"IN different ages the divine idea assumes different forms, according to humanity's needs. In this age it assumes, more intelligently than ever before, the form of Christian healing. This is the babe we are to cherish. This is the babe that twines its loving arms about the neck of omnipotence, and calls forth infinite care from His loving heart." So states Mary Baker Eddy on page 370 of her "Miscellaneous Writings."
Isaiah prophesied (Isa. 9:6), "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." This prophecy was fulfilled in the birth of Christ Jesus, who grew to manhood and taught not only in the synagogue, but by the wayside, the truth of man's spiritual sonship with God.
John, the beloved disciple, while a prisoner on the Isle of Patmos, visioned a woman to whom would be born a man child who was to rule the earth with "a rod of iron." And thus it was that in the fullness of time the forever truth that God is the only author of man, and that man's continuity with his Father-Mother God is never broken, dawned on the waiting thought of a spiritually-minded woman.
