How mankind longs for freedom and for peace! Human efforts to meet this longing are greater and more widespread today than ever before. The desire for freedom is a right desire, because it is a desire for the rightful heritage of man, of which, as actually the child of God, one cannot be deprived. A Deity bereft of freedom and peace is inconceivable. Qualities unknown to God and foreign to His perfect being, hence in truth nonexistent, find no avenue of expression in His creation. This creation is governed by its creator, infinite Mind, the only lawgiver. Christian Science acknowledges this one creation only and teaches that its harmonious order cannot be overthrown or destroyed.
That the great longing of mankind for freedom and peace has not thus far been more fully met is due to ignorance concerning God and the true spiritual creation. Ignorance of God as the only creator must lead to captivity instead of to freedom, and therefore must result in human suffering. Mortals are the frightened victims of the baneful conclusions of their own erroneous thinking through which the powers of evil seem to operate.
Despite the illusive mist of mortal sense, our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, recognized and demonstrated the presence of the eternally operative law of truth and freedom. She knew that this law always triumphs. That which does not reflect the nature of God is not law. Irving C. Tomlin-son in his book "Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy" quotes an article which appeared in The Christian Science Journal of May, 1885, and which contains these words (p. 129): "All these rumblings of discord, to the watchers on Mount Zion, come fraught with assurance of the onward march of Righteousness. Whether the people recognize the presence or not it is here, making for their freedom. And not the dominion of acknowledged kings and princes alone is threatened—but the dominion of man over man in any form must give way to the liberty, fraternity and equality, toward which the unseen Law, spiritual and eternal, forces humanity."
