In Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Scrooge's nephew commented about the Christmas in these words: "But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
Has it ever occurred to you, as it did to me quite suddenly one day, that Jesus taught his followers only one prayer—the one we call the Lord's Prayer?
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, we are told, shepherds were inspired by a heavenly messenger to perceive that the event was of vital importance to all the world.
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