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"No more a servant, but a son"

From the March 1949 issue of The Christian Science Journal


No more a servant! Prove illusive fetters
But webs of mortal weaving. Break their gauze
By seeking man's true self in mounting splendor,
Conceived by God and governed by His laws.

Could Mind, omniscient in eternal planning,
Engender aught imperfect, undefined?
Nay, Truth, omnipotent, unchanged through ages,
Shows law is freedom, positive and kind.

No longer at the beck and call of matter,
No more a servant, but instead a son!
In Spirit's perpetual union, child and Father,
God and His image, man, are now at one.

No past contaminates the God-held present.
The curse is baseless; man is only blest!
In rich, untrammeled, uncorrupted being
Is man's inheritance now manifest.

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