QUITE a few people are prone to revere the career of Jesus as sacred history rather than as indicative of the demonstrable, healing Principle, divine Love, to be fully utilized and enjoyed by every Christian today. They are apt to commemorate Christmas in a reminiscent way, and by outward festivities, rather than in the demonstrable way of glorifying God and emulating the example of Christ Jesus by pure thinking and definite overcoming of material discords. Yet the illumination of the perennial Christmastide is with us to-day, for in eternal Truth there is no time, and no obscuration of spiritual facts.
On page 320 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy writes, "The star that looked lovingly down on the manger of our Lord, lends its resplendent light to this hour: the light of Truth, to cheer, guide, and bless man as he reaches forth for the infant idea of divine perfection dawning upon human imperfection, —that calms man's fears, bears his burdens, beckons him on to Truth and Love and the sweet immunity these bring from sin, sickness, and death." It is our privilege to claim and faithfully demonstrate this "sweet immunity" from sin, sickness, and death, from false indulgences, and to prove that His good pleasure is all-satisfying to spiritual sense. Spiritual man knows nothing of corporeality, for he is the limitless expression of infinite Mind.
On the basis of man's immortality, let us claim immunity from the general belief in chronology and its tracery on the human body. Through the resplendence of "the morning star" of spiritual illumination let us expect to arrest evidences of old age and helplessness. Is not divine Love, together with all the qualities it exhales, everlastingly expressed through spiritual man? There is no deterioration in spiritual cause and effect, for the graces of Spirit are forever renewed.
