The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any […]
Christmas Quotes
Forget about the crackers, And forget about the candy; I’m sure a box of chocolates Would never come in handy; I don’t like oranges, I don’t want nuts, And I have got a pocket-knife That almost cuts. But, oh! Father Christmas, if you love me at all, Bring me a big, red india-rubber ball!
Most all the time, the whole year round, There ain’t no flies on me; But jest ‘fore Christmas, I’m as good as I kin be!
Call a truce, then to our labors – let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste; For if “faint and forced the laughter,” and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
I do like Christmas on the whole – In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
In Christmas feasting pray take care; Let not your table be a Snare; but with the Poor God’s Bounty share.
On Christmas day you can’t get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There’s time to cheat him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four.
There are two S-es in “Christmas” and they’re “both” dollar signs.
