The Sermon, "The Personal and Impersonal Saviour," that occupied the leading place in the February Journal, is the author's worthy Christmas gift to the world. To those who have sat in her class-room it has a special value, because it partially embodies in words, what have been, till now, only ineffaceable impressions of her teaching of the Saviour of Science. But to the universal Christ thought this sermon has a wider relation, whose value and significance can only be seen in the measure that its conception becomes real to individual consciousness.
It will be useful to recall for those who have not yet read the sermon the following passages from it.
"He was the Way, and must suffer in the flesh to show mortals how to escape from the sins of the flesh, through suffering." "After the crucifixion of the personal man, the impersonal Saviour —the divine ideal which leadeth into all Truth— must needs come in Christian Science, or impersonal healing." "This idea, or essence of being, is forever about the Father's business, heralding the Principle of health, holiness, and immortality." "The Science of Truth has appeared in the ripeness of time, and will reappear until it is acknowledged, comprehended, and understood."
