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122 slavery was abolished in our land. That was only prophetic of further steps towards the banishment of a mere wide-spread slavery, found on higher planes of existence and under more subtle and depraving forms.

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 should be won, not through human warfare, not with bayonet and blood, but through Christ's Divine Science.

God has built a higher platform of human rights, and built it on diviner claims. These claims are not made

through code or creed, but in demonstration of “peace on earth and good-will to man.” Human codes, theology, medicine, and hygiene fetter faith and understanding. Science rends asunder these fetters, and man's birthright of sole allegiance to his Maker asserts itself.

I saw before me the sick, wearing out years of servitude to an unreal master, in the belief that the body governed them, rather than Mind.

The lame, the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the sick, the sensual, the sinner, I wished to save from the slavery of

their own beliefs, and from the educational systems of the Pharaohs who to-day hold the children of Israel in bondage. I saw before me the awful conflict, the Red Sea, and the wilderness; but I pressed on, through faith in God, trusting Truth, the strong deliverer, to guide me into the land of Christian