Chapter 6—Christmas Gifts
- Chapter 1—Christmas is Coming
- Chapter 2—To Glorify God, Not Man
- Chapter 3—The Day Not to Be Ignored With Children
- Chapter 4—Substitute Innocent Pleasures for Sinful Amusements
- Chapter 5—A Christmas Tree
- Chapter 6—Christmas Gifts
- Chapter 7—Turn the Current Heavenward
- Chapter 8—Holiday Gifts
- Chapter 9—Diverted From the True Object
- Chapter 10—The Reward of Self-Denial
- Chapter 11—The Holidays
- Chapter 12—Follow Christ’s Example
- Chapter 13—Gift Suggestions
- Chapter 14—Offerings Consecrated to God
- Chapter 15—A Christmas Tree
- Chapter 16—A New Year’s Tree
- Chapter 17—Interesting Holidays
- Chapter 18—The Attractions of the Christian Life
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Chapter 6—Christmas Gifts
Thousands of dollars (in 1884) are needlessly spent every year in gifts to each other. That is means lost to God, lost to His cause. It pleases the vanity, encourages pride, creates all kinds of dissatisfaction, murmuring, and complaints, because perhaps the gifts are not just what was desired, not of the high value wanted or expected.EGWSROCHG 4.1
Christmas is not observed as its name implies it should be. Man has forsaken God in almost everything, and has turned the attention to self. He has left the pure springs of living waters which flow from the throne of God, and hewn out to himself broken cisterns which can hold no water. God gave man a probation that he might be fitted for heaven. He was to look upward to God, who was to be the soul’s adoration, but talent, skill, and inventive powers are all exercised to make self the supreme object of attention. Man has withdrawn his gaze from Deity, and fastened his eyes upon the finite, the earthly, the corruptible.EGWSROCHG 4.2
Satan is in this work to put God out of the mind and interpose the world and self that the eye shall not be single to the glory of God. Satan captivates and ensnares the mind. His infernal wisdom is continually exercised to mold and fashion the material with which he has to deal, to make God the least and the last object of devotion.EGWSROCHG 4.3