The Soul Of Christmas PDF Download

Excerpt from The Soul's Christmas Christmas? The manger has shed a radiance on humanity never seen there before. The bright ness of its glory has descended into cheerless abodes and haunts of misery. It tamed the rude soul of the barbarian. It kept alive a spark of kindness in the darkest ages. It predicted for the lowest a destiny of which the highest dared not dream. It shone through the spirit of Chivalry, in its dedication to the cause of the weak, the injured, the oppressed, the unprotected. Where, in all literature, is there anything more beautiful than that weird little Christ mas dream of the common people, which Shake speare, with exquisite skill, has brought over to us from the age of superstition? Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, N'o fairy takes nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.