Freedom — Every Man’s Right!

There is a video on the church website of a radio interview with a music historian, singer, and teacher named Joe Carter. He tells about the “spirituals” that the slaves would sing — and they became the foundation for Country, Jazz, and other forms of music. The slaves believed in the Supreme Deity, and the songs were really reaching out to God with a yearning to be free.

Today, it seems that all mankind, people everywhere, are in bondage of one sort or another — to illness, to depression, addiction, heredity, or many other forms of oppression. Mrs. Eddy speaks to this in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pages 224-228. She says that “men and women of all climes and races are still in bondage to material sense, ignorant how to obtain their freedom.” I love her reassurance that through faith in God, trust in Truth the strong deliverer, we too, through Christian Science, will know and acknowledge the God-given rights of man and be free, as she had done to help mankind. Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health, page 224, “Truth brings the elements of liberty. On its banner is the Soul-inspired motto, ‘Slavery is abolished.’ The power of God brings deliverance to the captive. No power can withstand divine Love. What is this supposed power, which opposes itself to God? Whence cometh it? What is it that binds man with iron shackles to sin, sickness, and death? Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes man free.”

Through the study of Christian Science, I found what God really means, and from that I found who I am and who everyone else is. I can’t be grateful enough for it because it has changed my life.

I am also very grateful for the “Models of Excellence” magazine that Lynda and Chardelle put together — the piece they did particularly on Martin Luther King. The part of it echoing his words, that the time for this freedom, the freedom that I’m sure Mrs. Eddy was talking about, will come, and I love the spiritual that speaks to this freedom. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “We will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men, white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last.”

I thank God, Christ Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy, and thanks to all, who in their own special way are bringing their fellow man to the Christ’s way of living, and the greatest freedom of all, the freedom to do and be right!