Dear Friend,
In an article titled “Christmas,” Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “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” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 320). And in the same article she rejoiced in the increasing “triumphs of Truth over error, of health over sickness, of Life over death, and of Soul over sense” through the practice of Christian Science.
From the standpoint of material sense, it may sometimes seem that error, evil, is winning. But as evil becomes more aggressive and destructive, it exposes itself as only able to destroy itself and its own material sense of substance. Forever intact is the spiritual (the only real) substance and consciousness of God’s creation, including every one of His dear children.
