The First Christmas of New England (Musaicum Christmas Specials)

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Гарриет Бичер-Стоу. The First Christmas of New England (Musaicum Christmas Specials)

The First Christmas of New England (Musaicum Christmas Specials)

Table of Contents

Betty's Bright Idea (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Scene I

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Scene VI

The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Chapter I

Chapter II. The First Day on Shore

Chapter III. Christmas Tide in Plymouth Harbor

Chapter IV. Elder Brewster's Christmas Sermon

Deacon Pitkin's Farm (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Chapter I. Miss Diana

Chapter II. Biah Carter

Chapter III. The Shadow

Chapter IV. The Good-By

Chapter V. Mother and Son

Chapter VI. Gone to Sea

Chapter VII. Thanksgiving Again

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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"It looks pretty when the light comes through," he remarked; and Elsie admitted that they might play they were painted windows, with some show of propriety. When everything had been stuck somewhere, Elsie swept the floor, and made up a fire, and put on the tea-kettle, to have everything ready to strike mother favorably on her return.

"Yes," cried the man who was speaking; "to _you;_ to you, who have lost name and place; to you, that nobody cares for; to you, who have been down in the gutter. God has sent you a Saviour to take you up out of the mud and mire, to wash you clean, to give you strength to overcome your sins, and lead you home to his blessed kingdom. This is the glad tidings of great joy that the angels brought on the first Christmas day. Christ was _God's Christmas gift_ to a poor, lost world, and you may have him now, to-day. He may be your own Saviour--yours as much as if there were no other one on earth to be saved. He is looking for you to-day, coming after you, seeking you; he calls you by me. Oh, accept him now!"

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