Christmas Customs and the Roman Catholic Influence
Referring to Christmas, “The Western Watchman declares that ‘the little child is bringing the Protestant world back to the [Roman Catholic] faith. . . Where the cross failed, the crib succeeded. In this country the children of the unchurched millions are taught at this Christmas time the story of Christmas night, and they listen with rapture. . . . Yes, the whole world is very near Catholic the last week of every year. When will it be all the weeks?’” But it is not the Christ-child that is bringing them back to the Roman Catholic faith. The only true conception of the Christ-child is every day in the year. An old Saturnalian feast, professedly Christian, but essentially worldly, is all that brings homage from the world on the 25th of December. That yearly festival is like the weekly Sunday festival. It has no basis in Scripture. It is the tradition which makes void the truth, that is having its influence over a waning Protestantism.