Christmas Builders
BOOKS BY DR. JEFFERSON
The Character of Jesus
Doctrine and Deed
The Minister as Prophet
The New Crusade
Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers
Quiet Talks with Earnest People
Things Fundamental
My Father’s Business
Christmas Builders
Faith and Life
The Old Year and the New
The World’s Christmas Tree
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
New York
To him undoubtedly has God committedthe secret of Christmas
Christmas
Builders
BY
CHARLES EDWARD
JEFFERSON
New York
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Publishers
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1909
D. B. UPDIKE, THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS, BOSTON
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Christmas Builders
There was trouble in the land,all on account of Christmas. Menstood bewildered and women were distracted,not knowing what to do. Thetrouble was that Christmas had becometoo small. Once there was room enoughin it and to spare. Only a few of theinhabitants of the earth brought theirtreasures into it. But little by little theworld learned of the beauty of Christmasuntil everybody, almost, wantedto get into it, and not only into it himself,but he wanted to bring all his relativesand friends, every one of themladen with packages and bundles, untilat last Christmas became crowdedto suffocation. There was not room toturn round. Everybody was so huddledand jostled, and there was so much[Pg 2]scrambling and pushing, that some peoplequite lost their temper, and even inthe palace of Christmas looked sour.
It seems strange that the