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 HEALTH AND FREEDOM-everybody's right

God's government and its healing effects are for everyone,

not just a certain set of people.

"CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, accept the 'glorious liberty of the children of God,' and be free! This is your divine right." ¹

When I first read this statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, it made a huge impact on my understanding of freedom. I had taken up the study of this book after hearing that a vicar from my denomination had recommended studying it as a way of gaining the Bible's deeper meaning. At the time, I was in charge of our denominational Sunday School. I had a totally open mind, and because of my deep love of the Bible, I often read books to get a deeper understanding of the Scriptures.

Studying Science and Health, and witnessing the healings taking place in my family because of this study, eventually made me investigate the church that the author, Mary Baker Eddy, had established. I loved the spiritual nourishment I got from the Wednesday evening meetings I attended, through the insights and healings that others related. Eventually, I decided to join that church. The truths I was discovering in Science and Health were so dynamic that they were not just raising my consciousness but enriching my daily contacts and experience as well. The message of the Christ was changing my whole life, without even a conscious effort on my part to bring about that change.

ONE EXCITING experience I had involved the mother of one of my children's classmates. She had been taken seriously ill and become paralyzed and bedridden. This distressed my children, and they kept asking me how to pray about the situation. They also kept begging me to give her a copy of Science and Health. She was a medical nurse, though, and I didn't think she would be open to the idea of spiritual healing. Having been severely criticized by other friends about relying on spiritual healing, I was doubly cautious. But my children kept persisting, and I felt I owed it to them to show them that I was willing to share with this woman what had blessed us.

One day, as I was taking her a lunch I had prepared for her, I slipped a copy of Science and Health into my bag. While I sat by her bed, she began to tell me in desperation how she had tried all sorts of surgeons and medical specialists and treatments. And nothing had worked. I remained silent, pushing my bag with the book in it further away as I heard the details of the medical diagnosis and treatments-thinking this book was definitely not for her. Then she said to me, "There is nothing in the world left for me to try."

I couldn't stay silent another moment. She was a citizen of this world, and as a child of God, she had the right to be free-and was free. I told her about what Science and Health had done for my family and me. She took the book and became so engrossed in it that I slipped away quietly, leaving it with her. She was up and about three weeks later, and has never looked back. She was totally healed of the condition and went back to a full and active life.

GOD'S GOVERNMENT is not limited to a certain set of people. It embraces everyone in the infinite universe of Spirit. You and I can realize this true government through love and an unselfish desire to help others. Spiritual love breaks prejudice, removes barriers, and blossoms as we serve our fellow beings.

After my friend's healing, many of my former church friends came in to the Christian Science Reading Room to buy Science and Health while I was working there. We have had many happy times together, and many of them are committed readers of the textbook and have experienced spiritual healing. In fact, they now run healing services in their own church.

Science and Health says: "God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love." ² Beginning in individual consciousness, this righteous government will increasingly be seen throughout the world in an ever-widening circle of health and freedom. You and I will contribute to this freedom as we let the spirit of pure love shine within us.

1 Science and Health, p. 227.

2 Ibid., p. 106.

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