0.0 – Christian Science – Christ & Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy

FAST circling on, from zone to zone, — 
  	     Bright, blest, afar, — 
    O'er the grim night of chaos shone
	   One lone, brave star.

IN tender mercy, Spirit sped
     A loyal ray
To rouse the living, wake the dead,
    And point the Way —  

The Christ-idea, God anoints — 
         Of Truth and Life;
The Way in Science He appoints,
      That stills all strife. 

WHAT the Beloved knew and taught,
        Science repeats,
Through understanding, dearly sought,
       With fierce heart-beats; 

THUS Christ, eternal and divine,
        To celebrate
As Truth demands,---this living Vine
       Ye demonstrate.

 For heaven’s Christus, earthly Eves,
     By Adam bid,
Make merriment on Christmas eves,
     O’er babe and crib.

YET wherefore signalize the birth
        Of him ne’er born?
What can rehearse the glorious worth
       Of his high morn?

CHRIST was not crucified --- that doom
        Was Jesus’ part;
For Sharon’s rose must bud and bloom
       In human heart. *

 Forever present, bounteous, free,
     Christ comes in gloom;
And aye, with grace towards you and me,
     For health makes room.

* “God was manifest in the flesh.” ---  St. Paul.

THUS olden faith’s pale star now blends
        In seven-hued white!
Life, without birth and without end,
        Emitting light!

FOR Christian Science brings to view
         The great I Am, ---
Omniscient power, --- gleaming through
       Mind, mother, man.

 As in blest Palestina’s hour,
     So in our age,
‘T is the same hand unfolds His power, 
     And writes the page.

TO-DAY, as oft, away from sin
        Christ summons thee!
Truth pleads to-night: Just take Me in
       No mass for me!

NO blight, no broken wing, no moan,
        Truth’s fane can dim;
Eternal swells Christ’s music-tone,
       In heaven’s hymn.