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THIS IS ALL-HALLOWEEN

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 23, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 49.

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THIS IS ALL-HALLOWEEN.

THE Roman Catholic Church, many centuries ago, finding it impossible, from the great and constantly increasing multitude of the saints, to set apart a separate day for each one, decreed that November 1 should thenceforward be kept as a day in honor of all the saints, and that it should be known as All-Hallowmas or All Saints' Day, and that the night of October 31, immediately preceding it, should thereafter be kept as a vigil and be known as All-Halloween. And these occasions are still observed in the Catholic, Episcopal, and Lutheran Churches.—Detroit Commercial Advertiser.