Search for: Christmas

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 …