Article December 22, 1945 Issue

Christmas Happiness Assured

ELLA MAY FRAZER

The following words by Mary Baker Eddy point the way to a happy Christmas in the wake of war: "To-day the watchful shepherd shouts his welcome over the new cradle of an old truth. This truth has traversed night, through gloom to glory, from cradle to crown. To the awakened consciousness, the Bethlehem babe has left his swaddling-clothes (material environments) for the form and comeliness of the divine ideal, which has passed from a corporeal to the spiritual sense of Christ and is winning the heart of humanity with ineffable tenderness" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 257).

Those seeking the comfort of the Christ will find it in "the new cradle of an old truth," the textbook of Christian Science, which thousands herald in the same way as the shepherds greeted the angelic messengers that told of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. For, now as then, the Christ, Truth, is ever present to unfold to waking humanity the man of God's creation, the likeness of divine Love, never born of the flesh, never dying out of the flesh.

Those who attend the Wednesday evening testimony meetings in Churches of Christ, Scientist, throughout the world, hear earnest testifiers say that through their continued study of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, they have been lifted out of the depths of sorrow, pain, and distress of every type. They express their gratitude for this gift of gifts because, for most of them, it has meant the coming of Christ, Truth, to consciousness, and the difference between death and life, deformity and normalcy, sorrow and joy, lack and abundance.

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