Editorial January 6, 1906 Issue

Christmas for the Children

Mary Baker Eddy

This article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: My. 261:1-20

Methinks the loving parents and guardians of youth ofttimes query: How shall we cheer the children's Christmas and profit them withal? The wisdom of their elders, who seek wisdom of God, seems to have amply provided for this, according to the custom of the age and to the full supply of juvenile joy. Let it continue thus, with one exception; namely, the children should not be taught to believe that Santa Claus has aught to do with this pastime. A deceit or falsehood is never wise. Too much cannot be done towards guarding and guiding well the germinating and inclining thought of childhood. To mould aright the first impressions of innocence aids in perpetuating purity and unfolding the immortal model, man in His image and likeness. St. Paul wrote, "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, ... but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

Mary Baker Eddy.
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., December 28, 1905.

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