With
what awe and wonder the startled shepherds must have listened on that first Christmas morning to the angelic message! "Suddenly," says Luke, "there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
The
following words by Mary Baker Eddy point the way to a happy Christmas in the wake of war: "To-day the watchful shepherd shouts his welcome over the new cradle of an old truth.
The
feeling of weariness, of stagnation or overburdened progress, cannot be predominant in the lives of those who are radically dependent upon God and this fact points the way to release from these unprofitable states of human thought.
In
the light of Christian Science, man, the image and likeness of his Father-Mother God is seen as changeless, perfect, harmonious, happy, loving, and eternal.
