What
comfort and inspiration for the earnest follower of Christ Jesus shine through the messages of the great Apostle of the Gentiles! Although a giant intellectually and one whose demonstrations of divine power naturally raised him to a position of leadership among the early Christians, Paul never seems to have lost what the poet calls "the common touch"—the tender ability to go, like the Samaritan, understandingly where his hearers were.
"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.