Speaking of joyful Christmas celebration for children, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes, "Let it continue thus with one exception: the children should not be taught to believe that Santa Claus has aught to do with this pastime.
The moment you and I become earnest students of Christian Science and begin to apply it to human problems, at that moment in some degree we become practitioners of this Science.
Christmas is for many people a precious reminder of the moment when, through Christian Science, the first glimpse of the Christ, the spiritual idea of God, came to them and they were reborn.
I would like to express my gratitude for the love and protection which have come into my life from the understanding I have gained, through the study of Christian Science, of the ever-presence of the infinite divine Mind, God.
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