Article May 8, 1954 Issue

SPIRIT CLOTHES US

JOANNA FRESHWATER

Clothing is often spoken of in the Bible in terms of spiritual qualities. The writer of Proverbs says of the virtuous woman (31:25), "Strength and honour are her clothing."

Students of Christian Science are learning to recognize the mental nature of all forms of matter. Going beyond this, they are discovering that true substance is divine Mind, Spirit. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 104): "Clothed, and in its right Mind, man's individuality is sinless, deathless, harmonious, eternal. His materiality, clad in a false mentality, wages feeble fight with his individuality,—his physical sense with his spiritual sense." Christian Scientists are striving to put off the false mortal mentality and to be clothed in the garments of spiritual sense. This taking off of the material and putting on of the spiritual comes as the result of study, prayer, and practice.

The Old Testament patriarchs believed that God provides for what appear to be human needs. After his marvelous dream at Bethel, when he discerned the heavenward footsteps of Truth, Jacob linked his allegiance to God to demonstrable proof of God's provisions of food, raiment, shelter.

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