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701 The Present Truth, vol. 8 December 1, 1892, page 372 paragraph 2
… , at Christmas, the Epiphany, Easter, and Pentecost, and directed that on those days the theatres should be closed, not only to the Christians, but to the impious …
702 The Present Truth, vol. 9 January 12, 1893, page 14 paragraph 9
-Two thousand extra men were required by the London post-office to handle the Christmas mail.
703 The Present Truth, vol. 9 January 12, 1893, page 14 paragraph 11
-A dynamite outrage was perpetrated in Dublin on Christmas Eve. An attempt was made to blow up the Castle, and one detective was killed.
704 The Present Truth, vol. 9 January 26, 1893, page 30 paragraph 12
… , on Christmas Day, in memory of the feat of a former member who, when attacked by a wild boar, is credited with causing its death by thrusting a volume of Aristotle …
705 The Present Truth, vol. 9 January 26, 1893, page 32 paragraph 4
… on Christmas Eve. Although he has been very severe on some of the ways of the church, he has always allowed himself to be a Catholic. He still retains the views …
706 The Present Truth, vol. 9 April 20, 1893, page 118 paragraph 1
… and Christmas was confined to the Roman Catholic Church, and its eldest daughter, the Church of England; but now nearly all the churches of the land make almost …
707 The Present Truth, vol. 9 April 20, 1893, page 118 paragraph 2
… and Christmas; and less than a month ago a body of Congregationalist ministers in the city of Chicago voted “to recommend that so far as practicable Holy Week …
708 The Present Truth, vol. 9 June 29, 1893, page 200 paragraph 3
Then follow New Year’s Day, Christmas day, Easter, etc.
709 The Present Truth, vol. 9 July 27, 1893, page 263 paragraph 1
… and Christmas, which have also been adopted by the chief systems of Christendom.” The explanation is the same that is given by all ecclesiastical historians …
710 The Present Truth, vol. 9 July 27, 1893, page 264 paragraph 1
“Christmas.-At the winter solstice, they celebrated in Pagan Rome the feast of Saturn, the sun god, or Baal of the Babylonians. This feast, as regulated by Caligula …
711 The Present Truth, vol. 9 July 27, 1893, page 264 paragraph 2
… on Christmas Eve and used so long as the festive season lasts, were equally lighted by the Pagans on the eve of the festival of the Babylonian god, to do honour …
712 The Present Truth, vol. 9 November 23, 1893, page 544 paragraph 6
… at Christmas. The Christian Commonwealth states also that curates of some churches where confession cannot be practised, go secretly to confess to Romish …
713 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 7, 1893, page 567
“Christmas in Gaol” The Present Truth 9, 36.
714 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 7, 1893, page 567 paragraph 2
In his account of how he spent Christmas in an gaol, Mr. W. T. Stead pays his respects to gaol chaplains as follows:-
715 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 7, 1893, page 567 paragraph 3
… that Christmas morning in Holloway. I am sure that I was not very wrong in repressing that healthy, instinctive desire to emphasise my protest against his …
716 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 28, 1893, page 613
“What Is Christmas?” The Present Truth 9, 39.
717 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 28, 1893, page 613 paragraph 5
… regard Christmas as a sacred day, and think that labour thereon is a sin. In the Catholic Church it is regarded as far more holy than Sunday.
718 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 28, 1893, page 613 paragraph 8
… find Christmas in Rome, “in the time of the Bishop Liberius, who on the twenty-fifth of December, 360, consecrated Marcella, the sister of St. Ambrose, nun or bride …
719 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 28, 1893, page 613 paragraph 9
Dr. Schaff also tells us something about the origin of the Christmas festival. He says:-
720 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 28, 1893, page 613 paragraph 10
… the Christmas season, like the giving of presents to children and to the poor, the lighting of wax tapers, perhaps also the erection of Christmas trees.... Had …