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The star and the scepter

From the December 1979 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Christmas! A season of joy and the giving and receiving of gifts. But so much more.

A festival of commemoration when the ancient story is retold of how wise men from the East followed a star to Bethlehem and honored a newborn child with royal offerings of gold and frankincense and myrrh. All this, but even more. Christmas has deep significance not only for what happened and what people did in the past, but for what the event should point the way for us to do today.

Later, when that same child was more widely acknowledged as the Son of God, he is represented as saying: "He that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations....And I will give him the morning star." Rev. 2:26, 28; That is just as much a promise to us now as it was to the people of the first century to whom it was first given. Surely, no greater gifts were ever promised or given to mankind than the scepter of dominion and the star of Christian healing.

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