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Christmas Bird Release Custom at Rheims Cathedral

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 10, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 17.

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Christmas Bird Release Custom at Rheims Cathedral

It was formerly the custom at Rheims, on Christmas morning, in the cathedral of that city, to loose birds out of a cage, as emblems of what Christ does for the soul, in freeing its hopes and aspirations from imprisonment by despair and sin.