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House of bondage

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, as of yore, hold the children of Israel in bondage. I saw be- fore me the awful conflict, the Red Sea and the wilder- ness; but I pressed on through faith in God, trusting Truth, the strong deliverer, to guide me into the land


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of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of man are fully known and acknowledged.