"Happy
Christmas!" On December twenty-fifth of each year this greeting is on the lips of countless persons who have determined to make this day a happy one for themselves and others.
One
of the many blessings Christian Science offers is the way by which an individual whose happiness, success, and progress seem to be blighted by the wrongdoing of another, can mentally free himself from this blighted sense through an understanding of God and man.
The
enlightenment of the human race may be traced through the quality of its prayers, from the superstition which offered human sacrifice to appease a god of darkness and terror to the scientific exegesis of prayer given by Mary Baker Eddy in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
At
this season of the year, in conformity with an established American custom, the people of the United States are summoned by Presidential proclamation to a day of national thanksgiving.
The
student of Christian Science will do well to remember that evil, the negative mortal mind, alias the material senses, claims for itself everything that belongs to God, immortal Mind.
A great
document and charter of liberty, in fact, one of the first declarations of independence in recorded thought, is to be found in the Bible in the eighteenth chapter of Ezekiel.