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Table of Contents
Introduction: How the Universalists and Unitarians Invented Christmas,
and Background to the Stories……………………………………..……..…page 3
Harriet Martineau’s Account of The First Christmas Tree in America
(1838)…………………………………………………………………………………page 9
Catherine Sedgewick’s “New Year’s Day” (1835)…………………………page 11
Lydia Marie Child’s “The Christ-Child and the Poor Children,”
(1854)………………………………………………………………………………….page 32
Rev. Theodore Parker’s Christmas Story (1856)………………….………page 72
Rev. Samuel McCord Cruthers “A Christmas Parable” (1929)…….....page 99
