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761 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 …
762 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.
763 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 …
764 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.
765 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 …
766 The Present Truth, vol. 12 December 31, 1896, page 848 paragraph 18
… before Christmas as “Peace Sunday,” we read: “As Christmas Day approaches, every Christian should carefully cast out of his heart every form of vindictiveness …
767 The Present Truth, vol. 13 January 7, 1897, page 2 paragraph 4
… on Christmas Eve. He said the present condition of the Papacy could not last. He expressed pleasure at the constant devotion to the Holy See of the papal soldiers …
768 The Present Truth, vol. 13 January 7, 1897, page 2 paragraph 8
In an article on “Christmas and Memory,“ in the Christian World, are the following well-known facts about Christmas, which seem to be strangely absent from the memories of most professed Christians:—
769 The Present Truth, vol. 13 January 7, 1897, page 2 paragraph 9
… into Christmas not only late in history but late in the development of the human spirit. And it shares the fate of the late-comer in finding the ground already …
770 The Present Truth, vol. 13 January 7, 1897, page 14 paragraph 5
—London’s Christmas mail has been this year much larger than usual. Wednesday evening, before Christmas Day, a million and a-half of letters were sent out from London.
771 The Present Truth, vol. 13 January 7, 1897, page 14 paragraph 9
… for Christmas, one liner landing 1,500 sacks, containing about 200,000 letters, exclusive of parcels and newspapers. The Christmas mail from this country …
772 The Present Truth, vol. 13 January 21, 1897, page 48 paragraph 7
… . At Christmas time the rivalry is especially pronounced. A newspaper says:—
773 The Present Truth, vol. 13 January 21, 1897, page 48 paragraph 8
… on Christmas Eve (Old Style). The Roman Catholics oppose the entry of the Greeks into the church through a certain door, and the Turkish authorities were obliged …
774 The Present Truth, vol. 13 February 11, 1897, page 94
“The Christmas Sacrifice” The Present Truth, 13, 6.
775 The Present Truth, vol. 13 February 11, 1897, page 94 paragraph 2
… that Christmas feasting is deadly in its effects. In Christmas week, commencing 27th, there were 1,136 deaths; in the three subsequent weeks, there were 722 …
776 The Present Truth, vol. 13 February 11, 1897, page 94 paragraph 3
… our Christmas festivities will scarcely bear favourable comparison, in the matter of the destruction of human life, with the ancient Juggernaut festivals …
777 The Present Truth, vol. 13 December 2, 1897, page 759 paragraph 4
… (except Christmas Day) as days of fasting and abstinence, both as regards food and amusements, such as dinner parties, garden parties, theatres, dancing, shooting …
778 The Present Truth, vol. 13 December 9, 1897, page 782 paragraph 7
-There are rumours of a great strike of railway workers about Christmas. The companies say they cannot grant the men’s demands, and thousands of men have given their names to a strike programme.
779 The Present Truth, vol. 13 December 9, 1897, page 784 paragraph 1
Several Roman Catholic societies in America are, it is announced, to give the Pope a Christmas present of “a cross of gold set with ninety diamonds,“ valued at ?9,000. Our readers may make their own comments.
780 The Present Truth, vol. 13 December 23, 1897, page 804 paragraph 1
A morning paper, which makes a specialty of its literary page, says in reviewing the Christmas literature for boys:—