Page 158 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

December 1949
My dear friends,

Loving greetings to you all! My earnest wish at this season is that you
may have peace, love and abundance now, and in the years to come.
All over the world at this time millions of people are coming together to
rejoice. There is a fever of delight, inspiration and goodwill. How could it be

otherwise when at this time everyone is captivated by that beautiful story of that
first Christmas nearly two thousand years ago in which the whole world was
presented with the key to Love, Faith and Life.

The shepherds on their knees with their flocks peacefully grazing
around them, the wise men with their gifts stand before Mary with her
child in her arms. Motherhood was lifted to the highest pinnacle of human

thought, the Christ is born through woman, the great Truth was revealed
through woman, that in every child born there the Christ dwells.
This is the highest form of human thought that enables all to reach their

godhead through the power of “faith.” Those who do believe and those who may
not believe agree on the thing that on this Christmas night long ago in Bethlehem
the vision of goodwill towards all men shone out over the world.
The World is far from the perfect vision of a world ruled by Love,

“Faith” and justice, there man loves God with all his heart and his neighbour as
himself. This ever-flowing Font of Living Water is offered to mankind as a
free gift leading to Eternal Life.

In a world torn with strife, greed and separation man still raises his eyes
to see the Star of Bethlehem still shining as gloriously as it did on the first
Christmas night, not only is it still here but it is brought nearer to us by the faith
of the Man of Galilee. His faith was the awareness of his oneness with the

Father, Faith the awareness of the “Presence” of God.
This faith is not understood by the majority of people. It is not a, faith in
some outside God, a faith in any individual or in any external agency, nor is it a

faith in anything relative to the self—the Christ within, but the awareness of the
Self—the Christ, the indwelling Presence of the Father, not as a separate Being
but as “One” in eternal unity so that whatsoever you ask believing you have

received so shall you have.
Lack of faith is when the self is affected by fear, doubt, not knowing
that there is only one Substance and one Christ operating. Therefore faith

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