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Hugh Walpole 24  \nChristmas Eve at Sea  \nThe Rapture of a ChildTestament of Friendship  \nEpilogue  \n.  .John Masefield 26  \nVera Brittain 28  \n.W.M.Thackeray 30  \n# CHRISTMAS DAY\n\nOn the Morning of Christ's NativityPAGEJohn Milton 33  \nOn Christmas DayThomas Trahern 34  \n# The Christmas Sermon\n\nThe Discipline and Culture of theSpiritual LifeA.E.Whitham 35  \nMr.Pepys'Christmas DayThe DiarySamuel Pepys 37  \nThe Christmas Dinner at the HallSketch BookWashington Irving 38  \nThe Cratchits³Christmas DinnerThe Christmas Carol ..Charles Dickens 4I  \nThis Day  \nPoems of ChildhoodSir Frederic Still 43  \n# THE FIRST CHRISTMAS\n\nCarol  \nAnon.Isth Cent.  46  \nIn the Bleak Mid-Winter  \nChristina Georgina Rosetti 7  \n# The House of Christmas\n\n.G.K.Chesterton 49  \nA Moment in TimeThe Rock.  .T.S.Eliot 5I  \nHe Entered the WorldPhilippians and St.John     Moffatt's Translation 52  \nCHR ISTMAS I945  \n66  \n0PF all the old festivals,\"wrote Washington Irving,冬  \"that of Christmas awakens the strongest andthe season for gathering together of family connections,and drawing closer again those bands of kindred heartswhich the cares and pleasures and sorrows of the worldare continually operating to cast loose.\"  \nThese words have a particular significance this Christ-mastide,when multitudes of friends and relatives whohave been whirled apart by the maelstrom of war willbe enabled to come together again,and when countlesshomes whose fellowship has been roughly shattered willfor a few days be knit once more in happy companionship—a joyful augury of their more lasting restoration.  \nSuch reunions will take place in a world where muchhas altered,and in which still more drastic changes areboth inevitable and desirable.In such a changing worldit is wise to keep in especial remembrance those oldfestivals that,abiding the flux of time,link us to thepast,and give us a sense of kinship with the future,however strange in some ways it may prove.Of allsuch festivals Christmas stands out as pre-eminent,rooted in the ancient pagan jubilations of the wintersolstice,enriched by the Christian meaning which wasgrafted on to the old co","cbCaii8KbVPEEKoQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaii8KbVPEEKoQ","pdf",1845312,56,"English","# Christmas 1945 by F. 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