... I Christmas, O\c1l more the wheel of Time brings round Christmas, and with it a slight cessation of the daily struggle. The unanimity with which all classes devote themselves to festivity and social pleasures is a welcome sign, amid much that has an opposite ...

... believe. Peter had , been pantaloon at our house for years, And he continued to be engaged for Christmas long after he was past his a work. But a Christmas came when even long and faith- , ful services would no longer balance Peter's infirmity, which ...

... CHRISTMAS 1857 AND CHRISTMAS 1858. .. ^ . . . . . .. . . - I 1 One of the most natural, and not the least profit- e able uses to which the present season may be put, is I ! that of taking the opportunity it affords, by comparing d each Christmas with ...

... CHRISTMAS WORK & CHRISTMNIAS 2 - WATS. { sca BREAKFASTS FOR THE POOR. A Mhe For several years past a number of influentialI ofgentlemen have formed a committee for the purpose IL List of giving a6 substantial Christmnas breakfast to thie!L ter poorer ...

... CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CKRISTPJAS NUMPEfRS. itt the production of these annual gifts w-e hail thought that designers hail exaaustel ti!e resources of art ; bue year after year fresh islscus show that the worlds of nature and of imagination ihave new beauities ...

... direction to the Christmas sentiment. At present their is no such sentiment ; at least, there is none to be traced in the Christmas publications. Taken as a whole, these are but ordinary stuff. No great writer n )w uses the Christmas cnn ial as a vehicle ...

... to our humble history ef the Merry Christmas Holy.tide Of ail the old festivals that of Christmas excites the strongest, warmest, and dearest associations. The first foot- steps we find of.the observation of Christmas Day are in the second century, about ...

... WEDNEJSDAY, DEcRMDTIn 26Tl1, 1883. ?? _ _- CHRISTMAS. Has Christmas degenerated as a social institu- tion ? As an ecclesiastical season it is, of course, as universally and heartily observed as ever. Our churches are as well filled as of old, the services ...

... CHRISTMAS. VLL55 OA S04 X.. . 0 The term Christmas is derived trom the Latin Church-it ri I n is properly Christi Massa (the Mass of Christ.) J In former times, the celebration of Christmas began in the M! latter part of the previous ?? Eve, The house ...

... to the comifort of the inmates, and Miss Gray, of maui Sowerhy, sent each of the inmates a Christmas card and be an eppropriate Christmas letter. On Christmas Eve Mr. be Robert Holyday sent his usual supply of ginger- Sn bedand cheese for the use of the ...

... .- tHE gORTE1ERN CHO YEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1870, I' : CHRISTMAS. CHRISTMAS is here once more, ana again we look out on a stormy world which seems even less to deserve the name of Christendom than at any former period of its history. Everywhere there ...

... le to tile season, ninece-pies, and vishes for 1 a merry Christmas and a happy New-year. It is only in the more primitive parts of the country that the oldien customs romain. 'The Christmas carols whichl were sulig about from door to door, for a week ...