Article December 21, 1957 Issue

AT THE CHRISTMASTIDE

ISRAEL PICKENS

A Factory representative was selling incandescent lamps when the strings of colored lamps made especially for Christmas tree decoration were placed on the market for the first time. This innovation met with an immediate popular demand. The salesman found much pleasure and a pardonable pride when at this particular Christmas season he drove through some of the towns and cities in his territory. At night the homes both small and large were illumined by these attractive lights, strung gracefully upon the Christmas trees.

Being a student of Christian Science, this salesman pondered lovingly over the people's sincere efforts to bring joy and gladness to themselves and to others at Christmastide as they placed presents beneath these trees all aglow with lights of many colors. He thought of how sincerely humanity is seeking to bring happiness to others through the spirit of giving. Yet, he pondered further how wonderful it would be if all these people could only know of the revelation of Christian Science. This revelation of Mary Baker Eddy had come to him healing and guiding him into the light of the eternal Christ.

Christian Science brings to human thought the true meaning of Christmas: a commemoration of the birth of the divine idea, Christ. The coming of the Christ to a darkened human sense is like the morning's dawn, which presages the complete effulgence of the day's glorious noontide. This light, or Christ, is the manifestation of God. It reveals man as God's image, reflecting the divine intelligence of Mind.

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