To the sincere Christian Scientist Jesus' immaculate conception, divine Fatherhood, and super physical birth, constitute the chief glory of Christianity. So far from depreciating these events, as he is so often mistakenly charged with doing, they have for him a significance and value which were impossible to him until his apprehension was quickened by the teachings of his text-book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, wherein the true intent and meaning thereof became manifest.
As the result of that true apprehension Jesus' life, character and teachings have become his intensest study and the highest aim of his life.
No book extant inculcates such complete self-surrender to the Christ standard as our text-book.
Well may it take its place beside the Bible in our services. Well may these, our text-books, become the Preacher of the Word! With such a Preacher each service is a Christ-mass, each Sabbath a birthday, each day a Bethlehem, whose star of promise, hope, understanding, Light, shines afresh in our consciousness. Let this Christmas be ours perpetually.
