Article June 8, 1940 Issue

Your correspondent, "Luke," in referring to a Christian Science...

Mrs. Winifred M. Hartley,—Wolverhampton

Express and Star

Your correspondent, "Luke," in referring to a Christian Science lecture, asserts the lecturer to be quite wrong in her conception of the "new birth," as set forth in St. John's Gospel. Here Jesus says, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."

Christian Science interprets this "new birth" as a purification of sense and self. Nothing but the highest Christianization of thought and desire can give the true concept of God. This new birth is not accomplished in a moment, but through continuous self-abnegation, self-consecration, and unselfed love; thus mortals can lay off the "old man," and the full stature of the Christ appears. This spiritual birth opens to the understanding a higher and holier concept of the supremacy of Spirit, and man's spiritual existence dawns on human thought.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 241), "The baptism of Spirit, washing the body of all the impurities of flesh, signifies that the pure in heart see God and are approaching spiritual Life and its demonstration."

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