Miscellaneous Writings 18831896 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: identifies himself with . it, fancies he finds pleasure in it, and will reap what he sows; hence the sinner must endure the effects of his delusion until he ... more »awakes from it. THE NEW BIRTH. Saint Paul speaks of the new birth, as " waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body." The great Nazarene prophet said, " Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Nothing aside from the spiritualization -- yea, the highest Christianization -- of thought and desire, can give the true perception of God and Divine Science, that results in health, happiness, and holiness. The new birth is not the work of a moment. It begins with moments, and goes on with years; moments of surrender to God, of childlike trust and joyful adoption of good; moments of self-abnegation, self -consecration, heaven-born hope, and spiritual love. Time may commence, but it cannot complete, the new birth: eternity does this; for progress is the law of Infinity. Only through the sore travail of mortal mind, shall soul, as sense, be satisfied, and man awake in His likeness. What a faith-lighted thought is this! that mortals can lay off the "old man," until man is found to be the image of the infinite Good that we name God, and the fulness of the stature of man in Christ appears. In mortal and material man, goodness seems in embryo. By suffering for sin, and the gradual fading out of the mortal and material sense of man, thought is developed into an infant Christianity; and, feeding atfirst on the milk of the word, it drinks in the sweet re. vealings of a new and more spiritual Life and Love. These nourish the hungry hope, satisfy more the cravings for immortality, and so comfort, cheer, and bless one, that he saith: In mine infancy, this is enough of Heaven to come down to ea...« less