Wright – Christ & Christmas by Helen M Wright

Introduction

During the nineteenth century and the first decade of
the twentieth century the foundations of the modem world were laid. Electricity was harnessed; automobiles and airplanes were invented; Einstein formulated the special theory of relativity. But the most significant and least recognized contribution was the mighty, crowning and triumphant discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, a discovery that would fulfill Bible revelation and show us
that our own real Mind is God, infinite good.

Mrs. Eddy’s work on earth came as divine revelation.
This is brought out in her statement to James Henry
Wiggin, as reported in My. 318:32. Because Mr. Wiggin had helped Mrs. Eddy, editorially, to make clearer to the man in the street some of her statements in Science and Health, she invited him to visit one of her classes. Mr. Wiggin saw things differently from Mrs. Eddy and when she began her attack on agnosticism, Mr. Wiggin could control himself no longer, and burst out with, “How do
you know there ever was such a man as Christ Jesus?”

It was important to Mrs. Eddy that Christian Scientists, as well as the public in general, have a correct concept of who she was as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, the one chosen to fulfill Jesus’ promise and prophecy of the “Comforter,” who would bring the Second Coming of the Christ, and teach all men their true identity as
one with God, having “the kingdom of God within” their own consciousness as their true Mind.