Editorial December 19, 1964 Issue

The Coming of Christ

Helen Wood Bauman

All Christendom celebrates the birth of the child Jesus. But the eternal Christ he lived to represent was never born. The coming of Christ marks advancing states and stages of human thought as it wakens from the mortal dream of temporal, material existence and becomes conscious of man as God's immortal, spiritual son. This awakening, wonderfully furthered by Christian Science, saves mankind from the pains and sins and disasters that beset them.

While the Christian Scientist loves Christmas Day with its reminder of an event so important to human liberation from all that is false, he knows that the birth of Christliness in his own nature is the nativity he must celebrate every day. This he does by ripening his heart to the spirit and presence of Christ, Truth, God's ideal. The Scientist knows that he must embody the power of Truth and develop that power until it becomes a strong, healing force in the world. When the Christ is known, loved, and lived, scientific healing takes place.

In "Miscellaneous Writings" in her answer to the question, "How is the healing done in Christian Science?" Mary Baker Eddy includes these words (pp. 96, 97): "It is Christ come to destroy the power of the flesh; it is Truth over error; that understood, gives man ability to rise above the evidence of the senses, take hold of the eternal energies of Truth, and destroy mortal discord with immortal harmony,— the grand verities of being."

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