A Little Book for Christmas by Cyrus Townsend Brady
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A Little Book for Christmas
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Title: A Little Book for Christmas
Author: Cyrus Townsend Brady
Release Date: March 12, 2005 [EBook #15343]
Language: English
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[Illustration: The author making his book, as pictured by his friend, Will Crawford.]
A Little Book for Christmas
Containing a Greeting, a Word of Advice, Some Personal Adventures, a Carol, a Meditation, and Three Christmas Stories for All Ages
By Cyrus Townsend Brady
Author of "And Thus He Came, A Christmas Fantasy," "Christmas When the West Was Young," etc., etc.
With Illustrations and Decorations by Will Crawford
G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1917
DEDICATED TO MRS. LEONARD L. HILL AND HER CHARMING COMPANIONS OF THE AMERICAN CRITERION SOCIETY OF NEW YORK BY THEIR CHAPLAIN
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PREFACE
Christmas is one of the great days of obligation and observance in the Church of which I am a Priest; but it is much more than that, it is one of the great days of obligation and observance in the world. Furthermore it is one of the evidences of the power of Him Whose birth we commemorate that its observation is not limited by conditions of race and creed. Those who fail to see in Him what we se