These words of Phillips Brooks have a wealth of meaning to those who have gained some understanding of the real Christmas, and of Christ in divine Science.
In
that wonderful prayer for his disciples on the eve of his betrayal, Jesus prayed, "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Of
all holidays, undoubtedly Christmas is the most universally beloved by Christendom, although probably a large percentage of those celebrating this day fail to dwell on what it signifies in commemorating the nativity of Jesus in an obscure town in Judea.
The
words and works of Christ Jesus should do more than reassure humanity, for when rightly considered they establish an abiding confidence in the might of spiritual law.
Just
as there is a great need today for scientific methods in cultivating the soil, if we are to feed the hungry, so there is the same need for scientific methods in the cultivation of thought, only in this case the methods, to be of lasting value, must be spiritually scientific.
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"Columbia West Coast Church of the Air" talk over Columbia Broadcasting System by Herbert E. Bonham,
A Christian Science period in the "Columbia West Coast Church of the Air" series was conducted from Station KQW, San Francisco, California, on Sunday, December 13, 1942, at 8.
A newly appointed Sunday school teacher, prayerfully considering work before her, thought of her own years in the Christian Science Sunday School, which she had attended from the age of three.
It is now fifteen years since Christian Science first found me at a time when my need was very great, and when I seemed to be faced with a position of hopelessness.
I have been a student of Christian Science since 1914 and a member of The Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1918, I have been a member of a branch church since 1920.
Through the study and application of Christian Science, it has been my great joy to experience many healings and to feel "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding.
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