The White Christmas, and other merry Christmas plays . CHICAGO T. s. denison & COMPANYPublishers t&^M^ vJf\^ COPYRIGHT, 1917 BY EBEN H. NORRIS * c* x 6 a SEP 26 1917 a © FOREWORD. N these little plays I have tried to bringbefore the public the two dominant charac-teristics of the ideal Christmas season, kind-ness, expressed by good will toward men,and the inward joy wrought by kind acts,and suggested by peace on earth. AsYuletide draws near we like to think of the swell ofChristmas feeling, kindness, peace and good will, thatrises like a mighty tide over the world, filling it withthe
The White Christmas, and other merry Christmas plays . CHICAGO T. s. denison & COMPANYPublishers t&^M^ vJf\^ COPYRIGHT, 1917 BY EBEN H. NORRIS * c* x 6 a SEP 26 1917 a © FOREWORD. N these little plays I have tried to bringbefore the public the two dominant charac-teristics of the ideal Christmas season, kind-ness, expressed by good will toward men,and the inward joy wrought by kind acts,and suggested by peace on earth. AsYuletide draws near we like to think of the swell ofChristmas feeling, kindness, peace and good will, thatrises like a mighty tide over the world, filling it withthe fresh, clean joys and generous impulses that pro-duce the peace that passeth understanding. Some of the plays are filled with the spirit of funand jollity that is always associated with Christmasmerrymaking; in others I have tried to emphasizethe spiritual blessings brought to the children ofmen on that first white Christmas night when Christ,the Lord, was born in Bethlehem, and all the angelssang, Gloria in excelsis, peace on earth, good willtoward men. CHILDREN IN PLAYS. The love of mimetic representation, either as aparticipant or as a spectator, is an ineradicableinstinct of ch
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