The Children's Day

Mary and Baby Jesus by k. grimm

        "I am very glad that the holiday is always recognized as belonging especially to the children. There is a charming Christmas sermon which is a "plea for childhood," which calls Christmas "the young child's festival." It is by Dr. Henry W. Bellows, and I wish I could send it all to all the Readers. It begins by an amusing description of the pilgrimage in our time of the Wise Men at Christmas, who may be seen in every street, with their gifts in their hands, following the star till it comes and stands over the place where the young child is. The young child with his mother draws over each of our homes the star which wins our following and determines our stay.

       And the children, even the baby in arms, return the gifts to the Wise Men. There is nothing so charming, nothing in after years so precious, as the Christmas gifts which the little ones have made with their own hands. The little boy has trained his fat fingers to the needle and the thimble, that he may make a pocket pincushion for his mother, and long after the little boy is called to the Larger Life, that pincushion lies among her dearest treasures. It is so good to have the weeks before Christmas all preoccupied with thoughts for "the others." A blessed preparatory festival!"

Kids version of the Christmas story with help from REMEDY