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821 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 March 16, 1888, page 166
“Christmas and Sunday” The Signs of the Times, 14, 11.
822 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:-
823 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 …
824 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 …
825 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.
826 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 October 26, 1888, page 656 paragraph 11
… of Christmas, Lent, and the Easter, but strangely omits all mention of the greatest counterfeit of all, namely, the Sunday-sabbath. Mr. Temple’s pamphlet is well …
827 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 December 7, 1888, page 744 paragraph 3
And then let them assemble on Christmas eve, and instead of selfishly receiving, let them, with a perfect heart, bring a willing offering for the foreign missions, and thus be twice blessed.
828 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 December 14, 1888, page 768 paragraph 18
… celebrating Christmas by family gatherings and Christmas trees and giving presents?” is a question which comes to us from one of our readers. For an answer …
829 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 December 21, 1888, page 776 paragraph 1
Rev. H. H. Hinman has an article in a recent number of the Christian sinners are, in which he writes thus concerning Christmas:-
830 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 December 21, 1888, page 776 paragraph 2
… which Christmas is manifestly a sample. If we admit these interpolations in religion, we cannot stop short of entire conformity to all that is laid upon us …
831 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 December 21, 1888, page 776 paragraph 3
… celebrating Christmas is reprehensible (and we do not say that it is not), Sunday keeping is doubly so, for whereas Christmas antagonizes no divine institution …
832 The Signs of the Times, vol. 15 January 7, 1889, page 10 paragraph 46
… between Christmas and National Reform, and yet there is a natural relation which writers on Christmas do not seem able to escape.” True; there is a natural relation.Both …
833 The Signs of the Times, vol. 15 January 14, 1889, page 23 paragraph 20
… , like Christmas, it has nothing to sustain it but lying tradition. The Scriptures reveal naught of all this. Christmas and Sunday are both children of the Papacy …
834 The Signs of the Times, vol. 15 April 8, 1889, page 201 paragraph 43
… last Christmas. We have never seen anything that more fully exhibits the weakness of the claims for the first day of the week as a day above other working-days …
835 The Signs of the Times, vol. 15 April 8, 1889, page 201 paragraph 44
… that Christmas should come on the day of Him whose birth we celebrate. What added impressions to the sacredness of the day would be given, what increased delight …
836 The Signs of the Times, vol. 19 January 16, 1893, page 119 paragraph 18
… , at Christmas, the Epiphany, Easter, and Pentecost, and directed that on those days the theaters should be closed, not only to the Christians, but to the impious …
837 The Signs of the Times, vol. 23 March 18, 1897, page 164 paragraph 2
… . On Christmas night, 1702, he cut to pieces all the Turks he could find in his dominions.
838 Sunday: The Origin of its Observance in the Christian Church, p. 72.3 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
This spirit of concession to paganism was manifested in the adoption of the heathen festival which now bears the name of Christmas. The following is from Dr. Schaff:—
839 Sunday: The Origin of its Observance in the Christian Church, p. 72.4 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
“The Christmas festival was probably the Christian transformation or regeneration of a series of kindred heathen festivals—the Saturnalia, Sigillaria …
840 Sunday: The Origin of its Observance in the Christian Church, p. 73.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… the Christmas festival, plainly declares that it was borrowed from the heathen, and that it was in honor of the birthday of the sun, the orb of day, and not the …