Editorial December 24, 1979 Issue

Christmas: reminder of God's great gift

NAOMI PRICE

Christians throughout the world are reminded annually that shepherds and wise men went to Bethlehem to find the Messiah—the one so long foretold to be king of the Hebrew nation. And when they saw the newborn Jesus with his mother, Mary, they had no doubt he was the one "which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:11; They recognized in this infant the promised Saviour. More than a king, he was to bring to mankind the understanding of the sublime nature of God and His creation, and thereby to lead humanity out of mortal bondage.

The miracle of divine grace had occurred, and they knew it. As the Gospel of John puts it: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." John 1:1, 2, 14;

Explaining the spiritual meaning of this Bible passage, Mrs. Eddy writes: " 'The Word was made flesh.' Divine Truth must be known by its effects on the body as well as on the mind, before the Science of being can be demonstrated. Hence its embodiment in the incarnate Jesus,—that life-link forming the connection through which the real reaches the unreal, Soul rebukes sense, and Truth destroys error." Science and Health, p. 350;

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