Show MORAL FREEDOM GREAT NEED by REV DR S M princeton theological seminary suicide is ia not the road to moral freedom nor an avenue of escape from slavery yet to have our minds freed once and for all from fear of men and of self from fearon fear of death and the future is an old problem and many minds have sought its solution men and women are driven all day long by fear we fear ourselves we fear them the police we fear the great law of god seneca the stoic once advised a young man who wanted to find the path to freedom to commit suicide seneca said do you see your neck your tl throat irot your heart they are avenues of escape from slavery freedom from restraint does not enlighten nor create new capacities it only lets loosed loose what is already there to give a child or a nation freedom without other gifts is a tragedy independence without self gelf control means disaster tile the freedom we all need an and d seek i ia s freedom from and in in ourselves moral freedom and a mans greatest foe is often himself |