to God? Whence cometh it? What is it that binds man with iron shackles to sickness, sin, and death? Whatsoever enslaveth man is opposed to the divine government.
You may know when Truth leads, by the fewness and faithfulness of its followers. The march of Truth's followers. generations bears onward the banner of freedom. The powers of this world will fight, and command their sentinels not to let Truth pass the guard until it subscribes to their creeds and systems; but Science, heeding not the pointed bayonet, marches on. There is some tumult, and a few rally to its standard.
The history of our country, like all history, illustrates the might of Mind, and shows human power to be Immortal sentences. proportionate to its embodiment of right motives. A few immortal sentences, breathing the principles of divine justice, have been potent enough to break despotic fetters, and abolish the whipping-post and slave market; but oppression neither went down in blood, nor did the breath of freedom come from the cannon's mouth. Love is the liberator.
To legally abolish unpaid servitude in the United States was hard, but the abolition of mental slavery Physical and moral servitude. is a more difficult task. The despotic tendencies inherent in mortal mind, and always germinating in new forms of tyranny, must be rooted out through the action of the divine Mind.
Men and women, of all climes and races, are still in bondage to material sense, ignorant how to obtain their freedom. The rights of man were vindicated in a single section, and on the lowest plane of life, when African
