Article August 22, 1959 Issue

WASHING OUR ROBES WHITE

MYRTLE A. CASH

In Revelation we read (7:13): "What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?" The answer follows: "These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."

Mary Baker Eddy explains this passage when she writes (The People's Idea of God, p. 9), "It is the baptism of Spirit that washes our robes and makes them white in the blood of the Lamb; that bathes us in the life of Truth and the truth of Life."

The spiritual meanings of the words "Lamb" and "blood" are "purity" and "sacrifice." Christian Science teaches that "the baptism of Spirit" signifies submergence of the mortal sense of existence in the reality of man's divine sonship with God. Such submergence can be practically manifest only in the Christlike self-immolation which follows the example of the Master in thought, word, and deed.

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