Editorial December 7, 1907 Issue

WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO ME

MARY BAKER G. EDDY, FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

The Ladies' Home Journal

This article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: My. 261:22-263:2

To me Christmas involves an open secret, understood by few—or by none—and unutterable except in Christian Science. Christ was not born of the flesh. Christ is the Truth and Life born of God—born of Spirit and not of matter. Jesus, the Galilean prophet, was born of the Virgin Mary's spiritual thoughts of Life and its manifestation.

God creates man perfect and eternal in His own image. Hence man is the image, idea, or likeness of perfection—an ideal which cannot fall from its inherent unity with divine Love, from its spotless purity and original perfection.

Observed by material sense, Christmas commemorates the birth of a human, material, mortal babe—a babe born in a manger amidst the flocks and herds of a Jewish village.

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