Old claim - new name

Jennie says her experience of Christian Science class instruction with Mrs Eddy was like being born again.  I have a thought about this being “born again” idea and wonder: Are we born again when we know that we have never been born into matter?

The partnership of Jennie and her husband Silas in the practice of Christian Science seems to me to be unusual.  How they must have strengthened each other!  Silas seems to have been a major figure in the beginnings of the Christian Science movement, though we do not hear about his quiet accomplishments at Mrs Eddy’s direction.

Page 27 gives us a reason perhaps for why we have a medical up-date in the news so often. Mrs Eddy required "practitioners of Christian Science to keep informed of the new names that the medical world is constantly giving to the different ailments the human body is subject to, for each name conveys to the mind of the patient an increased sense of fear and danger….  The Christian Scientist, knowing that the name imparts added fear, must...meet and undo the old claim under its new name,..."

Joyce Voysey