Article December 23, 1950 Issue

COMMEMORATING THE CHRIST

MYRTLE B. MC COSKER

Christian Scientists endeavor to commemorate an eternal Christmas, as did their Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who wrote, "I celebrate Christmas with my soul, my spiritual sense, and so commemorate the entrance into human understanding of the Christ conceived of Spirit, of God and not of a woman—as the birth of Truth, the dawn of divine Love breaking upon the gloom of matter and evil with the glory of infinite being" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 262).

Our Leader awoke from the dream of life in matter when she beheld the healing Truth which Jesus demonstrated in his curing of the palsied man, as recorded in the ninth chapter of Matthew. It had been said that her illness would prove fatal, and when she was delivered from death, a puzzled friend asked: "How is it that you are restored to us? Has Christ come again on earth?"

"Christ never left," replied Mrs. Eddy; "Christ is Truth, and Truth is always here,—the impersonal Saviour" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 180).

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