Article December 22, 1951 Issue

"BLEST CHRISTMAS MORN"

ALICE PYKE HOWE

With uncompromising clarity Mary Baker Eddy has proclaimed to the world the revolutionary and redemptive meaning of Christmas. She writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 257), "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." And she continues significantly, "To-day the Christ is, more than ever before, 'the way, the truth, and the life,'—'which lighteth every man that cometh into the world,' healing all sorrow, sickness, and sin."

For centuries the Christian world has celebrated the birth of the Saviour, who ushered in the Christian era. The simple but glorious story of the shepherds watching their flocks and beholding the glory of the Lord has lost none of its beauty or its profound spiritual message over the years. The world had waited long for the Messiah, and it was therefore a momentous occasion when the angel of the Lord gave the shepherds assurance that the Saviour had really come.

In the matchless words of Luke (2:10, 11): "The angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." And Luke adds that when they heard the heavenly chorus they made haste and came to where the young child was.

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