Article December 22, 2014 ISSUE

The Cry of Christmas-tide

Mary Baker Eddy

In commemoration of Christmas and its true meaning, we are pleased to reprint “The Cry of Christmas-tide” by Mary Baker Eddy. This article originally appeared in The Christian Science Journal of January 1886 and is part of Mrs. Eddy’s Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896 (pp. 369–370).

Metaphysics, not physics, enables us to stand erect on sublime heights, surveying the immeasurable universe of Mind, peering into the cause which governs all effects, while we are strong in the unity of God and man. There is “method” in the “madness” of this system,—since madness it seems to many onlookers. This method sits serene at the portals of the temple of thought, while the leaders of materialistic schools indulge in mad antics. Metaphysical healing seeks a wisdom that is higher than a rhubarb tincture or an ipecacuanha pill. This method is devout enough to trust Christ more than it does drugs.

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