell what he must think
do. True knowledge is unfet-
red knowledge. A nation or gov
nment Is, therefore, no better
han the thinking OF its citizens.
We can be a free nation because
OF our thinking, or we can become
slaves. II the thought qualities OF
freedom, tolerance, equality, and
brotherhood are operating, they
will express themselves in a liber
al and democratic form OF govern
ment. On the other hand. II apa-
thy, civic indifference, corruption
and human will are the dominating
qualities In the thought OF the citt-
zens OF a nation, they cannot fail
to be expressed in corrupt and
arbitrary forms OF government.
Through suffering and hard ex-
periences, because they apparently
do not known how TO come any
other way. nations are educated or
led out OF bondage into freer and
better forms OF government.
The Perfect Law or Liberty
paul declared, I was free born
And Christian Science teaches that,
because man exists forever as an
unfettered idea OF Mind, he cannot
legitimately be the slave OF any
form OF mental or physical despot-
ism; but It also teaches that every
man must understand and demon
strate this fact for himself.
THE Apostle James saw some
thing OF the meaning OF true free
dom when he wrote. Whose look
eth into the perfect law OF liberty,
and continueth therein. he being
not a forgetful nearer, but a doer
OF the work, this man shall be
blessed in his deed" Christian Sci.
ence demands that we look into
and truly understand this law OF
liberty which is expressed in right
thinking and acting, and therefore
inevitably involves consideration
for the rights and welfare OF 9th
ers. Liberty does not mean the
license or unrestrained privilege Of
doing unpleasant things at the ex-
pense OF others. Indeed, one is only
truly free when he considers the
rights OF his neighbor as conjoined
with his own. To love ones neigh
Dor as oneself Is to think of this
neighbor as II he were oneself.
and this will always mean a though
and this will always mean
thoughtful regard for the rights OF
that nieghbor.
"Self-discipline and self-control
are important factors in the ex-
preston OF a true democracy and
well-ordered government. and no
man may be said to have attained
q right concept OF freedom until he
has learned how to discipline his
own thought and acts.
1.-THE proper application OF the
Golden Rule and the conception OF
the brotherhood OF man, must lead
to right social state. The basic
facts Of metaphysics, as taught in
Christian Science, are in line with
this because they declare that in
the infinity OF Mind there Is al
equality OF opportunity, infinite
progress and substance for all OF
Minds ideas. 1t should be noted
too that there are certain meta.
physical facts that will not coin
eide with some OF the current phil
osophies OF government.
Amy effort to destroy freedom
OF individual enterprise is contrary
to the law OF God, contrary TO the
scientific fact that man. as idea,
must ever progress. Curbing or de-
struction OF individual enterprise
by governmental legislation. would
deprive man OF the incentive to
work, to create. and to develop.
Any arbitrary limitation placed up
on individual mans ability to grow
and achieve legitimate success is
purely an expression OF mortal
minds Limitation and is directly op-
posed to the Science OF true being,
in which man exists as an ever