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By IW7, however, Christmas had evolved to the point that an Episcopalian bishop was complaining, “The devil has stolen from us . , . Christmas, the day of our spiritual redemption and converted it into a day of worldly festivity, shooting and swearing.*
And by 1876, The Youth's Companion, a popular magazine erf the time, was lamenting the passing of the oldfashioned English Christmas: *We in America have received many, if not most, of
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