Throughout the world at the Christmas season the name and nature of Jesus the Christ is silently and publicly reverenced. Paeans of praise resound in anthems that are sung in holy remembrance of him who trod earth's pathway in humblest guise, but who won a mighty and crowning victory over the problem of earthly existence. His victory was so complete and the power which he manifested so supreme, that he has been accepted by Christendom as the Founder of Christianity; and a new era, dating time anew, was thereby ushered in.
And what was there about the life of this mighty but meek Nazarene so unparalleled as to demand such recognition? Why did his earthly experience so completely overshadow that of any others who have ever trod this human pathway? Was it not because he proved the power of God to be supreme? Did he not in every instance prove good to be the victor over evil, Truth the victor over error, Spirit the victor over matter? The Gospels are rich with this evidence. Christ Jesus vanquished death through his understanding of Life as eternal; and his ascension proved matter to be unreal and unsubstantial. His was an unparalleled experience, and one which will continue to illumine the pathway of mankind, awakening men to the great truth of spiritual reality and the unreality of seeming material existence.
It is a fact already accepted by a great portion of humankind that Mary's conception of Jesus was the outcome of her clear understanding of God as Spirit, thus proving Spirit to be the creator of man. Jesus also understood and taught that God is Spirit, and that His creation is spiritual; and he denounced materiality as of the devil, expressing the lusts of evil. He also spoke of evil as "a murderer from the beginning." who "abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him," and named it "a liar, and the father of it." This discernment of spiritual reality and material unreality which Jesus possessed, was the basis of his understanding of Truth; and this idea of Truth was the Christ-idea which inspired him, and which Christian Science interprets and accepts as bestowing upon him the power he so supremely manifested.
