Mr. Savage's Books.

Religious Reconstruction.
These Degenerate Days.
My Creed. 12mo
Poems. 16mo. Full gilt.
Light on the Cloud. 16mo.
Social Problems. 12mo
The Religious Life. 12mo
Belief in God. 12mo
Beliefs about Man. 12mo
Beliefs about the Bible.
The Modern Sphinx. 12mo.
The Morals of Evolution.
Talks about Jesus. 12mo
Man, Woman and Child.
Christianity the Science of Manhood.
The Religion of Evolution.
Life Questions.
Bluffton: A Story of To-day. 12mo
Helps for Daily Living. 12mo
The Signs of the Times.

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Life. 12mo.

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Small 16mo. Flexible

With portrait
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The Minister's Hand-book. For Christenings, Weddings,

and Funerals. Cloth

Sacred Songs for Public Worship. A Hymn and Tune
Book. Edited by M. J. Savage and Howard M. Dow.
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Unitarian Catechism. With an Introduction by E. A. Horton.
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Mr. Savage's weekly sermons are regularly printed in pamphlet form in "Unity Pulpit." Subscription price, for the season, $1.50; single copies, 5 cents.

141 Franklin St., Boston, Mass.

Published weekly.

Price $1.50 a year, or 5 cents single copy.

Entered at the Post-office, Boston, Mass., as second-class mail matter.

CALENDAR, 1891.

This is a publisher's announcement, but we present here a fac-simile of the signature of

as it appears under his portrait on the Calendar card which we have issued, and upon which is mounted a block containing a selection made by Mrs. Dora Bascom Smith from Mr. Savage's writings, for each day in the year.

For personal use or for a Christmas or New Year's gift, it will be found useful and ornamental. Price, 50 cents. Sent postpaid.

GEORGE H. ELLIS, PUBLISHER,

141 Franklin Street, BOSTON.

CHRISTMAS:

ITS ORIGIN, NATURE, AND MEANING.*

CHRISTMAS has come to be the most wide-spread and the most popular of all our holidays; and it is a delight to see at least once in a year how generally people can engage in a conspiracy that has for its end purely and simply the making of other people happy. They have learned the lesson at last that the finest, sweetest, highest joy is that which they see reflected in the eyes of other people. They have learned. the lesson of the solidarity of mankind, that no one can be happy alone, and that the truest happiness for the self is to be found in the forgetting of self and the devotion of all faculties and powers to the ministry that has for its end the joy of somebody else.

It is only recently in our New England that this festival has come to have so general a hold on the people. By the Puritans and by the dissenters generally in Old England it was looked upon with suspicion. Why? Because it had been for a long time a very popular ceremony both in the Church of Rome and in the Church of England; and it was looked upon as savoring dangerously of papistry and conformity with that which they regarded as false in religion and dangerous to the welfare of men. So that it is only within a few years that Christmas has been much observed by the dissenters of Old England or the Puritans of New England. I do not know how it was in Boston at that time; but, when I was a boy down in Maine, Christmas was celebrated as a day on which a verbal wish was expressed. All that I remember about it was that I was very anxious to be * Stenographically reported.