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The significance of Christmas
Editor’s Note: This Christmas season, we share this piece by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. It was written for the New York World magazine and is included in What Christmas Means to Me and Other Christmas Messages, a compilation of writings on Christmas by Mrs. Eddy. It can also be found in the archives of JSH-Online.com in the December 16, 1905, issue of this magazine and is published in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany on pages 259–260.

December 18, 2017 issue
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From the readers
Donna Black, Ashley Kennedy
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God—‘something’ or all-presence?
Lyle Young
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Immunity from conspiracy
Name Withheld
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Does God hear me?
Heather Bauer
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Lessons of holiday sweetness
Victoria Butler
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Cover to cover
Cathy Fields
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God’s angels come at Christmas—and every day!
Charlene Anne Miller
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Love for community brings healing
Deborah Wright
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Healing of pulled back muscle
Carla Webb-Dardamanis
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Growth on leg healed
Katharine Meier
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Grateful for God’s tender care
Camille Lindsay
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'From all that dwell below the skies ...'
Photograph by Steve Ryf
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The tiny cracks inside North Korea
The <i>Monitor’s</i> Editorial Board
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Extinguishing tensions of conflict
Susan Booth Mack Snipes
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The significance of Christmas
Mary Baker Eddy