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741 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 20, 1894, page 806
CHRISTMAS AT THE REFORMATION
742 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 20, 1894, page 806 paragraph 3
… , of Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide, and other festivals, commonly called holy days, have been heretofore superstitiously used and observed; be it ordained …
743 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 20, 1894, page 806 paragraph 7
… to Christmas. The reformers were not willing to carry the reformation so far as to return to the Scriptures as the only guide in all matters of religion. They …
744 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 20, 1894, page 806 paragraph 8
… . The Christmas festival was originally an unclean heathen festival, and nothing can make it clean. Heathenism can never become Christianity. The power that …
745 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 20, 1894, page 806
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
746 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 20, 1894, page 806 paragraph 10
… about Christmas gifts? Are they also to be condemned?” That depends. The Lord assures us that “it is more blessed to give than to receive;” but He makes a distinction …
747 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 20, 1894, page 806 paragraph 11
… that Christmas giving, as generally practised, is productive of only evil. Selfishness and jealousy are fostered by means of it. The child is encouraged to …
748 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 20, 1894, page 807 paragraph 2
… that Christmas is by many, perhaps more than in time past, devoted to gifts that will benefit the needy; but while it is better to give at Christmas time than …
749 The Present Truth, vol. 11 January 3, 1895, page 6 paragraph 13
… of Christmas, which is so general, she has a strong hold upon professed Protestants. So the paper that represents that branch of the English Church which would …
750 The Present Truth, vol. 11 January 3, 1895, page 6 paragraph 14
… a Christmas number, and prints a Christmas day sermon: and almost every meeting-house will be opened on Christmas day. This is a more hopeful sign for the recovery …
751 The Present Truth, vol. 11 January 3, 1895, page 14 paragraph 15
… on Christmas day at Dallas, Texas, by the collision of two passenger trains on the Texas Central Reeds. Sixteen people were killed. The accident was due to the …
752 The Present Truth, vol. 11 January 3, 1895, page 14 paragraph 19
… many Christmas presents. Even in London alone they numbered hundreds of thousands, and the various carriers were equally deluged, the vans being engaged …
753 The Present Truth, vol. 11 January 3, 1895, page 16 paragraph 5
… says: “Christmas day is the only day in every year upon which all sorts of conditions of men, willingly or unwillingly, pay some degree of graceful homage to …
754 The Present Truth, vol. 11 January 10, 1895, page 30 paragraph 5
-A lamp exploded at a Christmas party in Oregon U.S.A., setting fire to the hall. Forty-one persons were burned to death, sixteen others being injured.
755 The Present Truth, vol. 11 January 24, 1895, page 55 paragraph 9
… , and Christmas. It is a starting fact, but a fact nevertheless, and one which demands earnest attention, that a great deal of what is commonly supposed to be Christianity …
756 The Present Truth, vol. 11 April 4, 1895, page 214 paragraph 14
… Day, Christmas Day, etc., which are sanctioned by the custom of centuries, and which deserve our serious recognition; but you cannot go behind the general principle …
757 The Present Truth, vol. 12 January 9, 1896, page 30 paragraph 8
-About 85,000,000 Christmas letters and book packets passed through the General Post-office in London. In Manchester over three and a-half millions of Christmas letters passed through the post, half a million more than last year.
758 The Present Truth, vol. 12 January 16, 1896, page 48 paragraph 3
… on Christmas eve, only one other lifeboatman perished during the year. It is impossible for one who realises what war means to feel thrilled at tales of daring …
759 The Present Truth, vol. 12 December 17, 1896, page 803 paragraph 4
… . On Christmas night, 1702, he cut to pieces all the Turks he could find in his dominions.
760 The Present Truth, vol. 12 December 31, 1896, page 846 paragraph 11
… the Christmas season an extra amount yearly, over and above what their ordinary expenditure would be, of ?16,000,000. Of this immense sum the statistics of …