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Christmas Gifts and Their Origins

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Dec 20, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 50.

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Christmas Gifts and Their Origins

The gifts connected with the season—the selfish sending and giving of gifts one to another—come down to us from the old heathen Saturnalia, as do also the feasting and revels. They do not in any wise belong to the Biblical event. The only gifts directly connected with the birth of our Lord were the emphasis of God's eternal Gift to man, and the adoration and worship of the shepherds. The gifts of the wise men came sometime in the following month. All these are facts, dear readers. Why not meet them as such? The SIGNS OF THE TIMES would be an unworthy expositor of truth did it hide these facts.