Article March 20, 1948 Issue

MEMORIZING THE NATIVITY OF JESUS

MARGARET GLENN MATTERS

Only once does the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, instruct the students of this Science to memorize anything, and she does this in connection with the nativity of Jesus. Her words are (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 374), "It is most fitting that Christian Scientists memorize the nativity of Jesus." And in another article in this same book (p. 74) she tells us that "his nativity was a spiritual and immortal sense of the ideal world."

Whatever we memorize we have with us in consciousness, available any time we may desire to utilize it. True memory knows only that which is real, the ever-present ideas and thoughts which always have been, and which always will be. So, to memorize Jesus' nativity as defined by Mrs. Eddy would mean to have with us in consciousness "a spiritual and immortal sense of the ideal world," of the spiritual ideas which constitute God's creation, or universe.

Memory as an immortal faculty of divine Mind retains in consciousness the good, loving, pure, noble, and joyous thoughts with which divine Love is ever supplying man. To become aware of the beauty, harmony, and loveliness of man's true being as the reflection of Soul, is the new birth; and to continue in the consciousness of man's Christly nature is truly to memorize the nativity of Jesus, the spiritual and immortal sense of the ideal creation.

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