Article December 21, 1957 Issue

PRESENTING OUR GIFTS

FLOYD C. SHANK

"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." This statement is included in the article "What Christmas Means to Me" by Mary Baker Eddy (The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany, p. 262).

Do we follow our Leader's example, and when we behold and recognize a spiritual truth appearing at the door of our thought, do we contemplate it with reverence and humility?

The Wisemen of old followed the star to the place where Jesus was. "And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts: gold, and frankincense, and myrrh' (Matt. 2:11). This giving of gifts by the Wisemen may illustrate for us the giving up of material sense in order that through spiritual sense we may recognize the Christ-idea and hold thought consciously to its light.

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