turn to the mystical one among the four evangelists who presents but little in the way of individual events. Indeed, we do not find in him anything of Christmas as an external fact; but in his soul there rules an eternal, childlike Christmas joy. And what he gives us, is the spiritual and higher view of our festival. As you know, he commences thus: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.… In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.… And the Word was