Article December 25, 1948 Issue

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM

JEANNE ROE PRICE

On a clear winter night some nineteen centuries and more ago, many were troubled, sick, and for the most part enslaved. The great Roman Empire, after a triumphant conquest of practically all the lands surrounding the Mediterranean, ruled autocratically the people it called its subjects. So widespread was its domain and so firmly entrenched its dominion, it must have seemed the most powerful force in all the world.

Yet on that night a star was shining through the darkness of oppression and fear—a glorious, wonderful star heralding a new era of time and thought, the downfall of despotism and slavery, the advent of the Prince of Peace. Wisemen saw the star and joyfully followed it to where the infant Jesus lay. Shepherds, watching their flocks by night, heard the heavens filled with angelic songs of "glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." And they too sought and found the child.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mrs. Eddy writes (Pref., p. vii): "The wakeful shepherd beholds the first faint morning beams, are cometh the full radiance of a risen day. So shone the pale star to the prophet-shepherds; yet it traversed the night, and came where, in cradled obscurity, lay the Bethlehem babe, the human herald of Christ, Truth, who would make plain to benighted understanding the way of salvation through Christ Jesus, till across a night of error should dawn the morning beams and shine the guiding star of being. The Wisemen were led to behold and to follow this daystar of divine Science, lighting the way to eternal harmony."

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Article

HOLD ON AND LET GO!