As a Reader in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I needed to choose selections from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and from the King James Version of the Bible, for the Wednesday evening meeting.
I became intrigued with the idea of researching words such as garment, vesture, clothed, and raiment, with the purpose of developing the idea of wearing Christly garments as the topic of my readings. I loved Eddy’s statement from Science and Health: “The divine Science of man is woven into one web of consistency without seam or rent. Mere speculation or superstition appropriates no part of the divine vesture, while inspiration restores every part of the Christly garment of righteousness” (p. 242). And later on she says, “The robes of Spirit are ‘white and glistering,’ like the raiment of Christ” (p. 267).
I found supporting statements in the Bible, such as this one from Isaiah: “My soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness” (61:10).
