NOTE OF APPRECIATION
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The editors of this volume desire to express their deep appreciation to the authors and publishers whose permissions for use of copyright stories have been so courteously and generously granted. Without this splendid spirit of coöperation this collection of Christmas stories would have been impossible.
CONTENTS
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THE CANDLE IN THE FOREST Temple Bailey 3
CHRISTMAS ON THE SINGING RIVER Jefferson Lee Harbour 22
THE SHEPHERD WHO WATCHED BY NIGHT Thomas Nelson Page 38
CHRISTMAS AT THE TRIMBLES’ Ruth McEnery Stuart 55
THE GIFT OF THE MANGER Edith Barnard Delano 77
GOD REST YOU, MERRY CHRISTIANS George Madden Martin 92
TO SPRINGVALE FOR CHRISTMAS Zona Gale 106
EMMY JANE’S CHRISTMAS Julia B. Tenney 118
DAVID’S STAR OF BETHLEHEM Christine Whiting Parmenter 122
A GOD IN ISRAEL Norman Duncan 141
VAN VALKENBERG’S CHRISTMAS GIFT Elizabeth G. Jordan 171
A BEGGAR’S CHRISTMAS Edith Wyatt 187
A CHRISTMAS MYSTERY William J. Locke 201
A CHRISTMAS CONFESSION Agnes McClelland Daulton 222
THE DAY OF DAYS Elsie Singmaster 235
HOLLY AT THE DOOR Agnes Sligh Turnbull 247
TEACHER JENSEN Karin Michaelis 267
HONORABLE TOMMY Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 279
THE SAD SHEPHERD Henry van Dyke 301
CHRISTMAS BREAD Kathleen Norris 327
CHRISTMAS IN MODERN STORY