The book of Christmas; (1888)
The fact that the Bible gives no sanction whatever to the celebration of the birth of Christ, not even mentioning when it occurred, is sufficient evidence that the Lord did not wish to have it celebrated. Whatever the Bible does not mention is forbidden. There is only one thing that we can know with any certainty about the birth of Christ, and that is that it did not take place on the twenty-fifth of December, nor in the month of December.
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: And the angel said unto them, Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
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For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. Winter in Palestine is the season of rain. Snow falls, and there are sharp frosts. Christ was undoubtedly born in the spring or summer, although at what day nobody knows, for no record has been kept. No one thought of celebrating any day as the birthday of Christ until about three hundred years after His ascension. Christmas was introduced in Antioch about the year ; in Alexandria, where the feast of the Epiphany was celebrated as the nativity of Christ, not till about Schaff also tells us something about the origin of the Christmas festival.
This connection accounts for many customs of the Christmas season, like the giving of presents to children and to the poor, the lighting of wax tapers, perhaps also the erection of Christmas trees. Had the Christmas festival arisen in the period of the persecution, its derivation from these pagan festivals would be refuted by the reigning abhorrence of everything heathen; but in the Nicene age this rigidness of opposition between the church and the world was in a great measure softened by the general conversion of the heathen.
Schaff says, Christmas was adopted after the close of persecution, when abhorrence of everything heathen had ceased. There is not the slightest question but that Christmas is of purely heathen origin, and is one of the things, which marked the progress of the transformation of Paganism into Roman Catholicism.
The night before Christmas, or, A visit of St. Nicholas.
In the paragraph quoted above, Dr. They continued to worship the sun, but were told that in doing so they were worshipping Christ.
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Mosheim tells us that even in the second century, a large part of the Christian observances and institutions had the aspect of the pagan mysteries. Dean Milman shows this very fully in the following: Panegyrical operations were delivered by the best preachers.
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The day closed with an open banquet, in which all the worshippers were invited to partake. The wealthy heathens had been accustomed to propitiate the Manes of their departed friends by these costly festivals; the banquet was almost an integral part of the heathen religious ceremony. The custom passed into the church; and with the pagan feeling, the festival assumed a pagan character of gaiety and joyous excitement, and even of luxury. As the evening drew on, the solemn and religious thoughts gave way to other emotions; the wine flowed freely, and the health of the martyrs were pledged, not unfrequently, to complete inebriety.
All the luxuries of the Roman banquet were imperceptibly introduced. Dances were admitted, pantomimic spectacles were exhibited, the festivals were prolonged till late in the evening, or to midnight, so that other criminal irregularities profaned, if not the sacred edifice, its immediate neighborhood. The specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher, classroom teacher, institution or organization should be applied.
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