Article December 21, 1940 Issue

"The basis of Christmas"

FRANCES H. FENN

MARY BAKER EDDY writes on page 260 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany": "The basis of Christmas is the rock, Christ Jesus; its fruits are inspiration and spiritual understanding of joy and rejoicing,—not because of tradition, usage, or corporeal pleasures, but because of fundamental and demonstrable truth, because of the heaven within us. The basis of Christmas is love loving its enemies, returning good for evil, love that 'suffereth long, and is kind.' "

Christian Science makes clear the distinction between the human Jesus, Mary's son, and Christ, the divine idea of God. And when we learn the true import of the impersonal Christ, Truth, our days will not be shorn of the fruits of a continuous Christmas—"inspiration and spiritual understanding of joy and rejoicing." Neither will the belief of past personal joys and sorrows prevent the present realization of true joy, and the spiritual happiness that knows no taint of bitterness.

At the holiday season, commendable efforts are made by individuals and organizations to relieve human want. But such efforts, unattended by the heavenly vision, are inadequate to meet the human need for spiritual enlightenment. A study of the references listed in the Concordances pertaining to Mrs. Eddy's life shows that she was not unmindful of human needs, or of those in unhappy circumstances, and that she took active steps to relieve want.

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