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721 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 28, 1893, page 613
“What Is Christmas?” The Present Truth 9, 39.
722 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.
723 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 …
724 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:-
725 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 …
726 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 28, 1893, page 613 paragraph 11
… says, Christmas was adopted after the close of persecution, when abhorrence of everything heathen had ceased. There is not the slightest question but that …
727 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 28, 1893, page 613 paragraph 12
… became Christmas, was “in honour of the unconquered sun.” In heathen times, when sun-worship was universal, there was a festival in the latter part of December …
728 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 28, 1893, page 614 paragraph 5
… became Christmas, and so it was very conveniently adopted as the birthday of John the Baptist, and is known as St. John’s day. Most of the other church festivals …
729 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 28, 1893, page 614 paragraph 7
… that Christmas had ever been anything else.
730 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 28, 1893, page 614 paragraph 9
… not Christmas a Christian festival now, since it is associated only with the birth of Christ?” It is just as much a Christian institution as a statue of the Emperor …
731 The Present Truth, vol. 10 January 11, 1894, page 30 paragraph 35
-Twenty-nine million letters passed through the General. Post Office in London at Christmas, compared with 32,000,000 last year.
732 The Present Truth, vol. 10 January 11, 1894, page 30 paragraph 57
… at Christmas. The last survivor cut the rope which held them together, to rid himself of his two dead comrades. Another party ascended the Alps with the intention …
733 The Present Truth, vol. 10 January 11, 1894, page 32 paragraph 2
… of Christmas, in the colony of Massachusetts, and then says: “At the present day nowhere in the world is the Christmas festival observed more generally and …
734 The Present Truth, vol. 10 January 11, 1894, page 32 paragraph 6
… the Christmas services which have met the eyes of some newspaper readers, was the spectacle of a preacher, “wearing the magnificent cape of cloth of gold and …
735 The Present Truth, vol. 10 January 18, 1894, page 46 paragraph 44
… on Christmas Day to anathematize the French for their invasion of Russia in 1812. The traditional prayer was omitted this Christmas for the first time, owing …
736 The Present Truth, vol. 10 January 25, 1894, page 62 paragraph 8
-A severe earthquake shock occurred at Yamagata, in Japan, on Christmas eve, doing considerable damage to property.
737 The Present Truth, vol. 10 February 1, 1894, page 69 paragraph 8
… on Christmas day for the priests in the churches of St. Petersburg, during the celebration of High Mass, to say a prayer anathematising the French for their …
738 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 20, 1894, page 805
“Christmas Thoughts” The Present Truth 10, 51.
739 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 20, 1894, page 805
ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS
740 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 20, 1894, page 805 paragraph 2
… of Christmas in supposed commemoration of the birth of Christ is one of the easiest ways in which a person can make himself believe that he is religious, the …