Article April 21, 1923 Issue

Christian Science accepts only the record of the spiritual...

Joseph Axtell, Committee on Publication for Somerset County, England,

Bath and Wilts Chronicle

Christian Science accepts only the record of the spiritual creation as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis and up to the third verse of the second, where it distinctly states His work was finished. Two creations are antithetical and out of harmony with each other, as any Bible student knows. Christian Science also holds that the man of God's making is in His image and likeness, which, if it means anything, must mean in the likeness of Spirit, as Jesus taught the nature of God to be. Whatever material environment may seem to exist is the result of material-mindedness or wrong thinking; as, for instance, one might say of a slum environment. To obtain the promised new heaven and new earth involves a "new birth" from matter to Spirit, which Christ Jesus taught was absolutely essential. He said: "Ye must be born again;" and "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." And again, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profitethe nothing." Putting off material thinking,—the carnal or material mind which is "enmity against God,"—and putting on the Mind of Christ and its spiritual thinking, is participating in the "new birth." This does not tend to lift religion away from life as it ought to be lived, but makes life worth living, as it brings all the transforming and ever renewing fruits of Spirit. No effete doctrinal definition of future salvation can deprive any one of these eternal, ever present, spiritual effects and their correlatives,—health and freedom; for "now is the day of salvation." Christ Jesus said, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." This is what Christian Science teaches about correct living.

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