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801 The Signs of the Times, vol. 13 December 15, 1887, page 761 paragraph 5
… on Christmas, nothing need be said. The plan has been tested abundantly. Some have thought that the children would be disappointed to see a Christmas tree …
802 The Signs of the Times, vol. 13 December 15, 1887, page 761 paragraph 6
… . Their Christmas offerings may be sent to either of the Publishing Houses, or to the nearest Tract Society Secretary, and they will all be credited to the Foreign …
803 The Signs of the Times, vol. 13 December 29, 1887, page 800 paragraph 8
At the Howard Street M. E. Church, Rev. Dr. Harcourt preached a sermon Christmas-day on the immortality of the soul, which question he settled to his own satisfaction, as follows:-
804 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 February 17, 1888, page 112 paragraph 3
… “grand Christmas number” of the Messenger of Wisdom and Israel’s Guide has been sent to us. Like most papers of the class indicated by its name it hails from …
805 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 9, 1888, page 150
“Christmas and Sunday” The Signs of the Times, 14, 10.
806 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 9, 1888, page 150 paragraph 23
Soon after the holidays, the following item entitled “Christmas,” appeared in Messiah’s Advocate, a journal published in Oakland:-
807 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 9, 1888, page 150 paragraph 24
… that Christmas is purely a Popish festival, and we think the sooner Protestants cease to adopt Papal customs, the wiser and better they will be.”
808 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 9, 1888, page 151 paragraph 1
… that Christmas is purely a Popish festival, and we think that Protestants ought to have nothing to do with Papal customs. Yet we are sorry to know that the greater …
809 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 9, 1888, page 151 paragraph 2
Concerning the origin of Christmas, McClintock and Strong’s Encyclopedia says:-
810 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 9, 1888, page 151 paragraph 3
… of Christmas is not of divine appointment, nor is it of New Testament origin. The day of Christ’s birth cannot be ascertained from the New Testament, or, indeed …
811 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 9, 1888, page 151 paragraph 8
… Christian Christmas-festival in December. As the new birth of the sun-god was celebrated at the end of December, so, likewise, in Christ, the new Sun, in the field …
812 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 9, 1888, page 151 paragraph 9
The Encyclopedia Britannica, after mentioning the obscurity in which the origin of the Christmas festival rests, says:-
813 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 9, 1888, page 151 paragraph 11
… Christmas decoration. McClintock and Strong’s Encyclopedia (article Christmas) says that the dressing of houses with mistletoe on Christmas day …
814 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 9, 1888, page 151 paragraph 12
Bingham, in his “Antiquities of the Christian Church” (book 20, chapter 4), gives the following account of the status of Christmas in the ancient church:-
815 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 9, 1888, page 151 paragraph 15
If it be asked how the Christmas festival came to be adopted by the church, we can answer only in the following words of Dr. Killen’s in the preface to his “Ancient Church“:-
816 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 16, 1888, page 166
“Christmas and Sunday” The Signs of the Times, 14, 11.
817 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 16, 1888, page 166 paragraph 24
As Christmas, though under a different name, was observed as a festival by the heathen long before its adoption by the Christian church, so Sunday was from the earliest ages a heathen festival day. Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary says of Sunday:-
818 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 16, 1888, page 167 paragraph 7
… reject Christmas as a heathen festival. The evidence that Sunday was adopted into the Christian church direct from heathenism is more positive and more …
819 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 May 4, 1888, page 202 paragraph 7
… so Christmas, Lent, Good Friday, Easter, and “Holy Week” are coming to be devoutly observed. In proof thereof we publish the following from the Congregationalist …
820 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 September 14, 1888, page 576 paragraph 8
… and Christmas; Sun-worship and Sunday; Growth of Papal Assumption; Appendices.