The preservation of freedom, the defense of liberty, the rights of the individual—these are subjects which are today occupying the time and attention of millions of men and women. Many of them have been roused for the first time to value and appreciate the freedom and enlightenment that have come to them as legacies from their forefathers. These noble concepts are forerunners of a greater freedom which is still to be won for the human race. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has elucidated her revelation of Christian Science, which, setting at nought the false beliefs of mortals, points to freedom from all the ills of mortality—sin, sickness, limitation, and death—and promises a permanent peace on earth.
Even in those countries where concepts of freedom and liberty have long been woven into the life and government of their people, the events of today make it plain that these rights must be founded upon something more stable and enduring than human law, and defended by something more potent than material armaments. Moreover, so long as men believe themselves to be subject to material limitations, the victims of want, unemployment, disease, sorrow, accident, death, they are not free, even though they may live in what is known as a free country. Under the marginal topic "Liberty's crusade,"Mrs. Eddy has written(Science and Health, p. 226), "The voice of God in behalf of the African slave was still echoing in our land, when the voice of the herald of this new crusade sounded the keynote of universal freedom, asking a fuller acknowledgment of the rights of man as a Son of God, demanding that the fetters of sin, sickness, and death be stricken from the human mind and that its freedom be won, not through human warfare, not with bayonet and blood, but through Christ's divine Science."
Since these fetters are to "be stricken from the human mind," it is obvious that the struggle for freedom is to be carried on primarily in the mental realm, and won "through Christ's divine Science." Every material science with which we are familiar proceeds in orderly fashion from a given basis. The Science of Christ, or Christian Science, proceeds from a divine basis, and deductions drawn from it are in line with divine logic, but not necessarily with human conclusions. If we start with God as the one great cause and creator of the universe, including man, we are forced to admit that the divine Principle of all real being does not contain any element unlike itself which could contest its power or contravene its divine nature or essence. The presence of such an element would at once limit infinity by bringing in a destructive element which would eventually overthrow infinity—an obvious impossibility. This means, then, that freedom is an essential characteristic of all real being.
