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Rh Science, where fetters fall, and the rights of man to freedom are fully known and acknowledged.

I saw that the law of mortal belief included all error, and that, even as oppressive laws were disputed, and

mortals were taught their right to freedom, so the claims of enslaving senses must be denied and superseded. The higher law of the divine Mind must end human bondage, or mortals will continue ignorant of man's inalienable rights, and in subjection to hopeless slavery, because their mental masters enforce ignorance as the guarantee of continued obedience, servitude, and suffering.

Discerning the rights of man, we cannot fail to foresee the doom of all oppression. Slavery is not the

legitimate state of man. God made man free. Paul said, “I was free born.” All men should be free. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” Love and Truth make free, but evil and error lead into captivity.

Christian Science raises the standard of liberty, and cries: “Follow me! Escape from the bondage of

sickness, sin, and death!” Jesus marked out standard the way. Citizens of the world, accept the “glorious liberty of the children of God,” and be free! This is your divine right. The illusion of material sense, not divine law, has bound you, entangled your free limbs, crippled your capacities, enfeebled your body, and defaced the tablet of your mind with error.

If God had instituted material laws to govern man, disobedience to which would have made him ill, Jesus would not have disregarded those laws by healing in