Christmas Gift From The Mountain Inspires Brotherhood
A reflective piece on the Christmas gifts from manger and tomb, urging focus on the mountain lesson of meekness and the Golden Rule. It highlights Jesus teaching peace on earth, brotherhood, and the need to live by His words, not merely celebrate the season. The sermon ties Advent and Easter into a single moral call for universal brotherhood and service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Godfrey of
Boulounge
Peter the Hermit
Janus Temple
Charles M. Sheldon
Brotherhood
Christmas in a Neches pine logging camp tale
The piece recalls a Christmas celebration at a Neches River logging camp after the Civil War. Settlers from Mississippi and the Carolinas gather in a log house built for the event, decorate with leaves and holly, erect a pine tower with a Bethlehem star, and share gifts, a possum dinner, and old time dances. Local soldiers, hunting dogs, and a fiddle provide entertainment as residents endure cold, sleet, and hardship with a festive spirit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neches
Texas
Long Leaf Pine
Idewater
Beau
Caneyussell’s
Tyler
Mississippi
Carolinas
Santa Claus
Samon
Hood
xXas
William W. White
Sharpsburgh
Moscow
Charleston
Shreveport
Louisiana
Jim Kirby
Caney Creek
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J. H. Lowry
Mary
Nazareth
Bethlehem
Old
Judea
Bethlehem Star In the Pines
By Austin Callan
Star of Bethlehem
Eye of Man
Seamans
Lee
Virginia
Piney Woods