Books
as Christmas Gifts.--While urging upon all the duty of first bringing their
offerings to God, I would not wholly condemn the practice of making Christmas
and New Year's gifts to our friends. It is right to bestow upon one another
tokens of love and remembrance if we do not in this forget God, our best
Friend. We should make our gifts such as will prove a real benefit to the
receiver. I would recommend such books as will be an aid in understanding the
Word of God, or that will increase our love for its precepts. Provide something
to be read during these long winter evenings...
During the winter evenings, when our children were
young...We made it a
practice to read instructive and interesting books with the Bible, in the
family circle, and our children were always happy as we thus entertained them.
Thus we prevented a restless desire to be out in the street with young
companions, and at the same time cultivated in them a taste for solid
reading.--The Publishing Ministry, p. 345
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