title: The Outpouring: Jesus in the Feasts of Israel
author:  Elwood McQuaid 
description: This book is a fresh interpretation of the Gospel of John, organizing it on the basis of the feasts of Israel. It is not a commentary, but a thorough discussion of the background and interpretation of John. -- <i>The Pastor's Bookshelf, Stewart Custer</i>
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  # Two Christmas Celebrations
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Theodore Parker
  
  
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  THE TWO CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS,
  
  
  A.D. I. and MDCCCLV.
  
  
  A Christmas Story for MDCCCLVI.
  
  
  By Theodore Parker,
  
  
  Minister of the 28th Congregational Society of Boston.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Two Christmas Celebrations.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  A great many years ago, Augustus Caesar, then Emperor of Rome,
  
  
  ordered his mighty realm to be taxed; and so, in Judea, it is said, men
  
  
  went to the towns where their families belonged, to be registered for
  
  
  assessment. From Nazareth, a little town in the north of Judea, to
  
  
  Bethlehem, another little but more famous town in the south, there went
  
  
  one Joseph, the carpenter, and his wife Mary,—obscure and poor people,
  
  
  both of them, as the story goes. At Bethlehem they lodged in a stable;
  
  
  for there were many persons in the town, and the tave