Christmas is for many people a precious reminder of the moment when, through Christian Science, the first glimpse of the Christ, the spiritual idea of God, came to them and they were reborn.
The moment you and I become earnest students of Christian Science and begin to apply it to human problems, at that moment in some degree we become practitioners of this Science.
From time to time people express doubts as to whether the character and life of Christ Jesus are authentically portrayed in the Gospels—or even whether he actually existed as a person at all.
When Christ Jesus sent out his disciples to preach the gospel, he left no doubt of their authority to heal through his teaching, and when they returned, they came "with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.