FREEDOM OR SLAVERY
I was in conversation with a man a few days ago, and we were talking with reference to evil propensities and signing pledges and forming firm resolutions to quit bad habits. He said, “I won’t sign a pledge because I won’t sign away my liberty.” I asked him what liberty he meant, and he said: “Liberty to do as I please.” I said to him, “That is not liberty. Any man that does as he pleases, independent of physical, moral and divine law, is a miserable slave.”—U. S. Shrimp, Church Advocate.
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Freedom, Religious—See [Liberty, Individual].
Freedom, The Appeal of—See [Earnestness].
FREEDOM THROUGH DRILL
R. H. Haweis gives an experience that would be good for all learners:
He (Oury) taught me Rode’s Air in G—that beautiful melody which has been, with its well-known variations, the pièce de résistance of so many generations of violinists and soprani. I was drilled in every note, the bowing was rigidly fixt for me, the whole piece was marked, bar by bar, with slur, p and f, rall. and crescendo. I was not allowed to depart a hair’s breadth from rule. When I could do this easily and accurately, Oury surprized me one day by saying:
“Now you can play it as you like; you need not attend to a single mark!”
“How so?” I said.