Christian Science fulfills such joy and hope in people who practice its teachings that they are often a bit surprised that these teachings are not more widely accepted. Should this ignorance or rejection of Science discourage those who wish to see everyone benefit by its discovery?
Not at all! We have only to think of Christ Jesus for our answer. He was so little recognized when he walked the earth that his name is barely mentioned by secular historians writing a hundred years or more after his ascension. But then we think of Christmas. Not only is this blessed day still the reminder of Jesus' birth and his holy life; according to Christian Science it also reminds us that the ever-active Christ—the eternal Truth supremely demonstrated by Jesus—is still at work in the affairs of mankind.
The powerful realization "This is Christmas Day" should be cause for the greatest gratitude because it points to the truth of being, which can never be stamped out—the truth that man is God's, Spirit's, own conception. Jesus' virgin birth, his resurrection and ascension above the material sense of life, give us a higher understanding of what man truly is—the spiritual idea of the divine Father-Mother God.
