Christmas
for the Children
MARY
BAKER EDDY
Methinks the loving parents and
guardians of youth ofttimes query: How shall we cheer the
children's Christmas and profit them withal? The wisdom of
their elders, who seek wisdom of God, seems to have amply
provided for this, according to the custom of the age and to
the full supply of juvenile joy. Let it continue thus with
one exception: the children should not be taught to believe
that Santa Claus has aught to do with this pastime. A deceit
or falsehood is never wise. Too much cannot be done towards
guarding and guiding well the germinating and inclining
thought of childhood. To mould aright the first impressions
of innocence, aids in perpetuating purity and in unfolding
the immortal model, man in His image and likeness. St. Paul
wrote, "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, . . . but when I became a man, I put away
childish things."
Pleasant
View, Concord, N. H.,
December 28, 1905
"Christmas for the
Children" by Mary Baker Eddy
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and
Miscellany, p. 261
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