Article January 19, 1907 Issue

A NEW YEAR GREETING

Mary Alice Dayton

Boston, Mass., Jan. 1, 1907.

Beloved Leader:—The chimes of The Mother Church rang out at midnight a salutation to the New Year, and listening to "O'er waiting harpstrings," by our Leader, and "The clanging bells of time," there wakened anew in my thought a welcome to the dawn of Christian Science. We have given special heed this year, in our home, to the unfoldment of the spiritual import of Christmas, as found in "Miscellaneous Writings," in "Christ and Christmas," and in "Christmas as in Christian Science" (Christian Science Journal, January, 1906),—all from your pen; and in proportion to the surrender of the material sense of the day, we have gained its true significance. Not by outward service, ritual, or gift-giving, but in the advent to human consciousness of divine sonship, is the Christ borne to earth. We find this teaching in no other author's writings, and in no book but the Bible. Increasingly do we rejoice that Immanuel—God with us—is revealed in Christian Science.

As a child it distressed me to read of the unjust and cruel treatment which Jesus, the Messenger of God, received, and I prayed that should Christ reappear during my stay on earth, I might know and follow him. Recognizing the healing power of God in your teachings, I felt assured that Christ, Truth, was again at hand, and I sought to follow the Christian Science movement. To my surprise I found history repeating itself, and that spiritual teachings were still unwelcome to the carnal mind.

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