With heartfelt gratitude for the blessed truths that through you have been manifest, and as a slight token of sincere affection, we take advantage of this most joyous period— the commemoration of Christ's nativity, when the heart of the Christian world is brought to a more acute sense of the munificence of God's goodness, and in loving ecstasy throbs with praise and adoration of the Father's boundless and overflowing love, as exemplified through the Son, to convey to you the happy greetings, of a few earnest followers, gathered together in His and thy name—a Bible-and-Science class, holding its conclave here beneath the shadows of this far-away "dome of the continent."
To him who is Life, Love and Truth— Father, Son and Holy Spirit—do we first and above all, owe devotion and praise. He has again manifested His infinite love and watchfulness by renewing the oil in the lamp, causing the Light, which, to material sense, was becoming dim, to appear bright and clear again, enabling us to read once more the loving words and message sent—"Peace on earth and good will towards man." To you, next, do we owe grateful acknowledgement and praise as the instrument of Truth's manifestation; for through a life lovingly devoted to self-sacrifice and spiritual reflection, you brought yourself so far within the pale of His holy will as to become, in a measure greater than others, transparent to the Light; and as such, the reflecting agent of Truth, to all who would see.
It was in the far-off East, in the ages past,
Where the herald of Light appeared,
Which illumined the way to the then known
West,
Where lay the God-inspired.
