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We are on the eve of another calendar year

From the January 1894 issue of The Christian Science Journal


We are on the eve of another calendar year. According to the human estimate of time, we are about to enter upon a new year, the year 1894.

Do we bear in mind when we pen this symbol of time that we are recording the fact that eighteen hundred and ninety-four years ago Jesus of Nazareth was born; that his birth so impressed itself upon the thought of the age that it established a new calendar and changed the long established method of computing time?

What an event was this even from the secular standpoint, and how it should inspire all to a high conception and just recognition of the deep import of his coming! If his coming wrought so great a change and meant so much in a secular sense, what shall be said of its ineffable purport in the spiritual sense?

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