CMP Review 2025-12-02

December 2, 2025

Elizabeth Steer, a Charlotte Mason College student of 1940, summarized the heart of a Charlotte Mason education: “She [Mason] thought out a logical scheme of pedagogy. It all started with her Christian beliefs in the Bible and from there… she wrote out her philosophy based on that.”

The quiet season of Advent is a wonderful time to return to the source of Miss Mason’s philosophy. It all begins with the revelation of God in Christ. Few in Mason’s inner circle understood this better than her friend Rev. Francis Lewis.

In this first week of Advent we share Lewis’s powerful 1924 Parents’ Review article entitled “The Manifestation of Christ in Worship.” It was published once for the Charlotte Mason community of his generation. Today we share this piece for the first time to the Charlotte Mason community of today. Find it here.

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