AN American periodical, The Ladies' Home Journal, once carried an article written especially for it by the revered Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. The article was titled "What Christmas Means to Me" and was subsequently reprinted in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (pp. 261-263).
Students of Christian Science ever cherish this beautiful, spiritual message. They find therein inspiration not only for the Christmas season, but for all seasons, since Mrs. Eddy brings out several thoughts about the healing Christ, Truth, which are of inestimable value to the student of Christian Science. She writes, "To me Christmas involves an open secret, understood by few —or by none—and unutterable except in Christian Science." Then she continues: "Christ was not born of the flesh. Christ is the Truth and Life born of God—born of Spirit and not of matter. Jesus, the Galilean Prophet, was born of the Virgin Mary's spiritual thoughts of Life and its manifestation."
Thus we see that the man Jesus was spiritually endowed from birth to present to humanity the healing Christ, Truth. The seasoned student of Christian Science does not talk of Christ when he is referring only to the human Jesus. For instance, he would not say that Christ died on the cross. That tragic experience belonged to Jesus. The orthodox Christian in quoting some statement of the Master's may say that Christ said thus and so; whereas the Christian Scientist will aver that the truths were voiced by Jesus. One of the most important points in the theology of Christian Science is its teaching as to the distinction between Jesus and the Christ.
