Article December 25, 1965 Issue

Our Christmas Sign

CHRISTINE HARRISON

There is an atmosphere of special tenderness associated with the Christmas season, a feeling of reverence for childlike simplicity and innocence that transcends the merely material and traditional concept of festivities. Hymn No. 170 in the Christian Science Hymnal, adapted from a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, includes these words:

The outward symbols disappear
From him whose inward sight is clear,

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