Christians and Christmas Observation

Just after the Christmas season a question was received by this depart­ment the gist of which is: “How can Christian people justify themselves in the manner in which they observe Christmas, namely, by means of exchanging material gifts and displaying Christmas trees in their homes.” A fine letter of information, which also sheds much light on the above mentioned problem, accompanied the question. The letter was occasioned by the quite general practice in our Chris­tian homes touched upon in...