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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1929
Page
2
The column reflects on Christmas celebrations across communities, contrasting festive joys in both slave and free lives with Puritan New England disfavor. It emphasizes the Christ Child’s humble birth, the home fireside, and the church pageants marking the season for children and families.
A legend recounts a boy who fills the Baby’s large eyes with unutterable wisdom as he plays a flute. The Baby smiles, the boy’s gift is accepted, and Christmas marks the shift from fear to love in religion, replacing harsh punishments with mercy.
A reflective piece argues against fear based evangelism and promotes Christmas as the birth of Jesus a festival of love freedom and service. It recalls shepherds and wise men, lauds gifts of simplicity, and urges making Christmas a home and church celebration for children. It links Jesus message to end of tyranny fear and oppression.
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