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The Spirit of Christmas |
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A collection of short Christmas works by the author of The Story of the Fourth Wise Man SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS BY HENRY VAN DYKE
[Illustration: (Frontispiece)]
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1911
Copyright, 1905, by Charles Scribner's Sons Published, October, 1905
CONTENTS A DREAM STORY THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL 3 A LITTLE ESSAY CHRISTMAS GIVING AND CHRISTMAS LIVING 33 A SHORT CHRISTMAS SERMON KEEPING CHRISTMAS 45 TWO CHRISTMAS PRAYERS A CHRISTMAS PRAYER FOR THE HOME 51 A CHRISTMAS PRAYER FOR LONELY FOLKS 56
A DREAM STORY
THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL
It was the hour of rest in the Country Beyond the Stars. All the
silver bells that swing with the turning of the great ring of light
which lies around that land were softly chiming; and the sound of
their commotion went down like dew upon the golden ways of the city,
and the long alleys of blossoming trees, and the meadows of asphodel,
and the curving shores of the River of Life. At the hearing of that chime, all the angels who had been working
turned to play, and all who had been playing gave themselves joyfully
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