With
characteristic consideration Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, authorizes and encourages celebration of Christmas for the children in the following words.
Much
of the difficulty in which mortals find themselves involved is due to the belief that there are minds many, existing apart from and entirely unrelated to the all-knowing, ever-present, omnipotent divine Mind, the origin of all true thoughts or ideas.
Every
hour of the day humanity is tacitly admitting the influence of power of some kind, and the general admission is that two conflicting powers, good and evil, are simultaneously in operation.
When
Paul wrote in his epistle to the Ephesians, "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another," he probably meant just what he said; for in his letter to the Colossians he wrote, "Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds.
